Korean Speaking Teaching Assitant

Position: Korean Speaking TA
Reports to: Head of Language Support
Working hours: From 8.00AM to 5.00PM, Monday through Friday
Expected starting date: Aug, 2025
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications through the school recruitment portal
JOB PURPOSE:
Korean-speaking Teaching Assistant will work in partnership with the class teacher to support the delivery of high-quality education and care to children aged 5-11 years old, especially for Korean students and parents. The role will involve providing support to the class teacher in the preparation and delivery of lessons and supporting individual children or small groups of children with their learning and development.
MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
1. SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS
Helping in lessons
- Support students to understand lessons and complete learning tasks.
- Support students to participate in lessons using the Vietnamese language.
- Give feedback to students and guide them in how to correct errors.
- Prepare Korean & English vocabulary translations and additional support materials for students.
- Work with students independently and in small groups.
Support
- Make titles and backgrounds for display.
- Collect and deliver photocopying.
- Prepare equipment for lessons such as notebooks, pens, etc.
- Perform other duties given by the leadership team.
- Take photos for special events in the department
- Develop teaching resources (Korean &English grammar, vocabulary)
- Provide live translations during events to support teacher/parent communication.
- Mark, record and report vocab/grammar tests
- Suggest strategies to teachers that will assist students to meet learning objectives.
Pastoral Care
- Positively manage students' behaviour within the classroom and address behavioural issues appropriately, ensuring that all students are kept safe, and accidents are minimized.
- Establish positive, productive working relationships with students: Be consistent and fair; Do not show favoritism or make negative comments;
- Support children when emotional and upset in an appropriate way. Excessive bodily contact with pupils, such as kissing or cuddling, should be avoided. However, in Early Years, appropriate care may involve physically comforting a distressed child. This should only occur in an open space, in full view of colleagues and should not be more than is necessary to sooth an upset child.
- Raise self-esteem of students: Address pupils in the same way; Use positive comments; encourage independence appropriate to age and maturity.
- Assist students in handling their personal needs including toileting and washing and help them in eating lunch or snacks.
- Observe for any signs of mistreatment: emotional or physical abuse or neglect and report to the lead teacher
Health and Safety
- Observe students to detect signs of discomfort or distress, illness or injury and alert lead teacher immediately
- Never leave a child/class on their own in a room. If taking children to the nurse- leave them there and come straight back up.
- No phones switched on in the classroom and no Facebook in school hours. Only use phones in staffroom. No negative comments on FB about school; cannot be friends with parents or students; No photos of children shall be put on FB (or any other online social media site). Personal phone is not to be used for taking photos of the children.
2. SUPPORT FOR THE TEACHER
- Familiarize with the curriculum. Read the teacher's lesson plans, curriculum books, syllabus, etc. Design and produce displays with minimal supervision.
- Provide regular feedback to teachers on pupil achievement, progress and problems.
- Promote good pupil behavior, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents and reporting in line with school policy.
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, equal opportunities, health and safety, security, confidentiality data protection and reporting all concerns to the appropriate person.
3. SUPPORT FOR PARENTS
- Establish constructive relationships with parents/careers.
- Listen for any negative or inappropriate comments and report these to the teacher
4. SUPPORT FOR THE SCHOOL
- Attend staff meetings, and other school events as deemed appropriate by the Head Teacher. Participate in training, other learning activities and performance development as required.
- Share and contribute to ideas within the school.
- Contribute to the overall ethos /work/aims of the team and school
5. SUPPORT FOR THE CURRICULUM
- Be involved in an evaluation process and in-service training aimed at improving your performance in your role
- Deliver learning activities to students within agreed system of supervision, adjusting activities according to student response/ needs.
- Use ICT effectively to support learning activities and develop students' competence and independence in its use.