What You'll Do

  • Assist in bus loading and unloading.
  • Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required.
  • Clean classrooms.
  • Collect money from students for school-related projects.
  • Conduct demonstrations to teach skills, such as sports, dancing, and handicrafts.
  • Discuss assigned duties with classroom teachers to coordinate instructional efforts.
  • Distribute teaching materials, such as textbooks, workbooks, papers, and pencils, to students.
  • Distribute tests and homework assignments and collect them when they are completed.
  • Enforce administration policies and rules governing students.
  • Grade homework and tests, and compute and record results, using answer sheets or electronic marking devices.

Essential Skills

Active Listening 3.75/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.75/5
Reading Comprehension 3.62/5
Speaking 3.62/5
Coordination 3.5/5
Service Orientation 3.5/5
Writing 3.38/5
Critical Thinking 3.38/5
Learning Strategies 3.38/5
Monitoring 3.38/5
Instructing 3.38/5
Time Management 3.25/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to understand the kind of profile this role rewards. It helps you judge whether this career looks like a stronger match than your current role, a nearby move worth exploring, or a broader path to compare more seriously.

Top passions

  • Helper: Supporting people and making a difference matters to you.
  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.

Common styles

Dependability, Optimism, Cooperation, Social Orientation, Empathy

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 3.75/5
Written Comprehension 3.75/5
Oral Expression 3.75/5
Information Ordering 3.62/5
Written Expression 3.5/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.5/5
Speech Recognition 3.5/5
Speech Clarity 3.5/5

Technologies & Tools

Appletree Automate the Schools ATS Blackboard software Children's educational software ClassDojo Email software Flipgrid Google Classroom Google Meet Hand held spell checkers High School Scheduling and Transcript HSST Kahoot! Loom Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software Microsoft Outlook Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Word Padlet ParentSquare

Work Environment & Strengths

Common Strengths for This Career

  • Dependability (High importance: 4.77/5)
  • Optimism (High importance: 4.66/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 4.62/5)
  • Social Orientation (High importance: 4.54/5)
  • Empathy (High importance: 4.47/5)

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How to Become One

This career typically requires vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some specialized training or certification may also be required.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Bilingual Teacher Aide BSIP Instructional Aide (Basic Skills Improvement Program Instructional Aide) Classroom Aide Classroom Assistant Early Childhood Teacher Assistant (EC Teacher Assistant) Education Paraprofessional Educational Assistant Educational Assistant Teacher Educational Technician (Educational Tech) Elementary Paraprofessional Elementary Teacher Assistant Exam Grader (Examination Grader) Exam Proctor (Examination Proctor) Exam Scorer (Examination Scorer) Exceptional Student Education Aide (ESE Aide) Gifted and Talented Student Education Aide Grader Grading Clerk Helper Teacher In School Suspension Aide (ISS Aide) Instructional Aide Instructional Assistant Instructional Paraprofessional Kindergarten Assistant Kindergarten Paraprofessional Kindergartner Helper Learning Support Aide Paper Grader Paraeducator Paraprofessional Paraprofessional Aide Paraprofessional Aide Teacher Paraprofessional Educator Practice Teacher Pre-K Assistant Teacher (Pre-Kindergarten Assistant Teacher) Pre-K Teacher Assistant (Pre-Kindergarten Teacher Assistant) Preschool Aide Preschool Paraprofessional Preschool Teacher Aide Proctor School Paraprofessional School Reading Aide Student Teacher Study Hall Supervisor TA (Teacher Assistant) TA (Teaching Assistant) Teacher Aide Teacher's Aide Teacher's Assistant Test Grader

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