Teacher Assistants
Perform duties that are instructional in nature or deliver direct services to students or parents. Serve in a position for which a teacher has ultimate responsibility for the design and implementation of educational programs and services.
Also called: Instructional Assistant, Paraeducator, Paraprofessional, Teacher Assistant
Knowledge:
- teaching and course design
- public safety and security
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
- teaching people how to do something
- understanding people's reactions
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- notice when problems happen
- order or arrange things
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Self Control
- Concern for Others
- Integrity
- Cooperation
- Stress Tolerance
Technology:
Data base user interface and query software
- Data entry software
- Special Education Student Information System SESIS
Computer based training software
- Children's educational software
- Text to speech software
Device drivers or system software
- Screen magnification software
- Screen reader software
Education:
certificate after high school
