Middle School Contraband Proposal

Currently, I am a Personal Care Instructional Aide for a nonverbal Down Syndrome student at West Hempfield Elementary. I work hand and hand with the special education teacher to devise lesson plans to suit the needs of my student. I am responsible for implementing the lesson plans one-on-one with my student in Language Arts, Mathematics, and social skills interactions daily. On a daily basis, I am also responsible for molding and shaping my student's behaviors and prompt when necessary. Working in the learning support room has taught me a variety of ways to incorporate differentiated instruction to suit the needs of all students. It has also shown me the type of teacher I should be, a teacher who adapts content to meet the needs of all learners and the importance of inclusion.

School Midday Supervisors and Assistants – They are responsible for the welfare of pupils in school during the lunchtime break. They supervise pupil behaviour indoors and outdoors, help younger children with tasks such as cutting up food, look out for the health and safety of pupils at all times, distribute and tidy away lunchtime resources, assist with play activities, deal with

2.1 Describe roles and responsibilities of school governors, senior management team, and other statutory roles (e.g. SENCO), teachers, support staff

To set the demographics, Lacy Elementary School is a 60-year-old neighborhood school. Originally built to accommodate 500 students, the school is now over capacity, reaching a high enrollment of 650 students. Located in an urban school district, a majority of the students qualify for the federal breakfast and lunch program. The district has recently experienced a new rezoning, and in result there are buses now bringing 200 students from the surrounding neighborhoods to the school. Lacy Elementary opens its’ doors at 7:30 a.m., although school doesn’t begin until 8:30 a.m. Teachers are not required to report to school until 15 minutes prior to school beginning, however, teacher assistants or paraprofessionals are paid a stipend to supervise students before and after school. Although they have this opportunity, there are only two individuals who have chosen to supervise in the breakfast program. To provide additional assistance, PTA volunteers and administration are currently helping supervise when able.

It was interesting to learn about her everyday routine. She begins with periodic check-ins with students to make sure everything is going okay. She then handles referrals from teachers about behavior issue concerns. She also spends time in the classroom and does lessons in small groups. Aside from her standard counseling responsibilities she serves on various committees

Currently Ms. Gendaszek is filling a temporary school counseling position at Timberstone Junior High. She was brought

Patty McVay stated seven roles paraprofessionals play in a classroom which include: leading small groups designed by the teachers, gathering materials, providing assistance for personal care and other physical needs, assisting students to complete directions given by the teacher, facilitating interactions between students, adapting lessons under the teacher’s guidance and executing other, often unseen, but very important tasks for the classroom community (McVay, 1998).

Hillary Sessi is a school counselor at Detroit Cristo high school, while her title is a counselor, the best way to describe her job is saying she is the school therapist. Before she started working there, that was the title of her job, but there was a lot of stigma seeing the school therapist. Thus, they changed her name to school counselor. She is a counselor to all 320 students, there are no specific requirements to see her, students can come on their own if teachers refer them to her. She is currently have a caseload of about 100 students that she meets with on a weekly or biweekly basis, and all other students can still request to see her. She assist students with academic, social, emotional, behavior and family issues.

My duties also included maintaining records: health as well as individual education plans (IEP). I along with other teachers, planned parent meetings, home visits and conferences.

Working as one of the five teachers in middle school at Calvin Hunsinger, I work closely with the behavior specialist and the school social worker to analyze data and implement

Two paraprofessional and one school administrator supervise during the breakfast hours at Lacy Elementary school. These supervisors are able to maintain a good discipline most of the times as there is not any incident reported during the breakfast time. Teachers in the school don’t have to report the school until 15 minutes before the first bell and most of them don’t arrive early too. Students are escorted to the cafeteria by the teacher during the lunchtime and after that, they are on their own for rest of time during lunch. Lunch supervision is done by three paraprofessional, three parents and two administrators. One of the administrators is positioned at the door of the cafeteria, who looks after the restroom policy followed at school.

The functions that the social worker plays in this part is helping students who have a difficult time with their family or have a disability. Maintaining a good relationship with the students while working with the families with everything that is needed or that can be helped with. The social worker will stay in touch with every student and family to see how everything is going. Sometimes you will have that family that is struggling so as a social work find ways to help.

Laurie has taken a classroom responsibility role and assists with passing out supplies and collecting items from the office. He may occasionally take responsibility for his own work area. Laurie seldomly takes responsibility for his own actions and should attempt to further develop related skills in the upcoming

I had many responsibilities and duties as a teacher assistant/chaperone. Such as arriving at the assigned school for bus and student pick-up at 8:00 a.m. assisting teachers and counselors with Daily Opening Activity, with Math and Reading as well as Arts/Folklore classes. Escorting students to and from the bathroom. Supervising students during breakfast and lunch and assisting with clean up. Being responsible for picking up and returning materials to the GEAR UP office. Attending weekly Staff and Team meetings to discuss the past week and plan for the weeks ahead.

Perform duties as determined by the principal other than those regularly assigned to school personnel such as lunchroom or hall duty. (Nothing herein is intended to preclude the SRO from being available in areas where interaction with students is