Teaching Assistant

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)

Morning Duty (Primary)

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

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