Bus Monitor

Bus Monitor role at NEWPORT INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS. The position supports the school bus driver in maintaining discipline and ensuring safe loading, unloading, and seating arrangements for students.

• Assist the bus driver in maintaining discipline on the school bus; monitor and assist students while the bus is in operation.
• Consult with and assist the bus driver in documentation of student information, record-keeping and completing route surveys.
• Assist driver in ensuring seat belts, harnesses and wheelchair clamps are secured as required.
• Assist parents and school personnel with safe loading and unloading of students; coordinate seating of pre-kindergarten students as required by State Transportation Guidelines.
• Communicate with classroom aides, teachers, principals, and parents concerning student background, medical problems and behavior as appropriate.
• Maintain current knowledge of Emergency Evacuation procedures.
• Assist handicapped children on and off the bus and escort children across the street upon return home; lift children as required; ensure a responsible adult meets students leaving the bus.
• Attend in-service meetings and training courses as assigned.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

• Safe practices concerning school bus transportation.
• Basic record-keeping techniques.
• Applicable sections of the KAR and other applicable laws.
• Health and safety regulations.

• Maintain proper records and documentation.
• Assist student loading, unloading and seating arrangements as required.
• Understand and relate to children with special needs.
• Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Lift students according to established guidelines.
• Maintain current knowledge of Emergency Evacuation procedures.
• Maintain routine records.
• Observe health and safety regulations.

Any combination equivalent to: high school diploma, GED Certificate or demonstrated progress toward obtaining a GED, preferred.

184-day contract. Salary per approved salary schedule by the Newport Board of Education.

• Entry level

• Contract

• Other

• Education