AIDE - MONITOR

About the role

A bus monitor rides in a van or bus over designated routes transporting school pupils or clients to and from school or other locations. Monitors may also assist on private charter trips, work with loud and disruptive clients, and support handicapped individuals under the supervision of a bus driver.

Responsibilities

• Monitor pupils and daily school bus activities to ensure proper student conduct and adherence to safe behavior standards on the bus.
• Maintain attendance and ridership records and assign seating as necessary to ensure good student behavior.
• Observe and learn established bus routes to provide directional and routing assistance to substitute drivers.
• Verify route turn-for-turn sheets and note any route changes with written notes as requested by the Operations Manager or Dispatcher.
• Make additional directional or landmark notations on bus route sheets to assist future new or substitute bus drivers.
• Observe and track route timing (e.g., total time en-route, time between stops, loading/unloading times) to establish route efficiency.
• Ensure safe loading and unloading of students on and off the bus.
• Verify student use of seat belts and assist with securing or removing belts as required.
• Assist the bus driver with sweeping and cleaning the bus interior.
• Establish and maintain effective communications and working relationships with bus drivers, district personnel, students, and parents.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.