Learning Support Assistant

With very young children or special care children, assistants attend to personal needs. They help the children take medications regularly and attend to student's personal hygiene (including taking them to the bathroom). They assist with eating and facilitate mobility, if necessary. Assisting with medication requires following LEA (Local Education Agency/Authority ) and school policies.

The interviewer may ask about your previous job experience and your knowledge. This will enable the interviewer to understand your basic professional background and whether you would be able to handle the job or not. Although your experience may not be directly related, focus on your ability to follow directions, get tasks done quickly, attention to detail, etc.; skills required in any job.

The interviewer will ask about any difficult situations in your last job, related to work, which were solved by you by amicable means. This will prove to the interviewer whether you have any people skills. Make a list of such occurrences. Consult with a knowledgeable friend, or professor. Preferably someone who's working! Select the best and prepare to present the anecdote briefly, and succinctly.

To gauge your seriousness of the individual, the interviewer may ask why you are actually seeking the job.

Therefore, the interviewer will first begin to gauge whether the individual is actually serious about the job or not. This can be asked via the simple question.

Why do you need the job, or why should we give you a job? Express your interest in the field of education and your expectation to persevere for at least a semester. You may want to include your financial needs, but do not over emphasize this.

These responsibilities are typically administrative. Assistants report to teachers on class behavior and contribute student information to class reports. They help teachers disseminate information in class or among parents.

This question may be best answered with the SAR technique. Try to remember a similar situation when a bored child was amused in a stimulating, educational and non-disruptive way.

Any interviewee can expect to answer a number of questions about the school, so learning a bit about the place beforehand is vital. Prior to the interview, find out as much as possible about the school's extracurricular activities, offset results, what type of backgrounds the children come from, etc. so that the answer provided is well-informed.

Some of the duties of learning support assistant are:

☛ Helping teachers prepare for lessons by, for example, putting out equipment before a lesson starts or photocopying papers.

☛ Listening to children reading and reporting back to the teacher should any issues arise.

☛ Helping children who need extra help in literacy or numeracy.

☛ A teaching assistant is there to support a teacher in the classroom.

This is a term used instead of 'mother' or 'father', as many children today are raised by one parent or another person entirely, be it relative or friend. This term avoids calling attention to each child's state. If there are children in the class whose primary caregiver is not the mother, sensitivity and forethought will allow you to tell all kinds of stories without upsetting or embarrassing children.