Bus Attendants

• Wheelchair Training
• Watch all Transportation videos

Step One: Fill out an application and turn it in.

Step Two: (conducted by Human Resources and Transportation)

1. Background check
2. Interview by Transportation Administration
3. Transportation Manager Orientation

Step Three: Pass MISD Transportation level one performance qualification test. The test includes: Exiting out of the back door of the bus in 25seconds, physically stepping through an opened emergency exit roof hatch and walking to a parked bus on the parking lot, and back on the second floor within three minutes.

Step Four:

• Transportation Orientation Class (3hrs)
• Transportation Wheel Chair Class (3hrs)
• View all Transportation videos (16 videos)

Step Five: Hands on training with a Transportation Trainer - The hands on training will take four days (three hours each day)

Day One: Transportation Orientation and Wheel Chair Training- 6hrs This class is only for Transportation employees (Drivers/Attendants). It is not applicable to MISD coaches.

Day Two: Bus Basics Orientation

• Policies - (Dress code, cell phone, field trip paper work, fueling , Helping driver to back, (amber/four way flasher usages, speed limits, CNG, child alarm system, camera system and accident procedure)
• Bus orientation -( belt and whistle, mirrors, emergency equipment, bus log book)
• Pre/Post-trip inspection (air brakes, inside and outside inspection, mirrors adjustment, lift usage, danger zones, loading and unloading student.)

Day Three: Securing SPED Equipment

• Recap pre/post trip
• Air brakes
• Using the lift
• Loading and unloading student
• Securing wheel chair
• Securing star seat
• Securing vest
• Securing equipment when not in use
• Filling out paperwork

Day Four: Railroad Crossing/Loading and Unloading

• Recap pre/post trip, Air brakes, Securing Wheel chair, Securing Star seat, Securing Equipment when not in use, Securing Vest, and Filling out paper work, Loading and Unloading Student, Lift Usage
• Railroad Crossing
• Loading and Unloading
• MISD Performance Practice

Day Five: MISD Transportation Level Two Performance Qualification Test

• Recap pre/post trip, air brakes, securing wheel chair, securing star seat, securing equipment when not in use, securing vest, and filling out paperwork, loading and unloading student, lift usage
• Railroad crossing
• Loading and unloading
• MISD performance test

a. Pre/Post trip inspection

b. Loading and unloading student

c. Securing wheel chair