Teacher Assistant

Overview

Teacher Assistant-Arabic

Job Description

Type : Permanent

Department : Academic

Line Manager : Head of Arabic

Functional Reporting : N / A

Rationale

The purpose of the role of Teacher Assistant-Arabic is to provide support to the students and the class teachers of the school inside and outside of the classroom. They assist the teacher in providing in class support for children with their work, along with other tasks of a more general nature.

Responsibilities

• Contributes appropriately with lesson planning and assessment processes including the organization and management of books / files for individual children.
• Supporting children across the curriculum, often with a particular focus on maths, reading and writing
• Giving extra help to children with special needs or those for whom English is not their first language
• Helping to develop programmes of learning activities and adapting appropriate materials
• Motivating and encouraging pupils
• Assisting with marking and correcting work
• Attending meetings and reviews
• Helping with school events, trips and activities
• Prepares materials or equipment for class lessons, group work or for individual children.
• Leads & assists groups of children or individuals with their tasks.
• Reads stories to groups of children.
• Prepares any ICT equipment (for example : computers, iPad, digital camera, DVD, Bee Bot, etc.).
• Accompanies children on visits.
• Comforts young distressed and vulnerable children in accordance with safeguarding procedures.
• Prepares Art and Craft materials and / or tidy them away.
• Mounts and displays children’s work appropriately.
• Supervises children using the cloakroom (toilet) / playtimes / start time and home times especially at transition times.
• Labels and stores equipment appropriately.
• Laminates and / or photocopy materials / resources.
• Take part, on a daily basis, in the Rota which provides supervision in the playground at playtimes and supervise at transition times especially at start time and home time
• Maintains confidentiality about personal details revealed by the children
• Reports incidents to Teacher and or Head of Early Years in accordance with the Safeguarding Policy
• Maintains and promotes the School’s professional reputation.

Health and Safety

Position Requirements

Competencies

Required Skills and Knowledge

Attributes

The school will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition. This job description is current at the date shown, but, in consultation with you, may be changed by the Principal to reflect or anticipate changes in the job commensurate with the grade and job title.

Compliance and Notes

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