ADMINISTRATIVE

Classroom Aide Orientation

One of the most difficult aspects of starting work at the EEU is the overwhelming amount of information that one needs to feel successful. In order to help provide support to new classroom aides, we have developed a checklist of knowledge and/or skills that should be reviewed. This checklist helps in several ways. The Classroom Aide Checklist is a tool for you and the members of your classroom team providing your training. It is a list of some of the essential information and skills that you should either review online or receive training from the classroom team. In most cases you will receive training from the Assistant Teacher in the classroom and the Head Teacher.

1. It allows the new staff member to have a sense of the skills and knowledge needed
2. It allows experienced staff to keep track of who has provide information and which skills still need to be reviewed
3. It lessens the chance that we will forget to provide important information
4. It provide focus for setting classroom team goals, giving feedback and modeling new skills

Click here to download the Classroom Aide Checklist

1. Make sure the Head Teacher has your email and phone number

2. Make sure you have the Head Teacher's email and the phone number to the classroom

Room	Phone Number
101 Reception:	543-4011
103 ITP/Toddler DATA:	221-3196
105 ITP:	221-3308
127 Kindergarten:	221-4034
129 Kindergarten:	221-4651
130 ECEAP PM:	221-5378
134 DATA:	221-6162
135 AM/PM Preschool:	221-4147
136 AM/PM Preschool:	221-4092
140 AM/PM Preschool:	221-4091
144 ECEAP AM:	221-4370
172 Assistant Principal:	221-3868

• Classroom aides are an integral part of our program.  Teachers' plans include having you as an active member of the classroom team.  Regular attendance is imperative.  If you are earning credits for working at the EEU, regular attendance is mandatory to earn a passing grade.  If you are not going to be in class, you need to let the EEU Principal (Jennifer Annable) AND your Head Teacher know as soon as possible.  Be sure you have your head teacher's home phone number and she/he has yours.

When you do need to miss work please take the following steps:

1. Make a request for an absence to the head teacher in your classroom
2. Make a request for an absence to the Principal: Jennifer Annable (annable@u.washington.edu)
3. If you are a practicum student at the UW you also need to inform your practicum supervisor
4. Email the following distribution list (eeu-assistants-aides@u.washington.edu) and ask other assistants, interns and classroom aides if they can sub for you.

If you are sick the day of your shift:  Call the front desk (206-543-4011) ASAP and leave a message informing the Head Teacher that you are sick.  Include the following information:

1. Your first and last name
2. The classroom (i.e., Room 135)
3. The time of day you wok (8:45-11:00)
4. The name of any staff member besides the head teacher and teh principal that needs to know about your absence (i.e., a related service staff member who might be supervising you)

Role of the Classroom Aide (PDF)

Interactions with children (IMAC)
Everyone should be doing one of four things when interacting with children in the classroom:

1. Imitating the children (watching how the children use the blocks and doing the same thing)
2. Modeling new actions (showing the children how to make a house with the blocks or using the blocks to make a road)
3. Asking questions ("What color is that block?"  "How many blocks did you use?")
4. Commenting on what the children are doing ("You are building a tall tower with those blocks.")

* Keys to success:

• Get down on there level (both physically and conceptually)
  • Physically: play on the ground and try to be at eye level with the children
  • Conceptually: use direct, specific and age appropriate language – talk about things that are a part of the children's everyday experiences
• Be animated – get excited about small things
• Keep trying

Review the following documents:

• Group Activities
• Individual Instruction
• Supervision
• Teacher Talk
• OT Basics
• Requesting
• PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System)

All members of the classroom team are also considered trainees at the Experimental Education Unit.  Click here to complete the registration form on-line

Click here to download information about Payroll Paperwork. Additional questions should be forwarded to Jane Skau (EEU Payroll Coordiantor).

Phone: (206) 221-4204

Email: janei@u.washington.edu

Office: 168

Currently Monthly Schedule

Download Hourly Timesheets (PDF or Excel)

Click here and download the Confirmation of Orientation form and submit the signed document to the Assistant Principal, Chris Matsumoto

Phone: (206) 221-3868

Email: chris.mats@gmail.com

Office: 171

Click here to go to the Administrative Information page

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