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Classroom Assistant Program
Purpose:
The purpose of this program would be to aid
substitute teachers when they arrive at the school to make the
day as productive as possible.
Participants:
Grade six, seven, and eight students
Classroom teachers who are interested in the program
Goals:
- Provide leadership opportunities for senior
students
- Provide modeling for younger students about behavior
expected in our school
- Aid substitutes (when necessary) to help students
with subject content area
- Provide assistance to get administration if interventions
are required
- Ensure that effective learning continues in the
absence of the homeroom teacher
The Process:
- Students would be required to apply to their
classroom teachers indicating their strengths and why they would
be interested in the program.
- Teachers and the administration would select
from those students interested.
- Parental permission to participate would be required
for selected students.
Training:
- Students would go through a brief in-service
of general expectations of the program, as whole, from the administration.
- Students would go into assigned classrooms
in pairs or small groups and observe the routines, time schedules,
and location of materials, and to learn student names.
- After the training period of two full days
in the classroom, students would be required to fill out a personal
booklet similar to the one the substitute teachers are given
when working at our school.
- If the teacher has any concerns with the
student classroom assistants at this time, they would identify
these concerns to the program coordinator and then the students
would have an opportunity to rectify the concerns or withdraw
from the program.
Implementation:
Students would attend the classroom
any day(s) that the classroom teacher is absent. If the teacher
is away for an extended period, the classroom assistants would
return to their home classrooms until the substitute feels comfortable
with the class and has established their own routines, procedures,
etc. The classroom assistants will not be away from their own
homeroom for more than two consecutive days.
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