Technical education assistant - Salary and Career
Student Inspectors

Technical education assistant - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They take care of the student's safety on and near the school premises and during school transport. They inspect student behavior in the school environment and during school transportation. They guide students on rules and procedures, school regulations, compliance with schedules, listen to complaints and analyze facts. They provide support to academic activities, control the free activities of students, guiding the entry and exit of students, inspecting recreational spaces, defining limits on free activities. They organize the school environment and provide building maintenance.

How much does an Technical education assistant earn

A Technical education assistant earns between $1.082 and $2.764 per month, with an average monthly salary of $1.455 and a median salary of $1.300 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 16.015 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Technical education assistant

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 1.455 17.459 364 7
1º Quartile 1.082 12.978 270 5
Median Salary 1.300 15.600 325 6
3º Quartile 2.108 25.291 527 11
Higher Salary 2.764 33.162 691 14


Professional job categories

  • Middle level technicians
    • lay and mid-level teachers
      • student inspectors
        • student inspectors

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Main workplaces

Student Inspectors they work in public, private or free schools. They are statutory or CLT. They work as a team, in open or closed places, during the day or night, under occasional supervision of school principals or secretaries. They can stand for long periods in noisy places. Professionals who work in public schools also assume functions relevant to other administrative and pedagogical professionals, such as, for example, listening to teachers' complaints about threats from students in areas of violence, guiding students and making small repairs in schools.


What does it take to work in the field of Student Inspectors

The exercise of these occupations requires elementary education (inspector of public school students) and secondary education (inspector of private school students). The inspector of public school students is recruited through a public contest.


Functions and activities of Technical education assistant

Student Inspectors must:

  • take care of student safety;
  • providing building maintenance and school transport;
  • support academic activities;
  • taking care of student safety;
  • advise students and guardians;
  • inspect student behavior in the school environment and transport;
  • guidance students and guardians;
  • orienting students and guardians;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • care for student safety;
  • taking care of students' safety;
  • provide building maintenance and school transport;
  • organize environment and school transport;
  • providing building and school transport maintenance;
  • orient students and guardians;
  • organizing school environment and transport;
  • student safety;
  • guide students and guardians;
  • control student free activities;
  • organize school environment and transport;
  • show personal skills;
  • look after student safety;
  • caring for student safety;
  • provide support to academic activities;
  • inspect students' behavior in the school environment and transport;
  • inspect students' behavior in school environment and transport;
  • guiding students and guardians;
  • provide building and school transport maintenance;
  • provide support for academic activities;
  • inspect student behavior in school environment and transport;
  • control students' free activities;

  • Activities

    • provide information to teachers;
    • forwarding absent students to coordination;
    • identifying suspicious persons in the vicinity of the school;
    • requesting minor repairs;
    • open classrooms;
    • participate in the definition of school disciplinary activities;
    • bring didactic material to the classroom;
    • set limits in relationships with students;
    • communicate damaged equipment to management;
    • guide student entry and exit;
    • putting on a seat belt;
    • advise not to eat and drink while transporting;
    • activate cleaning staff;
    • transmit security;
    • suppressing school theft;
    • set limits on free activities;
    • guiding students regarding compliance with timetables;
    • guide the use of bathrooms;
    • restrict the use of profanity;
    • analyze school facts with students;
    • distribute attendance folder;
    • demonstrate affinity with the student;
    • prevent students from remaining in classrooms during recess;
    • check water level in cisterns;
    • communicate aggressive attitudes of students to the coordination;
    • guide classroom changes to students;
    • check the operating conditions of gates and doors;
    • show affection;
    • communicate suspension of classes to students;
    • locate students in the building;
    • replace (temporarily) a teacher in the classroom;
    • raise students' self-esteem;
    • show patience;
    • identifying those responsible for irregularities;
    • report student behavior to parents;
    • demonstrate a sense of observation;
    • deliver milk to students;
    • release student to go to the bathroom;
    • controlling affective manifestations;
    • boarding and disembarkation assistant;
    • photocopy academic material;
    • confirming irregularities reported by students;
    • communicating the presence of strangers in the vicinity of the school;
    • inspect classrooms, bathrooms, etc. search for irregularities;
    • assign responsibilities for your belongings to students;
    • demonstrate persuasiveness;
    • control school id card/badge;
    • work as a team;
    • explain rules and procedures to students;
    • identify those responsible for acts of depredation of school property;
    • demonstrate communication skills;
    • demonstrate emotional balance;
    • inspecting trash can;
    • inspecting cleanliness on school premises;
    • release students to authorized persons;
    • separate student fights;
    • correct bullying actions among students;
    • circulate internal communications;
    • request noise reduction;
    • advise students;
    • checking the state of the board;
    • remove dangerous objects from students;
    • forward a request from parents of students;
    • provide information to guardians;
    • reestablish discipline in classrooms without a teacher;
    • observe student movement during recess;
    • prevent class skipping;
    • ring the bell at the start and end times of classes;
    • prevent students from staying in classrooms during recess;
    • control school identity card/badge;
    • controlling the flow of people outside the school environment;
    • assisting students with disabilities (physical, visual, mental);
    • accompany students on excursions;
    • work as a team;
    • confirm irregularities reported by students;
    • call rescue;
    • distribute call books to teachers;
    • call school patrol or the police;
    • guide students' entry and exit;
    • organize student queues;
    • demonstrate flexibility;
    • demonstrate credibility;
    • reporting cases of student theft to the board;
    • forward idle students to free activities;
    • assisting students in the search for materials/uniforms;
    • checking street lighting in the vicinity of the school;
    • deliver didactic material to the student;
    • assist in the organization of cultural, recreational and sports;
    • accompany tagger student in cleaning up their graffiti;
    • inform about rules and regulations;
    • summon a substitute teacher;
    • performing internal cleaning in the school vehicle;
    • supervise use of recreation spaces;
    • reporting irregularities;
    • check seat belt use;
    • notify the teacher's absence;
    • require the student to show the belongings of the backpack ;
    • cut smoking and other addictions in the school/transport environment;
    • check the operating conditions of the light panel;
    • providing first aid;
    • place notices on wall;
    • report undisciplined student to the board/coordination;
    • show school to parents and students;
    • guiding students to classroom and transportation;
    • survey isolated groups of students;
    • show cordiality;
    • assisting students in crossing streets;
    • checking the operating conditions of gates and doors;
    • preventing class skipping;


    Sectors that hire Technical education assistant the most in the job market

    • activities of associations for the defense of social rights
    • general public administration
    • elementary school
    • supply and management of human resources for third parties
    • cleaning in buildings and households
    • child education - day care
    • combined office and administrative support services
    • collective passenger road transport, with fixed itinerary, municipal
    • school transport
    • child education - pre-school




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