

Other office duties and miscellaneous projects as needed. Occasional event set up and assistance required along with cleanup of event, and weekly cleaning of the office bay.


Ordering and maintaining office supplies prepares coffee daily and maintains of supplies of the kitchenette. Main job duties include answering the multi-line phone- providing support and directing calls as needed checks, logs and delivers mail maintaining office files-types, files and organizes as needed. to another teacher who didn’t have one and needed help during that period.The College of Education Dean’s Office is seeking student assistants to help with the daily and ongoing tasks associated with running the office. Helping my coworkers – oftentimes one of us would loan out our T.A.is strong in the subject material, like when I had an old AP Bio student as a T.A. Helping to provide support for students during class – this works if the T.A.Taking inventory of the chemical supply room.Organizing your classroom and sorting through supplies.I guarantee they could digitize a resource for me in 1/10th of the time it would take me!! Digitizing resources – I can humbly say that my students know 23948230948234x more about technology than I do.Testing out labs and activities I found to use in class – if there weren’t safety concerns, of course!.Updating my class website – where I wrote a post every day tracking our agenda for parents and absent students.you should basically never be seeing the copy room again!! Making copies of my student packets – basically everything but tests! If you have a T.A.Here is a list of a few tasks I have used mine for: There are SO MANY THINGS you can use a T.A. They have a great resume booster – especially if they are interested in a career in education!.They can earn volunteer hours during school (if they aren’t also earning credit hours for the course – more on that in a bit).This relationship can lead to that teacher writing a really detailed and specific recommendation for future jobs and college applications.They have an opportunity to build a close relationship with a teacher.They get a period that feels like a break in their schedule (an entire class they don’t have to do homework for or study for!!).The amount of total T.A.s is actually limited! There are so many ways students benefit from having the T.A.

actually grew to be an honor and a privilege – because there were only so many teachers in the school. Either way, you get them once a day and they can help you with anything and everything. It could also be an AP student that wants a little break in their schedule. These can be students that have an interest in becoming a teacher one day and want to see what it is like behind the scenes. Who would want to even be a high school T.A.? The student’s school counselor adds it to their schedule like they would any elective normally. for a specific teacher and if a teacher has multiple applicants, they can then select from those applications. program, it is treated as a 0-credit elective for the students on their schedule and is essentially like them having a study hall (T.A.s can use any remaining class time with you to study or work on assignments for another class.) Students request to be a T.A. It can be done formally or entirely informally!įrom my experience, when set up as a formal T.A. There are a LOT of different ways a high school T.A. In my third year teaching high school, I actually got my own teacher’s aide, and ended up having one every year for four years after that! I cannot tell you enough how helpful it was to know that one period a day I would have an extra set of hands – especially since I only had 50-minutes of planning every day and 5 preps. I made her copies, helped set up math manipulatives, and graded multiple-choice tests anonymously. back when I was in high school – about a century ago! I was actually a T.A. I first heard about being a high school T.A. They can do any tasks you deem helpful, and any remaining time in the class period can be used to work on homework or study. This is a student that will have a class period in their daily schedule where they are your assistant for that entire period.
