High school diploma or equivalent.

Experience working with children desired.

Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.

Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.

Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests and abilities.

Guides independent study, enrichment work, and/or remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.

Checks notebooks, corrects papers and supervises testing and makeup work, as assigned by the teacher.

Assists with such large group and individual activities as drill work, reading aloud, listens to students read, and story telling.

Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.

Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.

Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully certified teachers.

Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.

Monitors and supervises the playground and/or lunch room.

Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date.

Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.

Performs such other tasks as may be assigned by the teacher or principal.