TITLE: Teacher Aide

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
2. Experience working with children preferred.
3. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

REPORTS TO:           Teacher and Building Principal

JOB GOAL:

To assist the teacher in providing well-organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
2. Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
3. Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
4. Help students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
5. Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
6. Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
7. Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
8. Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.
9. Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
10. Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
11. Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
12. Participates in inservice training programs, as assigned.
13. Perform such duties as may be delegated by the superintendent or his/her designee.

TERMS OF ENPLOYMENT-Calendar School Year

EVALUATION:

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's        policy on Evaluation of Support Services Personnel.