Secondary Teaching Assistant

1. Teaching and Learning
• Provide support for students inside and outside the classrooms, to enable them to fully participate in learning activities.
• Reinforcing lessons and providing students assistance as they complete classwork. This might include small group or one-on-one help.
• Assisting the teacher with standard housekeeping tasks like taking attendance, collecting homework, and recording grades.
• Delivering interventions to individual students or small groups withdrawn from lessons.
• Modify learning resources to support students with learning support needs.
• Supporting the social and emotional development of pupils, reporting any issues when required.
• Serving as a sounding board and assisting teachers as they create lessons and classroom policies.
• Helping meet the needs of Learning Support students by making modifications to lessons as needed. This might include doing things like reading tests out loud and providing additional time outside of class for students to finish assessments.
• Provide regular feedback to teachers on pupils' progress.
• Assist in organising educational activities such as trips, assemblies, events, examination invigilation, etc.
2. Administrative duties
1. Prepare and present displays of students' work
2. Support class teachers in photocopying, material developing and other tasks in order to support teaching
3. Undertake other duties from time to time as the Head Teacher requires (school / bus / club / summer duties etc,)
4. Assist in organising Parents' Meetings e.g. arranging appointments, translating
5. Ensure there are sufficient resources and equipment in the classroom for the activities
3. Standards and quality assurance
1. Support the aims and ethos of the school
2. Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality and attendance
3. Attend team and staff meetings
4. Be proactive in matters relating to health and safety