special education teacher

administrative assistant

office clerk

paraprofessional

adult education teacher

Utica Community Schools

Typical day at work:
Complete a pre-trip iinspection report on the truck.
Load truck and safely deiver warehouse goods or other items to school district facilities.
Deliver and pickup materials, mail, equipment and supplies as directed.
Assist in unloading delivery trucks, picking stock, storing stock and other duties that may be required.
Maintain order in central stores and assigned vehicle, requesting mechanical attention as meeded.
Substitute for Storekeeper Leader in emergency situations.

What you learn:
Learn to focus and concentrate on the task at hand in the warehouse and on the road. Practice patience and be a very courteous and defensive driver.

Management:
Keep a good professional relationship with the supervisor and other management. Show respect and show a willingness to take on any assignments.

Co-workers:
Good team work and trying to help each other when needed. Often eat lunch together, talk about sports or activities that we have in common.

The hardest part of my job, preparing a school for construction. Moving all classroom and office furniture out of the buildings and onto the trucks, driving to another location and unloading while meeting a dead line.

The most enjoyable part of my job is driving delivery routes and hi-lo work.

Typical Day At Work:
Pre-trip bus for any issues and pull out to conduct A.M. morning run and after run conduct a post trip inspection.

In the afternoon for the P.M. run again perform a shorter pre-trip bus inspection then pull out of bus yard and conduct P.M. run.  Return to bus yard around 5:00 P.M. and sweep out bus and punch out for the day.

What I've Learned:
How to be an efficent and very safe Professional School Bus driver, how to properly inspect a school bus for any saftey issues.  How to transport and work with Special Needs Student's.  Maintain and update a route book.

Management:
Awesome management and very fair and honest to me.  Willing to work with employees.

Co-workers:
Most of my co-worker's are very helpful and professional.

Hardest Part of My Job:
Keep the student's in line and to follow the bus rules.  In addition, dealing with the general motoring public on the road and running my overhead flashing red lights.

Most Enjoyable Part Of The Job:
Getting my student's safley to and from school everyday.

Utica Community Schools is Michigan’s second largest school district comprised of twenty-five elementary schools, seven junior high schools, and four high schools.  UCS employs over 1,300 teachers who proudly serve over 27,000 students.

UCS staff is committed to delivering curriculum that assures that all children achieve their true academic potential.  We are well advanced in technology initiatives, such as blended learning, and online curriculum components such as Discovery Education science curriculum.

Teachers are well supported with professional development for implementing new initiatives.

The UCS family is wonderful.  Many of our teachers are UCS graduates and live within the district as well, committed to its success.

I don’t think any public school system has treated claims of unethical acts by a teacher the way I have seen them handled here. I have always adored and looked up to UCS until they were willing to wipe things under the rug at the administration level(not even letting the board know because they knew it was wrong). It honestly changed my entire view and hope someone steps up and changes the culture back to when ICS was a great school district with teachers that cared and followed basic ethical standards for the students well bei g

A typical day at work for me includes instructing students on the weekly study focusing on four ares of development: social/emotional, physical, cognitive and language.  For example: The study of exercise. Questions to students include prior knowledge of the study and what they want to know. Daily  stations, crafts, games and discussions on study to teach the students about exercise why it's important, what it does for our bodies and conclude with what the students learned from the study.

A day as a Junior High School teacher provides many opportunities to practice flexibility and patience. It is a gift to be with students and perhaps even encourage them to fulfill all their great potential! I have worked with many, many outstanding educators.
The most enjoyable part of the job is when students are successful.
The hardest part of the job is the long hours, including weekends during the school year and over holiday breaks.

Management is terrible, not organized, unprofessional, and not qualified. While the people may be good people the environment is very toxic and enjoyable. Some drivers are not trained properly which reflects upon management. Rules are not applied across the board to all bus drivers and some are treated unfairly if management does not like them. The pay for what a driver has to deal with is not worth it at all. The negative environment outweighs the positive of helping kids get to school safely. 

Working with students everyday striving to succeed towards different goals that were set by me and themselves is the most exciting part of the job. Management inability to change and waste of money in the wrong places, interfered with the goal to help students become the best they could be. The workplace culture is uncomfortable, because goals are unclear and inflexible. The hardest part is the lack of support from  administration.

I enjoyed the responsibility of caring for my kids and my bus...Also liked interacting with the teachers and administrative staff at the various schools I drove for. The hardest part of my job was working in the cold weather in the early mornings. Upon returning after my runs I enjoyed the comradery of  my co-workers as we discussed our morning trips.

Management is friendly and helpful on a daily basis. On a daily basis I am monitoring every building in the district from a central location. I work closely with administration as well as maintenance workers, bus drivers, custodians, etc.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Special education teacher 58 salaries reported	$18.87 per hour
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Paraprofessional 8 salaries reported	$18.56 per hour
Adult education teacher 6 salaries reported	$21.62 per hour

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