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School Bus Monitors

Maintain order among students on a school bus. Duties include helping students safely board and exit and communicating behavioral problems. May perform pretrip and posttrip inspections and prepare for and assist in emergency evacuations.

Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.

Social

Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.

Conventional

Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.

Realistic

Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.

Enterprising

Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.

Artistic

Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.

Investigative

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Protective Service Workers, All Other

Miscellaneous Protective Service Workers

Protective Service Occupations

Other Protective Service Workers

Assist children with disabilities or children with psychological, emotional, or behavioral issues with boarding and exiting the school bus.

Buckle seatbelts or fasten wheelchair tie-down straps to secure passengers for transportation.

Clean school bus interiors by picking up waste, wiping down windows, or vacuuming.

Direct students boarding and exiting the school bus.

Direct students evacuating the bus during safety drills.

Escort young children across roads or highways.

Evacuate students from the school bus in emergency situations.

Guide the driver when the bus is moving in reverse gear.

Monitor for trains at railroad crossings and signal the bus driver when it is safe to proceed.

School Bus Monitors

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What School Bus Monitors Do

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School Bus Monitors

Overview

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What School Bus Monitors Do

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

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