School Monitor - Part Time

Supervisory Duties In School Environment

Under supervision, an employee performs a variety of non-teaching duties requiring good judgment and the ability to get along well with children, youths, and/or young adults. The incumbent is responsible for the supervision of students and student activities and for maintaining order in school buildings, on school grounds and playgrounds, and at street crossings. Work requires the employee to be able to maintain discipline among students in a courteous but firm manner.

Examples of work include overseeing and monitoring student behavior by walking hallways, campus grounds, locker rooms, and cafeteria to ensure students are proceeding to their classes in an orderly manner; helping maintain order in classrooms, library, gymnasiums and on school grounds by removing students in the event of unruly behavior; taking attendance and searching for students who are on campus but not in assigned class;

issuing passes to students who are late to class; greeting visitors to campus, ascertaining their business, issuing a pass and directing the individual(s) to the proper location; guiding students safely across streets and intersections; controlling traffic while school buses are arriving and departing; and may assist teachers with supervision during recess and lunch periods.

Required knowledge, skills, abilities and attributes include skill in dealing with children and youths with behavioral and/or emotional problems; ability to gain and hold the confidence of, and to maintain a patient and understanding attitude toward students; ability to maintain order in classrooms/library and to enforce school regulations with firmness, tact, and impartiality; ability to establish good working relationships with students, parents, school personnel and the general public;

ability to successfully complete therapeutic crisis intervention training; ability to keep simple records and to make reports; ability to read, write, understand and communicate in English sufficiently to perform the essential functions of the position; ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions; ability to administer basic first aid; good judgment; mental alertness; good powers of observation.