DUTY ASSIGNMENTS

Comprehensive student supervision is a mandated responsibility of all professional staff. While specific assignments and duties are scheduled, all professional staff shares the responsibility to supervise students throughout the day in all areas of the building and on all parts of school property.

Hall Duty- This is most effectively completed by making two rounds of each corridor in the building commencing and ending at your teaching station.

Specifically:

1. Check lavatories and clear the halls.
2. Check for student passes and escort students who are cutting to their assigned rooms.
3. Note the names of students found cutting on a cut slip and turn the cut slip into the main office.
4. Direct "visitors" to the front office and notify office via the phone of their presence in the building. Be alert for any trespassers and report any suspicions at once.

General Hall Supervision Between Classes- Teachers are expected to be in hallways between classes to deter students from running, fooling around, or making loud noises. Teachers should also check respective lavatories when walking throughout the building during the day to discourage cutters, smokers, and vandals.

Cafeteria Duty- The chairpersons coordinating cafeteria duty will assign teachers to a specific area in the cafeteria.

Specifically:
1. Report to your assigned duty area.
2. Maintain maximum visibility and supervision.
3. Supervise fair and orderly lunch lines and prevent individuals who ignore this process.
4. No food is to be taken out of the cafeteria.
5. At the conclusion of each lunch period, all teachers assigned to the cafeteria will proceed to a designated corridor and/or lavatory area to provide supervision during the remaining minutes of the administrative duty period. Specific assignments will be made at the beginning of the year.

Study Hall- Study halls are to be quiet study period. Classroom behavior in study hall is to be treated the same as any class. Students are to be seated and quiet. Seating charts are to be maintained and available for substitutes.

Specifically:
1. Take attendance just as you would in any other class.
2. Students having appointments with counselors, etc., will report to you first for attendance. Students are not to be dismissed from study hall without proper corridor passes.
3. Students wishing to use the Media Center during study hall must sign up with their respective study hall teachers.
4. Students should come to study hall prepared to do homework or other assignments.
5. Specific library use guidelines will be issued by the librarian depending on study hall sizes and other factors.

Administrative Assistants- Teachers will report daily to assist where needed and to carry out administrative-assigned tasks.

Specifically:
1. Greeting students, parents, and visitors in the main office and offices of the vice- principals.
2. Assist in maintaining order in the area.
3. Giving directions and/or escorting guests to the various offices.
4. Assisting with late sign-in and early sign-out books.
5. Other administrative tasks including class attendance, cutting, monitoring, and detention recording.

Bus Supervisors- Our students are transported to school by buses. It is extremely important that high visibility of the supervisors be maintained to deter any roughhousing, running, or inappropriate behavior by the students in the bus loading areas.

Specifically:
1. Teachers will report at least five minutes before students are dismissed from their buses.
2. Teachers will be located at the loading and unloading areas as assigned.
3. Teachers should keep students moving into building or to their buses.
4. Teachers will remain on duty until buses are given signal to depart by the supervisors at the end of the school day or the end of the activity period.
5. Teachers will enforce trespassing regulations.
6. Teachers will direct cars to the appropriate parking areas and record license plate numbers of problematic drivers during arrival and dismissal times

Lavatory Supervisor-

Specifically:
1. Teachers should be on duty during the arrival of students into the building and through the beginning of first period unless they have a first period class.
2. Teachers should supervise lavatories near their teaching stations whenever possible by frequenting same.
3. Students found cutting, smoking, etc., should be referred for appropriate action to their assigned vice-principal by use of a referral form.

Library Assistant- Teachers assigned to the library should assist in supervising and maintaining a quiet atmosphere in the area.

Specifically:
1. All students entering the library must present proper corridor passes.
2. Teachers should provide supervision in all areas of the library.