- Role: Provides targeted support to students who are struggling with behavior.
- Key duties:
- Conducting one-to-one mentoring sessions.
- Developing strategies to help students manage their behavior.
- Working with teachers and other professionals to support students with barriers to learning.
- Building trusting relationships with students.
- Required skills: Patience, empathy, ability to build rapport, and knowledge of strategies to improve student engagement and emotional well-being.
- Role: Supervises a whole class during the absence of the regular teacher.
- Key duties:
- Ensuring students are engaged in pre-prepared work.
- Managing classroom behavior and keeping students on task.
- Responding to basic student queries about the work or procedures.
- Dealing with immediate problems or emergencies according to school policy.
- Collecting completed work and providing feedback to the teacher.
- Required skills: Strong classroom management, good communication, organization, flexibility, and the ability to act as a positive role model.
- A role titled "Cover Supervisor and Behaviour Support" would involve both sets of duties.
- This type of role might specifically involve supervising students who display challenging behavior in a designated reflection room and providing mentoring to them.