Job Details
General Teaching assistant
- Scores and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
- Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce leaning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
- Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
- Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work, as assigned by the teacher.
- Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.
- Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
- Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
- Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
- Assists the teacher in class preparation and record keeping.
- Supervises students in non-instructional activities such as lunch, free play, and rest time.
- Participates in in-service training programs as assigned.
Performs other duties as assigned.