classroom aides

Instructional support staff

Classroom aides are support staff who assist teachers in educational settings.

They help with tasks like supervising students, preparing materials, and providing individual attention to children who need extra help.

Also called teacher's aides or paraprofessionals: The classroom aides worked with small reading groups while the teacher led the main lesson.

Opposites
instructional authority

classroom aideslead teacher

Senior educator supervising classroom

head teacher · classroom teacher · professor · department head · master teacher

role in student support

classroom aidesstudents

Those receiving instruction

pupils · learners

instructional authority/role

classroom aideshead teachers

Schools' top administrators

department heads · instructors · professors · lecturers

Family

classroom, classrooms, class, classes, classed, classing, classify, classification, classmate

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