Pre-School Teacher Assistant

DUTIES/MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
• Assist teacher in preparing, implementing, and evaluating daily classroom activities.
• Assist teacher in ensuring all children are taught and supervised in a consistent manner.
• Assist the teacher in ensuring that all children are within sight and sound at all times.
• Communicate with children by using effective questioning, listening carefully to children, 
and speaking to children at eye level at all times.
• Ensure playground safety by planning for outdoor time to meet the needs of all children 
including those with special needs and that all children are adequately supervised.
• Take responsibility for the children when the teacher is not present and a substitute is 
present.
• Integrate daily the educational aspects of health, nutrition, and safety.
• Assist the teacher in ensuring all children are signed in and out by the parent daily.
• Share the responsibility of maintaining orderliness and cleanliness in the classroom to 
include but not limited to janitorial duties such as: sterilization of toys, sweeping and 
mopping of floors in bathroom and classrooms, cleaning and sterilizing of toilet and sinks 
with cleaning solutions and sanitizing agents.
• Assist in planning and involving children in the preparation of nutritious foods and cleanup 
at meal time
• Assist with daily personal hygiene of the children such as toileting, hand-washing, and 
resting
• Share the responsibility of providing appropriate care for children with disabilities
• Encourage parents to attend meetings/workshops provided by NPS/UVSO
• When required attend Center activities, contributing relevant Education component 
information
• Attend all staff development, in-service training activities provided by NPS/UVSO
• Implements and participates in planning session for the classroom
• Utilize the resource library for technical assistance
• Maintain positive communication with parents
• Apply safe practices in the performance of duties
• Reporting of unsafe or hazardous working conditions and/or any injury immediately
• Comply with Agency safety standards

• Participate in emergency/fire drills
• Assist in transition/routine plans so they occur in a timely, predictable and onrush manner 
according to each child’s need.
• Responsible for conducting small group activity at the direction of the teacher
• Register in NJCCIS.
• Take anecdotal notes daily so teacher can reference to complete GOLD assessment for each 
child