At St. Joseph School you will need these skills and experience to thrive in your job:
• An ability to build good working relationships with both students, parents and your teacher
• Good organizational skills
• Being proactive, flexible, and creative
• Enjoy working with children, patience, and sense of humor
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Ability to manage groups of students and deal with challenging behavior
• Assist the teacher in getting the classroom ready for lessons
• Listening to children read or reading to them, leading reading groups
• Helping children who need extra support to complete tasks
• Helping your teacher to plan learning activities and complete records
• Supporting teachers in managing class behavior
• Supervising group activities or working with students one-to-one
• Looking after children who are upset or who need redirecting/refocusing to attend the lesson
• Clearing away materials and equipment after lessons
• Collaborate with the teacher in providing control and supervision in buildings and on school grounds
• Supervises the yard during recess, lunch time and traffic
• Helping with outings
• Taking part in training and/or professional development
• Carrying out administrative tasks at the direction of your teacher and administration
• Supervise a class for a teacher who is off sick or undertaking training.