Basic Skills for Auxiliary Teachers

Objectives - Participants will be able to:

Practicing and Identifying Good Work Habits
  • Identify positive work habits and the rewards for practicing them
  • Recognize poor work behavior and the consequences that may result
  • Determine individual areas of needed improvement
  • Identify strategies for improving individual work habits

Communication
  • Understand the role of the sender and the receiver in the communication cycle
  • Identify the components of non-verbal communication.
  • Identify strategies for effective listening
  • Apply basic communication strategies to the job of a substitute teacher
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  • Communicate in a positive manner

Reading to Locate Information in an Employee Handbook
  • Identify some key reading strategies for building reading comprehension
  • Identify the main idea in a text
  • Use the table of contents to locate information

Reading to Follow Directions
  • Simplify written directions into small, more manageable pieces
  • Use more effective measures to read memos, letters and other key documentation specific to job performance
  • Define their purpose when reading directions to follow them more effectively
  • Read and interpret directions from a policy manual

Grammar 101
  • Identify teaching strategies to use when teaching grammar rules
  • Recognize the basic rules of capitalization
  • Understand when to use commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks
  • Choose subjects, verbs and pronouns that are all in agreement.
  • Understand and apply parallel construction
  • Use various spelling rules

Filling Out Forms
  • Perform the steps involved in effective writing procedures
  • Identify why understanding the purpose for writing affects the way something is written
  • Correctly fill out a job related form

Problem Solving
  • Identify the steps in a problem solving process
  • Identify some tips to prevent classroom disturbances
  • Be aware of “Sink the Sub” games
  • Apply a problem solving process to a classroom scenario

Mathematics
  • Understand the place value system
  • Demonstrate the use of basic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Round and estimate numbers
  • Perform basic operations with Fractions
  • Perform basic operations with Decimals
  • Use percentages
  • Perform basic measurement techniques
  • Use basic geometry

Working in Groups
  • Identify learning styles and why they are important in the classroom setting
  • Practice rules for facilitating discussion
  • Learn about group preferences
  • Identify some of the roles of group members

Applying Technical Vocabulary to Bloodborne Pathogens
  • Understand the concept of “technical” vocabulary
  • Use a procedure for defining technical terms
  • Identify terms that are part of the vocabulary of workplace safety
  • Apply an understanding of safety terminology to hazardous situations in the workplace

Computer Basics
  • Define software and hardware
  • Identify the main components of a computer system
  • Define terms associated with computer systems
  • Demonstrate the ability to input data and generate reports

Windows 98 Part One
  • Define Operating system
  • Define desktop
  • Describe what is meant by GUI
  • Complete a mouse refresher
  • View computer contents using My Computer and Windows Explorer
  • Add and remove programs
  • Start a program
  • Resize and move windows
  • Use menus and toolbars
  • Demonstrate the use of dialog boxes
  • Demonstrate the “scrolling” function
  • Demonstrate the use of “Help”
  • Close a program and shut down Windows
  • Demonstrate the ability to setup (install) a printer

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