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Franklin County Schools

Educational Assistant

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A Teacher Assistant assists classroom teachers by providing extra individual attention and instruction to students. Helps teachers with recordkeeping, preparation for lessons and activities and supervising students. May work with special education students, or work in a school library or computer lab; may be called teacher aide or paraprofessional.

$34,086 / year median in Tennessee

+10% projected growth

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Job Description

1. Work with individual students or small groups of students, as directed, to reinforce learning of material or skills; 2. Administer, score, and record such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students; 3. Operate and care for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes; 4. Distribute and collect workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction; 5. Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips; 6. Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher; 7. Assume responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job; 8. Check and record attendance; 9. Arrange bulletin boards; 10. Type and duplicate tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials; 11. Assist in supervising the children in lunchroom, playground, and loading the bus; 12. Assist the teacher in assimilating material for class displays; and 13. Perform other duties as assigned.