Teacher Assistant

TYPICAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assists in the general supervision of students in the halls, restrooms, playgrounds, or any other area of the school campus
• Administers, scores, and records, such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students
• Works with individual students or groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher
• Aids in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher
• Affords assistance with the supervision of students as assigned
• Affords assistance with planning and conducting field trips
• Affords assistance with materials preparation and in the instructional planning process
• Attends parent-teacher conferences unless directed otherwise
• Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date
• Affords assistance with group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling
• Affords assistance in the library or media center as needed
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, supervises testing, and makes up work as assigned by the teacher
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problems or special information about an individual student
• 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 a fully licensed teacher
• May serve in other approved capacities such as, but not limited to: ISS Monitor, Lab Assistant
• Supports the Hattiesburg Public School District Mission, Vision, and Strategic Plan

REPORTS TO

Principal and Supervising Teacher