Exceptional Education Teacher Assistant

West Bolivar Consolidated School District

Job Description

Teacher Assistant

Qualifications:  

1.   Two years of college or Associate Degree

2.  Pass score on work-keys

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

• Follow school board policy and rules and regulations.
• Administer, score, and record such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommend for individual students.
• Work with individual students or small group of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing materials or skills.
• Operate and care for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Help student master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
• Distribute and collect workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
• Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Keep bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up-to-date.
• Assist with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story-telling
• Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Assist students in the library or media center.
• Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make-up work as assigned by the teacher.
• Check and record student attendance.
• Collect and record collection of money.
• Help students with their clothing.
• Assist with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
• Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about individual students.
• Serve as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participate in in-service training programs as assigned.
• Participate in daily and long-range lesson and classroom activity planning.
• Foster good eating habits and table manners in children.
• Assist teacher in maintaining neat work and study areas.
• Assist with supervision of children during regular play periods.
• Collects and displays suitable material for educational displays.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the teacher, Principal, Assistant Principal, and Superintendent.

Terms of Employment:  Salary and work schedule will be established by the board.

Evaluation:  Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on evaluation of personnel.