Teachers Assistant job

I am a primary school teacher. I sometimes have a teaching assistant working in my classroom. Her job is to help the children learn. She will listen to children read either individually or in a small group. She will sit in lesson time helping a group of children, this is often those with special educational needs. She sometimes helps with art and craft activities. Once I had a teaching assistant that was wonderful with display work. I notice that teaching assistants get pay slip at the same time as the teachers. I imagine they are a paid a yearly salary that is paid every month. So it will pay during the school holidays. Many teaching assistants work part time, like mornings only for example. The pay is quite low but the work is varied so it is interesting and seeing the children learn is rewarding.

I haven't done this before, but between my father actively teaching for over 40 yrs. and actively sub-teaching now, and an ex gf who was a T.A. while working on her minor of bi-lingual education, I might be able to help, smile. The first thing is your duties will change from district to dist. or company to company. A lot depends on how many teachers they have for the class sizes and the work ethics of the teacher. In some areas you may simply be passing out class supplies, and helping some students with problems, at other schools you may have some of the same duties of a teacher depending how understaffed they are. Remember, the U.S. is so understaffed and underpaying its educators so much, that you no longer have to go to college to be a teacher. You can simply have a 4yr. degree and take an exam, I think at on point a company called "Teachers for America was doing this". You really have to talk to the school to see what they expect. as far as the money part, you will probably get paid more being a Night Group Youth supervisor for your local Probation Dept.