McDonald Elementary School - Teaching Assistant (full time w / benefits)

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.