Elementary Teacher Assistant — Classroom Support Pro

Newport Elementary School; Newport (NC); On-site; USD 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Newport Elementary School in Newport, North Carolina is seeking a Teacher Assistant to support the instructional program and help create a well-organized classroom. This position starts immediately and reports to the teacher.

Responsibilities include assisting with individual and small-group instruction, preparing materials, supervising students during activities, and maintaining confidentiality of student information.

Qualifications

• Associates degree or a minimum of 48 semester college credit hours.
• NC License to drive a school bus or ability to get one.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Administers 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 learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Helps students master 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.
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date.
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
• Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communications with students.
• Assists students in the library or media center.
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers and supervises testing and make up work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Checks and records student attendance.
• Collects and records collection of money.
• Helps students with their clothing.
• Assists with lunch, snack and cleanup routines.
• Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in absence of the regular teacher.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participates in professional development programs, as assigned.
• Must be able to obtain a School Bus Drivers License and drive a school bus when requested.

Education

Associates degree or a minimum of 48 semester college credit hours

Job description

Newport Elementary School in Newport, North Carolina is seeking a Teacher Assistant to support the instructional program and help create a well-organized classroom. This position starts immediately and reports to the teacher.

Responsibilities include assisting with individual and small-group instruction, preparing materials, supervising students during activities, and maintaining confidentiality of student information.