What are the responsibilities and job description for the Monitor - 4 hours position at Edwardsville Community Unit School District 7?
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstrate an ability to work with children in a positive manner
- Have basic knowledge of student special needs, if applicable
- Have excellent relationships with administration, employees, students, parents and the public
- Practice superior work habits: excellent attendance & promptness, highly dependable, adaptable as needed
- Maintain a positive attitude
- Use sound judgment
- Maintain a high level of personal fitness
- Produce an excellent quality and quantity of work
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Duties for All Monitors
- Supervise students in the assigned area
- Maintain a safe and orderly setting for students
- Make students aware of the rules and positive and negative consequences
- Intervene in aggressive situations and other misbehavior (warn, isolate, inform principal, write office and discipline referrals)
- Notify office personnel immediately of any emergency (unsafe situations, stranger, stray animal, runaway student, etc)
- Notify office immediately of unauthorized persons in building or on grounds
- Prevent children from meeting or leaving with any person who does not have proper authorization obtained from the school office
- Refer students to the office when necessary (serious misbehavior, illness, injury requiring first aid)
- Maintain contact as needed with other staff members
- Reinforce good personal and social habits
- Demonstrate positive interpersonal relationships with students
- Perform other duties as directed by the administrator
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Specific Duties for Bus Monitors
- Supervise students in designated areas for arrival of buses
- Supervise the safe loading and unloading of buses and account for all riders
- Assist in seeing that students board the assigned bus
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Specific Duties of Cafeteria Monitors
- Circulate through cafeteria to maintain appropriate student behavior
- Assist the cafeteria staff in keeping the cafeteria clean and orderly
- Monitor students entering and exiting the cafeteria and students waiting in line
- Assist students having problems with food items and assist students with other expressed needs
- Encourage students to take responsibility for picking up papers and other debris in their area
- Do not allow food to be taken from the cafeteria
- Specific Duties for Playground Monitors
- Check out and check in playground equipment
- Ensure that students do not leave the perimeters of the playground
- Keep children indoors during inclement weather or if the temperature is below 15 degrees
- Dismiss students according to building procedures
- Circulate around the designated playground
- Supervise students in assigned rooms during indoor recess
- Specific Duties of Campus Monitors
- Supervise student behavior throughout the building and grounds, including parking lots
- Assist in following the procedures for ticketing and towing unauthorized vehicles
- Assist in supervising building grounds to detect violators of the non-smoking policy
- Respond appropriately to crisis situations through use of sound judgment
- Performs other duties necessary to the position as assigned by his/her Supervisor or Administrator
ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be able to lift, push or pull objects up to 40-60 pounds on a regular and repetitive basis and lift, push or pull objects on an occasional basis of 100 or more pounds.
- Must be able to speak, hear, see, write, walk, climb, stand, stoop, kneel, bend, twist, turn, push, pull and reach (above head and below knees) on a regular and repetitive basis.
- Tasks require extensive use of hands including repetitive gripping, grasping, lifting and manipulation of equipment necessary to perform duties
