Classroom Aide-PT

Job Description

Teacher or Classroom aides provide support for full-time teachers, helping with clerical work and classroom activities. This can involve providing individual attention to students in need of extra assistance or monitoring students while the teacher is out. A teacher's aide's job is to assist a teacher and reinforce the instruction taught in the classroom to students.

REPORTS TO

Principal

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Discuss assigned duties with classroom teachers in order to coordinate instructional efforts.
• Prepare lesson materials, bulletin board displays, exhibits, equipment, and demonstrations.
• Present subject matter to students under the direction and guidance of teachers, using lectures, discussions, or supervised role-playing methods.
• Tutor and assist children individually or in small groups in order to help them master assignments and to reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers.
• Supervise students in classrooms, halls, cafeterias, school yards, and gymnasiums, or on field trips.
• Conduct demonstrations to teach such skills as sports, dancing, and handicrafts.
• Distribute teaching materials such as textbooks, workbooks, papers, and pencils to students.
• Distribute tests and homework assignments, and collect them when they are completed.
• Enforce administration policies and rules governing students.
• Grade homework and tests, and compute and record results, using answer sheets or electronic marking devices.
• Observe students' performance, and record relevant data to assess progress.
• Organize and label materials, and display students’ work in a manner appropriate for their eye levels and perceptual skills.
• Organize and supervise games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, and social development.
• Plan, prepare, and develop various teaching aids such as bibliographies, charts, and graphs.
• Provide extra assistance to students with special needs, such as non-English-speaking students or those with physical and mental disabilities.
• Take class attendance, and maintain attendance records.
• Absorb money from students for school-related projects.
• Laminate teaching materials to increase their durability under repeated use.
• Maintain computers in classrooms and laboratories, and assist students with hardware and software use.
• Monitor classroom viewing of live or recorded courses transmitted by communication satellites.
• Operate and maintain audiovisual equipment.
• Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities such as restrooms.
• Requisition and stock teaching materials and supplies.
• Type, file, and duplicate materials.
• Use computers, audiovisual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.

Education Requirements

• Minimum GED or a high school diploma and some on-the-job training.
• Prefers an associate's degree or bachelor's degree in education or a related field.
• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Job training is typically done by the employer who helps a new teacher's aide understand the rules and operations of the workplace.
• Teacher's aides must know the appropriate responses when dealing with children and how to properly show educational materials to the classroom.
• Additionally, learning to follow the instructions of a teacher is extremely important.

Physical Abilities

• Ability to see at normal distance.
• Hear normal conversations and sounds.
• Physical ability to bend, squat, sit on floor, skip, run, and climb stairs, as part of daily center activities.
• Able to crouch to a child’s height, maintain eye contact at the child’s level, sit on the floor, and stand tall enough to reach children on the highest piece of equipment.
• Ability to safely lift or assist children weighing up to 40 pounds in emergency situations only.
• Ability to reach a child 30 feet away within 30 seconds without danger to the staff person’s health.
• Ability to effectively use hands and fingers to fill out paper work.

Environmental Conditions

• May be required to work outside.
• Potential for exposure to blood-borne pathogens and communicable diseases.