LTA Expectations (Roles and Responsibles)
The job scope of the Teacher Assistant (TA) is as follows:
- The LTA is to carry out their specific scope as assigned by the school
- The three key areas are Learning Support, Special Programmes and Resource Management.
- The LTAs function as a Teacher aid/co-teacher in areas such as care for the children, after-school activities, morning/recess/lunch duties, activities and school events.
Students’ well-being
- Provide Care
- Be Attentive to the needs of the child, develop the child, not do everything for them.
- Need to guide them first as some children are more independent than others.
- Guide the children in learning and independent skills
- Conflict management
Morning Duty (Preschool)
- Assemble at the front gate to receive the children.
- Check overall well-being of the children
- Check their attire/personal grooming
Morning Duty (Primary)
- Assemble at the front gate/assembly area to receive the children.
- Ensure children go to the toilet before 8.15 am
- Check their attire/personal grooming
- Ensure children in class on time
- Lining up/seated properly at all times
During Lessons
- Assist the teachers with the work given to the children
- Assist / guide children when worksheets are being completed (not give them the answers but guide them to finding the answer) or when doing classwork
- Be polite and not to question the teachers in front of the children
- Oversee student movement between classes (e.g. mandarin and PE)
- Ensure students to be quiet, so that they do not disturb other classes. Ask the teacher to help if the children do not listen to you.
- Be in time for the next lesson (avoid releasing the children too early or too late)
- If not sure, always clarify with the teachers
- Speak to Head of School/Principal if not sure
Toileting
- Oversee student toilet routine and handwashing
- Check that children to wipe and clean themselves well, assist the children if necessary
- Ensure children go in pairs for safety reasons.
Morning Snack/Lunch Time
- Ensure children wash their hands
- Guide the children to go to the toilet
- Teach them to dry themselves up
- Canteen and outdoor play duties – need to be vigilant at all times
- One LTA has break time 11 to 12 and the other from 1 to 2 pm or as long as there is one LTA in class at any point in time.
Sick Child
- Take sick/unwell students to the school nurse
- If seizure, follow SOP
- Do not allow children to go to sick bay alone
End of Day
- Daily cleaning up and tidying up of the classroom, materials and school manipulatives/toys and preparation of materials/resources
- Oversee that all students take their phonics words, homework books and reading books home everyday – teachers to train group leaders to assist the TAs.
- TAs to assist teachers in monitoring the reading levels of the children.
- Check & get students to tidy their lockers before the end of the day
- Check student stationery daily – fetch more stationery from admin if necessary, pencils etc to ensure that each student does not run out of stationery etc.
- Collect stationery and Art supplies for the class from Admin.
- Water bottles to go home daily (teachers to reinforce with the children, LTAs to assist in monitoring).
- School caps to go home every Friday for washing LTAs to assist in monitoring.
- LTAs to ensure that the children are fetched correctly by the right parents at all times, assist the security during pick up time.
Support for Teachers
- photocopy, laminate, help file worksheets in students’ files (teach older children to file themselves with your monitoring).
- Basic computer skills – find theme related pictures and print the same if asked to do so by the teacher.
- Preparation for learning resources
Others
- Ensure all children’s items are labelled.
- Always check before deciding to do anything different from the instructions given to you.
Academic
Learning support to students
Co-teach with teachers (when appropriate, case by case)
Attitude
- Open to feedback
- Willing to learn
- Willing to contribute
- Willing to ask questions
- Positive and not being calculative
- Have initiative to assist/help the teachers and colleagues
Training to be given
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