What Are the Duties of a Teacher's Aide?
Teachers' aides play an integral part in the education system. Many school districts employ teachers' aides to assist lower elementary teachers and special education teachers. Requirements to become a teacher's aide vary by school district, but for the most part a teacher's aide must have at least a high school diploma, and in many places two years of college is desired as well.
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Lesson Preparation
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Classroom teachers need teachers' aides to help prepare for lessons every day. Part of this preparation involves making numerous copies of worksheets that are needed to reinforce the lessons being taught. Many schools have a limited supply of consumable workbooks, so worksheets are needed to practice basic reading and math skills.
Student Discipline
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Teachers' aides will also be expected to help the classroom teacher maintain appropriate classroom discipline. Students will learn to follow directions and receive reprimands from both the classroom teacher and the teacher's aid.
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Teaching Students
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In many lower elementary classrooms, schools encourage the use of learning centers and small-group instruction. Teachers' aides will teach students in centers or small groups. The classroom teacher will be responsible for planning what skill will be taught, and then the teacher's aid will teach according to the classroom teacher's plans.
Other Duties
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Teachers' aides are expected to help the classroom teacher with anything that needs to be done in the classroom. This may include filing, checking student homework folders, sending notes home with students, helping with bulletin board decorations.
Special Education Teacher's Aides
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Teachers' aides who work with special education teachers may have other duties in addition to the ones mentioned above. Teachers aides who work with severely disabled children may have to help with feeding and diapering the children.
Exempted From Some Duties
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Generally, teachers' aides do not record grades in the grade book and do not conduct conference with parents.
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Comments
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I worked with special need students, In the Georgetown ISD I got laid off , in March right before spring break, It has been very hard trying to find a job, but I'am going to keep my head up , because I have a wonderful man be hind me backing me up every step of the way,
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D Moore
May 21, 2009
I asked my son's kindergarten teacher what her teachers aids do and she got all huffy puffy with me .... I think, because they aren't doing what they're supposed to. Thank you for your informative article, it was just what I was looking for! 5*
