Job Description
Upper Elementary Classroom Assistant (4th Grade - 6th Grade)
Regular, On-going Tasks
Daily
Pre-, during and Post-class
- Carry out plans and directives of Guide.
- Help keep classroom and bathroom neat during and after sessions.
- Take charge of snacks and refilling supplies as needed.
During Class
- Greet and dismiss children, help with dressing and undressing.
- 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 Guide is out of the room.
Post-class – in cooperation with Guide
- 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.
Occasional, On-going Tasks
- Attend all staff meetings and other in-service training as requested.
- Attend school functions as requested.
- Other duties as requested
Physical – On the job at least 80% of the time, the employee must:
- Bend
- Squat
- Stand
- Sit on the floor
- Walk one mile, unassisted
- Push/pull
- Carry/lift up to 50lbs
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