Although teacher aides are often employed in schools to provide support for students with disabilities and special education needs, there is limited Australian research on their work and employer expectations. This article provides an analysis of advertisements for teacher aide positions, and compares the content of advertisements with role…

The Lincoln Parish School Board, with assistance from the Gulf South Research Institute staff, conducted a 10-week pilot student-teacher aide program in which 72 college education majors worked as teacher aides in eight high schools and elementary schools for approximately 10 hours a week at $1.50 per hour. Consultants for the program were hired…

This report of the Teacher Aide Program in the Minneapolis, Minn., Public Schools, funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is divided into four sections. The first section is "An Overview of the Evaluation of the Teacher Aide Program, Academic Year, 1966-67." The next two sections summarize questionnaire…

RECRUITMENT, QUALIFICATIONS, TRAINING, AND DUTIES OF TEACHER AIDES ARE DESCRIBED. MAJOR ACTIVITIES ARE THOSE THAT FREE THE TEACHER FROM NONTEACHING DUTIES (CLERICAL, LIBRARY, LUNCHROOM SUPERVISION, AND HOME VISITS). HOWEVER, THE USE OF TEACHER AIDES DRAWN FROM THE SAME SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS AS THE PARENTS OF DISADVANTAGED PUPILS COULD PROVIDE A…

This bulletin, designed to be of assistance to those interested in employing and utilizing teacher aides, presents (1) a general account of current thinking on the rationale, use, and effects of teacher aides in public school programs and (2) the results of a descriptive research study designed to determine the status of the teacher aide in both…

In order to eliminate some of the titles assigned to paraprofessionals engaged in school instructional matters and to promote a degree of uniformity it is recommended that two types of title designations be recognized, both of which would permit two levels of classification. If the paraprofessional efforts, as written into job descriptions, are…

School systems are continually initiating programs designed to upgrade classroom teaching. But how can the classroom teacher be succesfully flexible, ingenious, and creative in using the various methods devised when the number of students in the classrooms continues to grow? The teachers need help. The assistance of paraprofessionals to work as a…

A job analysis of vocational cooperative teacher-coordinators in secondary schools in Texas was performed. Five questions were investigated: (1) What tasks were performed and what relative percent of time was spent doing these tasks?; (2) When did coordinators learn to do the tasks they do and when did they feel these tasks should have been…

Results of a 1971 New York study concerned with the role and status of teacher aides indicates that, in many instances, paraprofessionals exceed the limits of nonprofessional duties and heavily invade the professional domain. A 1971 Oregon study established that paraprofessionals were more involved in instruction than were teachers, including…

This third volume of a 3-volume publication designed to aid Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) personnel in training teacher and dormitory aides lists the participants at 4 teacher aide workshops held for BIA supervisory personnel. The purposes and objectives of teacher aides, recruitment, selection, and preparation as seen by the workshop…

This guide presents an equitable system for allocating non-instructional staff positions within the postsecondary vocational schools of Georgia. Chapter 1 first discusses the background/development of allocation formulae for three groups of non-instructional personnel: administrators and other non-instructional professional personnel,…

The general purpose of the occupational analysis is to provide workable, basic information dealing with the many and varied duties performed in the nursery school teacher aide occupation. The document opens with a brief introduction followed by a job description. The bulk of the document is presented in table form. Nine duties are broken down into…

Views of 110 English school nursery nurses were studied to discover how the caregivers assess the nature and demands of their jobs. Findings confirm a need to eliminate nursery nurses' role-confusion, and to halt present trends toward de-professionalization through a public valuing and clarification of the nature of the nursery nurses' role in…

This report discusses a study to examine staffing patterns of postsecondary vocational-technical schools in Georgia to analyze noninstructional staffing needs, existing staff utilization, and appropriate allocations of staff resources. Chapter 1 is an introduction; chapter 2 describes the methodology, which involved review of literature and other…

The Teacher Aide Program--one aspect of a 1967-68 Title III ESEA project to implement a pilot social studies program in various Madison, Wisconsin, public schools--utilized 1 full-time or 2 part-time noncertified aides working with each of 4 project teaching teams (horizontal teams at grades 6 and 10, and vertical teams at grades 4, 5, 6, and 8,…