Upper Elementary Classroom Assistant

Pre-, during and Post-class

• Carry out plans and directives of Guides.
• Help keep classroom and bathroom neat during and after sessions.
• Take charge of refilling supplies as needed.

• Greet and dismiss children.
• Assist any children with a problem in organizing materials, completing tasks and returning materials properly.
• Contend with interruptions, thereby freeing trained staff to continue working with children and/or observing.
• Take charge of classroom when Directress is out of the room.

• Make minor material repairs.
• Refresh environment.
• If necessary, program and assemble a new exercise for the next day.
• Confer with Directress.
• Compare observations.
• Discuss relevant points in Montessori theory.
• Demonstrate a learning material.
• Exchange ideas or alternate way to cope with a given child (not just problems).
• Review successful group activities and invent new ones.

• Attend all staff meetings and other in-service training as requested.
• Attend school functions as requested.
• Other duties as requested.

• Bend
• Squat
• Stand
• Sit on the floor
• Walk independently for up to 1 mile
• Push/pull
• Carry/lift up to 50lbs
• Walk up to one mile comfortably and independently