teacher aide
Instructor's support staff
A teacher aide assists a classroom teacher with instructional and administrative tasks—preparing materials, supervising students, providing individual attention to struggling learners.
The role is sometimes called a paraprofessional or teacher's assistant.
Teacher aides typically work under a certified teacher's direction: The teacher aide helped students with their reading while the teacher worked with another group.
- classroomEducational instruction space
- classroom managementMaintaining order while teaching
- assistantOne who aids another
- helperOne who aids another
- paraprofessionalTrained aide to professionals
support · students · grading · tutoring · copying · laminating · bulletin board · arts and crafts · recess · hall pass · lunchroom · special education · reading groups · story time · learning differences · patience · scissors · glue sticks
- elementary schoolclassroom, student, reading skills, pupil, writing skills
- assistantsassistant, helper, PA, executive assistant, EA
- school staffprincipal, professor, librarian, counselor, instructor
- aidesparaprofessional, classroom helper, lab assistant, learning support, lunch monitor
- special educationspecial education, special ed, special needs, IEP, IEPs
- preschoolpreschool, nursery school, pre-K, pre-k, play-based
teacher aidelead teacher
Senior educator supervising classroom
head teacher · principal · school administrator · department head · superintendent
teacher aidesupervisor
One who directs workers
manager · director · team leader · department chair · executive
teacher, aide, teach, teaches, taught, teaching, teachers, teachable, unteachable