Classroom Jobs
[size=18]As a teacher you have too many things to do already that you can't get all done. Luckily you have a whole classroom of students who can help you get all of the daily chores out of the way so you can focus on teaching. In addition, giving students classroom jobs teaches children responsibility, builds a classroom community, and helps you not to feel exhausted at the end of each day.

Benefits of having classroom jobs
Teach Students Responsibility
Children love being helpful. When students are given responsibility in class they take more ownership of that class and at the same time get to enjoy helping out.

Build a classroom community
As students work in the classroom, they create a sense of classroom ownership. For example, if you have a student in charge of cleaning up they will be less likely to make a mess in the first place. If you have a student put in charge of the library center they will be more invested in keeping that area clean and organized.

Don't do it all yourself
Teachers are busy anyway. There never seems to be enough time in the day to get everything you need accomplished. You don't have to do it alone. You have a built in system of students who are able and willing to help out! Have them help out in the class by giving each student a classroom job.
How to set up a classroom job system
Introduce the jobs a few at a time. When introducing them describe and model each job. Give students a paper with the steps they need to follow to complete their job. You can assign students to take their job description home to share with their parents.

Rotate jobs every week. When switching jobs let the student who formally held that job give the new student training. Students will love being the expert and showing the next student the ropes. By rotating each week each student will be able to have a chance to work in each job.

Some of the jobs can have more than one student assigned to them, like, paper passers and collectors, desk monitors, librarian, clean up helpers, and homework checkers.

Classroom jobs that can be assigned to students
Desk Monitor
If you're frustrated by the amount of clutter in your student desks, then assign a student this job. Have the desk monitor go around the room and make a list of every student who has a clean desk. You can then decide what reward you want to give to those students who have a clean desk.
Homework checker
In my classroom, the homework checker at the beginning of the day collects the homework and notes who didn't bring their homework.
Light monitor
Turns the lights off and on when needed.
Clean up helper
Everyone cleans up, but this student is the supervisor. He/she tells other students what still needs to be done and makes sure that everyone is helping.
Absentee helper
This student checks to see who is absent for the day and collects papers and homework for that student. When the student comes the next day, the absentee helper tells them how to do the assignments.
Attendance monitor- Marks who is absent and then tells the absentee helper.
Board Cleaner- At the end of the day this student erases all of the boards in the classroom. I let them do this while the rest of the class is cleaning the room. The clean up helper then assigns someone to clean up the area around the board cleaners desk.
Teacher Helper- If you have anything else you need to have done in the classroom this is the go-to student.
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