Elementary Monitor

Edwardsville Community Unit School District 7 – Midway Elementary, Moro, Illinois.

Position Type: Part-Time

Salary: $16 – $17.70 per hour

Assist in maintaining a safe and orderly environment for students during school hours. Perform monitoring duties in a variety of school spaces and with different student groups.

• 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

• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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.

• Human Resources
• CENTRAL OFFICE – MARK TWAIN III
• Edwardsville, Illinois 62025
• Phone: 618‑656‑1182