Skills Elementary School Teacher's Aide in the Laurentides Region

Find out what skills you typically need to work as an elementary school teacher's aide in Canada. These skills are applicable to all Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants (NOC 43100).

Tasks

  • Help students individually or in small groups with assignments and reinforce learning and retention concepts under the supervision of classroom teacher
  • Monitor students during recess and lunch hour
  • Assist students with integration into the classroom and school setting
  • Assist with classroom inventory
  • Accompany and supervise students during activities in school gymnasiums, laboratories, libraries, resource centres and on field trips
  • Monitor and report student progress to classroom teacher
  • Assist in school library or office and perform other duties assigned by school principal
  • Assist teacher in the operation of projectors, tape recorders and other audio-visual or electronic equipment
  • Assist students with special needs using techniques such as sign language, braille and remedial programs

Skills and Knowledge Checklist

The following skills and knowledge are usually required in this occupation.

Skills

Handling Goods and Materials

Working with goods and materials manually or with machines.

Building

Working with materials to construct, renovate and maintain structures.

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles

Working with and/or repairing vehicles, machinery or stationary equipment.

Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery

Working with technical equipment, instruments, machinery and other systems.

Service and Care Help - Service and Care
  • Tending to Daily Needs
  • Serving Others
  • Protecting and Enforcing

Service and Care

Taking care of the needs of people and animals.

Tending to Daily Needs
Responding to the personal care needs of people or animals.
Serving Others
Assisting the public by answering questions, making recommendations, and providing information or support in response to requests.
Protecting and Enforcing
Responding to public safety and security needs and ensuring compliance to rules, standards or laws.
Communication Help - Communication
  • Teaching and Training

Communication

Using communication skills to share information, advise and influence.

Teaching and Training
Facilitating the acquisition of new knowledge and skills.

Creative Expression

Using various materials and formats to create work that is intended to be artistically satisfying, entertaining, instructive or functional.

Information Handling Help - Information Handling
  • Processing Information

Information Handling

Creating and using systems for the storage and retrieval of knowledge and data.

Processing Information
Inputting, recording, transcribing and updating data using electronic or manual information systems.
Analysis Help - Analysis
  • Analyzing Information

Analysis

Examining and evaluating information.

Analyzing Information
Examining data or facts to determine appropriate actions or recommendations.

Management

Taking charge of the direction and resources of an organization.

Knowledge

Manufacturing and Production

Knowledge related to the delivery of a series of operations in large-scale production or processing of goods or crops, according to safety and quality standards.

Communications and Transportation

Knowledge related to the provision and transmission of systems of communication and entertainment and the delivery of consumer goods or services.

Law and Public Safety

Knowledge related to the provision and enforcement of laws and regulations that safeguard the effective functioning of a democratic society.

Social Sciences and Arts Help - Social Sciences and Arts
  • Psychology
  • Languages Foreign

Social Sciences and Arts

Knowledge related to culture, origins and patterns of human activity, and the development and expression of thought.

Psychology
Knowledge of principles, methods and practices for studying mental processes and behaviour and their underlying physiology and neurology, and for assessment and treatment of psychological disorders.
Languages Foreign
Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of grammar and composition and pronunciation.
Education and Training Help - Education and Training
  • Teaching and Instruction

Education and Training

Knowledge related to the theory and practice of teaching, and the methods used in the design, delivery and evaluation of the provision of knowledge or information.

Teaching and Instruction
Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum design, teaching and instructional methods for training individuals and groups.
Health Services Help - Health Services
  • Therapy and Counselling

Health Services

Knowledge related to the provision of medical science and technology for the physical and mental well-being of others.

Therapy and Counselling
Knowledge of principles and practices for diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and counselling.

Mathematics and Science

Knowledge related to specialized areas of research such as measurement, living organisms, physical substances, and properties and relationships of quantity, space, and matter.

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge related to the design, building, use or repair of machinery, equipment, systems, and structures.

Business, Finance and Management

Knowledge related to organization and control of business activities.

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