Teacher Assistant, Kindergarten

Roles And Responsibilities

• Provides individual and group instruction on activities as instructed
• Demonstrates and assists students with skill development such as ABC sequencing, visual discrimination, word rhyming, and letter-number matching
• Maintains art project programs including preparing the materials and cleaning up
• Implements behavior modification plans and provides discipline in the absence of the teacher
• Supervises learning centers and participates in classroom activities
• Makes arrangements for field trips
• Performs clerical tasks such as filing and photocopying
• Practices individual speech sounds, vocabulary, and syntax objectives with students
• Reads to students and asks questions to stimulate language development
• Presents language activities involving expressive and receptive areas of development

Qualifications

• Graduation from high school and experience as a teacher aide or working with children
• Ability to work under the supervision of the teacher, including following lesson plans prepared by teachers
• Ability to record data and verbally describe student progress and difficulties
• Ability to work effectively with individual children and small groups, meeting the instructional objectives as established by the teacher
• Ability to take initiative in recognizing an immediate need and meeting it without specific instructions
• Physical ability to lift, position, and assist students as required
• Ability to learn to perform individual medical procedures when necessary
• Ability to operate standard office equipment and to learn to operate video equipment
• Good human relations and communications skills; patience and flexibility

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly talking, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word
• The employee must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly
• The employee must possess normal cognitive abilities including the ability to learn, recall and apply certain practices and policies
• Frequently sitting and/or remaining in a stationary position for long periods of time
• Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects