Position Areas
Montessori
Description
Classroom Assistant Job Description
The Classroom Assistant will promote a safe and nurturing environment, and will maintain high expectations for student success.
Responsibilities
Classroom and Curriculum
To support a nurturing, respectful, beautiful, and safe classroom environment with high expectations and standards
- Check in with Classroom Guide on the pressing needs for the day, helping to prepare the room for the day
- Ensure each child has a water bottle and fills it, daily
- Ensure all cell phones are placed in basket
- Review attendance, and monitor tardiness as needed
- Collect and organize forms (permission slips, lunch, book orders)
- Assist in preparation of and clean up from class snack
- Cycle around the room often, making your quiet presence known in all locations
- Stay alert to instances where tone-keeping is needed; redirect students to purposeful work
- Be proactive rather than reactive. Anticipate and peacefully stop disruptions before they begin
- Be observant; communicate pertinent observations with the Classroom Guide, immediately
- Help students with research/work, should they need direct guidance or help and verification of work completed
- Attend enrichment and special events with students, to monitor behavior
- Facilitate classroom clean-up so ALL students are helping to clean up the room
To support a safe, nurturing, respectful, and peaceful mealtime, as well as an active and cooperative playtime
- Students should wash hands before eating lunch
- Students are expected to sit together during lunch and have casual conversation; disruptive behavior should not be tolerated
- Give an announcement when there are 5 minutes left for lunch
- Students must clean up their area, including the ground around them
- Students are only dismissed from their table when the area has been inspected for cleanliness
- Monitor behavior at recess very carefully
- Adults must be positioned in a manner that offers maximum supervision of students at play
- Report any injuries as soon as they occur
- Students must have a pass to enter the building (bathroom pass)
- Give an announcement when there are 5 minutes left for recess
- Students are required to put away all equipment before leaving the field.
To make an active contribution of maintaining a collegial working environment, and support the mission of the school
- Collaborate regularly with the school’s Instructional Teams to implement a cohesive educational program
- Attend regularly scheduled Staff Meetings
- Attend various Professional Development offerings, with a focus on those that promote student achievement in a public Montessori environment
- Refrain from gossip or negative talk about the school, its programs or its employees
- Promote favorable public relations for the School in the community
At the following locations