Description
Assist a preschool, elementary, middle, or secondary school teacher with instructional duties. Serve in a position for which a teacher has primary responsibility for the design and implementation of educational programs and services.
- • Assist in bus loading and unloading.
- • Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required.
- • Clean classrooms.
- • Collect money from students for school-related projects.
- • Conduct demonstrations to teach skills, such as sports, dancing, and handicrafts.
- • Discuss assigned duties with classroom teachers to coordinate instructional efforts.
- • Distribute teaching materials, such as textbooks, workbooks, papers, and pencils, to students.
- • Distribute tests and homework assignments and collect them when they are completed.
- • Enforce administration policies and rules governing students.
- • Grade homework and tests, and compute and record results, using answer sheets or electronic marking devices.
- • Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.
- • Laminate teaching materials to increase their durability under repeated use.
- • Maintain computers in classrooms and laboratories, and assist students with hardware and software use.
- • Observe students' performance, and record relevant data to assess progress.
- • Operate and maintain audio-visual equipment.
- • Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their eye levels and perceptual skills.
- • Organize and supervise games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, and social development.
- • Participate in teacher-parent conferences regarding students' progress or problems.
- • Plan, prepare, and develop various teaching aids, such as bibliographies, charts, and graphs.
- • Prepare lesson materials, bulletin board displays, exhibits, equipment, and demonstrations.
- • Present subject matter to students under the direction and guidance of teachers, using lectures, discussions, supervised role-playing methods, or by reading aloud.
- • Requisition and stock teaching materials and supplies.
- • Supervise students in classrooms, halls, cafeterias, school yards, and gymnasiums, or on field trips.
- • Take class attendance and maintain attendance records.
- • Teach social skills to students.
- • Tutor and assist children individually or in small groups to help them master assignments and to reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers.
- • Type, file, and duplicate materials.
- • Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
