TEACHER ASSISTANT (Kindergarten) 26-27 School Year
On-siteFayetteville, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Assist a kindergarten teacher with executing instruction, evaluating its effectiveness, and providing one-on-one academic and behavioral support. Monitor student safety, well-being, and attitudes while maintaining classroom discipline, recording time-outs, and assisting with crisis prevention. Conduct short study skills sessions, reinforce instructions, and maintain standardized records, documentation, and daily attendance. Perform general housekeeping, repair school equipment, develop instructional materials, and operate audiovisual tools. Feed and toilet students as needed, grade papers, and file incident reports. Participate in staff development workshops and perform other related tasks as required.
Required Qualifications
- High School diploma
- Minimum of 48 hours of college level coursework
- Minimum GPA of 2.0
- Ability to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, equipment for children with special needs
- Ability to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects
- Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people or things
- Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information
- Ability to receive instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors
- Ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists
- Ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials using prescribed format
- Ability to apply rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form
- Ability to record and deliver information
- Ability to explain procedures
- Ability to follow oral and written instructions
- Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently in standard English
- Ability to utilize mathematical formulas
- Ability to add and subtract
- Ability to utilize decimals and percentages
- Ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape
- Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment
- Ability to handle a variety of office machines
- Ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color
- Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions
- Ability to be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with persons acting under stress
- Ability to talk and hear
- Ability to communicate via telephone
- General knowledge of activities performed by lead teacher
- General knowledge of daily routines of the classroom
- General knowledge of student handbook rules
- General knowledge of procedures to follow in the event of an emergency
- General knowledge of the principles of organization and administration
- Some knowledge of the curriculum for the grade
- Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students
- Ability to motivate students
- Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment
- Ability to perform general clerical duties
- Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom
- Ability to operate common office machines
- Ability to maintain basic files and records
- Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments
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