• Job Description

  Req#: 1370

  Job Description

  Teacher Assistant

  Qualification:

  • Two years of college or Associate Degree or other requirements as deemed necessary by Every Student Succeeds Act.

  Reports To: Superintendent of Education, the Deputy Superintendent, Principal, Assistant Principal, Supervising Teacher, and other designated supervisor.

  Job Goal: To assist the classroom teacher in preparing classroom activities and materials and to provide care in meeting the needs of the students.

  Professional Responsibilities

  • Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher
  • Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers
  • Participates in in-service training programs as assigned
  • Follows school board policy and school rules and regulations

  Classroom Management

  • Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
  • Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction
  • Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up-to-date
  • Checks and records student attendance
  • Collects and records collection of money
  • Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines
  • Assists with wash-up and toilet routines
  • Assists teacher in maintaining neat work and study areas
  • Collects and displays suitable material for educational displays

  Student Support and Supervision

  • Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher
  • Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story-telling
  • Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students
  • Assists students in the library or media center
  • Helps students with their clothing
  • Fosters good eating habits and table manners in children
  • Assists with the supervision of children during regular play periods
  • Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher

  Teacher Support

  • Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students
  • Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing materials or skills
  • Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher
  • Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher
  • Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about individual students
  • Participates in daily and long-range lesson and classroom activity planning
  • Performs others duties as assigned by the Principal, Assistant Principal, Supervising Teacher, Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and other supervisor

  Terms of Employment: Salary and work year 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 Support Services Personnel.

• About the company

  The Greenville Public School District is a public school district based in Greenville, Mississippi.

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