teacher aides

Instructional support staff

Teacher aides are support staff who assist classroom teachers with instructional and administrative tasks.

They may work with individual students or small groups, help prepare materials, supervise activities, or provide extra attention to students who need it.

Also called teacher's aides, teaching assistants, or paraprofessionals.

The teacher aides helped struggling readers while the teacher led the main lesson.

Opposites
instructional authority

teacher aideshead teachers

Schools' top administrators

principals · professors · department heads · superintendents · school principals

student-educator relationship

teacher aidesstudents

Those receiving instruction

pupils · learners · schoolchildren · tutees · trainees

support vs. leadership role

teacher aidesmentor teachers

Supervisors of teaching interns

team leaders

Family

teacher, aide

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G