Gravette School District

Position Description

Position Title: In-School Suspension Supervisory Aide

Reports To: Principal

Evaluated By:Principal

JOB SUMMARY: To create an instructional program and a school environment favorable to learning and personal growth; to establish effective rapport with students to motivate pupils to develop attitudes and knowledge needed to ensure a safe and orderly school environment.

$12.00 per hour, 6 hours per day

ESSENTIAL JOB EXPECTATIONS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintains regular attendance.
• Maintains confidentiality, unquestionable integrity.
• Complies with State Law and District policies and regulations.
• Maintains a safe environment for students, conducive to learning.
• Establishes, shares, and maintains standards of pupil behavior to achieve an effective learning atmosphere.
• Anticipates and effectively addresses unforeseen crises.
• Keeps and maintains appropriate records and files as needed for the Behavior Management room (examples, student’s attendance and assignments to/from teachers.
• Assist the administration in the collecting and returning of teacher assignments for students assigned to in-school suspension without interrupting classroom instruction.
• Maintains a structured environment, within the behavior management room (including student’s attendance, rules and maintaining a quiet learning environment.)
• Assist the administration in the collecting and returning of teacher assignments for students assigned to in-school suspension.
• Assist students by giving them the teacher’s assignments, one at a time.
• Assist students academically by explaining the work as needed.
• Follow teacher’s plans they have assigned to work with their students.
• Hold students responsible for finishing and correcting all work assigned.
• Compile student’s work and return promptly to the teachers.
• Assist in constantly monitoring students, by remaining in the ISS room with them at all times. Students should not be seen running errands or walking the building with the ISS aide.
• Assist in record keeping and compiling work to return to the teachers.
• Keep the ISS room clean and neat
• Help distribute written assignments at the end of the day, so that students can get to work immediately upon arrival in the morning.
• Only admit students to the ISS room that have been assigned by administrators via a referral. [Teachers should be consulting administration to assist them and assign students ISS.]
• Maintain confidentiality, unquestionable integrity about the students you have or are working with in ISS, including discussions with staff members, parents, community members and others unless requested to discuss by the administration.
• Notifies administrator of discipline referrals and informal conferencing with students that might be requested by the classroom teacher.
• Keep appropriate records of ISS attendance and teacher’s submission of classwork.
• Communicate with parents on student progress.
• Available as building sub when no students are assigned ISS.

 COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

• Ability to write statements about behavioral incidents.
• Keep communication within the building using phone system rather than a cell phone.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand and talk or hear and sometimes walk and sit. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be regularly required to sit, stand, walk, kneel, crouch, stoop, reach, twist, and lift up to 50 pounds and push or pull up to 100 pounds. The employee is directly responsible for safety, well-being, or work output of other people. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision such as to read handwritten or typed material, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.