"After school teachers provide essential services to children in need of extra attention. During the interview process expect to given case studies regarding irritated parents, unruly children, and your philosophy on how to get great results in the few hours you have with students each day. A bachelor's degree in education and teaching certification will be expected."
"After school teachers provide essential services to children in need of extra attention. During the interview process expect to given case studies regarding irritated parents, unruly children, and your philosophy on how to get great results in the few hours you have with students each day. A bachelor's degree in education and teaching certification will be expected."
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I took a moment to think and said I would ask the student if he or she needed any help with something. If the student continued to disrupt the class I would give the class an assignment and take the student aside. I would ask what was going on with them and what I could do to make it better. Less
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I worked with children for 8 years LAUSD I enjoy learning and teaching children I feel it's a double experience they learn from us we learn from them and I have a genuine interest in furthering a child education and keeping them safe Less
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I start off by having them line up then telling them to go to Opening circle. During opening circle I explain day's activities, ask students how they feel, do a welcome song. I give a 5 minute verbal warning when it's time to transition. During closing circle, we discuss what they liked and didn't like, have a goodbye song. At the beginning of class I make clear what the routines will be everyday: Opening circle, activity, closing circle, class rules which will be written and posted, consequences which will be written and posted. I plan on making a chart showing levels of behavior and they get clipped down and or clipped up. At the top they get stars, stickers and prizes. At the bottom, they get warnings, time outs, calls to site director/parents Less
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I have been in education since 2008. I started out in charter school for 5th/6th grade. The program started out as homework help for afterschool then became math instruction. I assisted with getting homework done, assigned in class jobs and taught class as needed. Then I tutored k-6th grade in math and language arts. I handled about 15 students/year. I kept a binder with completed work, attendence sheets and progress notes. I have been doing afterschool programming for 2 years. I supervise lunch, recess, track attendance and plan activities. I have been with OUSD for 2 years. First as an aide in special ed class then as an academic mentor doing small group reading pull outs. Less
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I had previously worked in customer service for 6 years and was manager for the last 3 of those, so I just used my experiences from that job. My advice would be: Be calm, friendly, and just be yourself. They really just want to see that you are friendly, kind and that you will be a good fit with the children and the other employees. Less
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Hi! How long did it take for your location to tell you, that you got the position? Less
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It took about one week, but that was because my interview feel the week of Christmas. Less
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I would learn the school chant or create my own "one, two, three eyes on me" to get the children to focus back on the task at hand. Less
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Begin to draw a picture on the black board, or build something out of what's available, or start a puppet show. Something out of the ordinary that would pull the focus back. If it kept happening and seemed to be a lack of respect I might begin timeouts for the instigators and a private talk about them giving me the attention I will always give them, even though it's hard sometimes. Less
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I have always been passionate about education especially in underserved communities. I want to be a part of the process to solve the disparities rather than just talk about it. Another reason is I enjoy planning activities for kids and especially like working on reading fundamentals with younger kids Less
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they don't feel confident to do the activity and want to escape from something they can't do. For middle schoolers they think it's not cool. Some techniques I have tried are to try to keep them in the activity as long as possible by saying let's wait for 5 minutes and see how you feel. Other techniques are providing an incentive. I might take a vote on a popular activity and tell them that they can do the popular activity if they spend some time with the less popular activity. I also did a closing circle where I used feedback from what students liked to plan activities which in their case was play stations Less
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If a child is shouting out answers, first I will tell them that they don't need to shout they should say the answers in a low voice. If they continue to shout when the class is working on an activity I will pull the student aside and ask they why they feel the need to shout out answers then work on a plan so they will feel heard without shouting out answers. This may include giving them one chance to answer each question before and after others have a chance. If a child is disruptive -1st time is a verbal reminder 2.2nd time is moving student away from distraction 3. 3rd time is a 5 minute time out 4. 4th time is missing a fun activity, talk to parents and behavior plan Recently a student kept playing with legos when I was trying to talk to the class so I made the entire class sit away from their trays of legos so they aren't tempted to play with them Last year one student did not sit down to do his work and kept roaming around the class after I talked to him twice. I made him sit in time out for 5 minutes and asked him why he was in time out then let him rejoin class With another girl she was not listening all day and after she came back from the bathroom late, 3rd offense I told her she would have to miss out on free coloring. I also talked alone with her mom inside the room and came up with a sit she sits in everyday and special jobs she could do if she listens Less
