General chaperone responsibilities on trips:
-When Traveling: make sure your group stays together and gets on the correct bus, plane, etc. Do frequent head counts!
-At a hotel: each chaperone will receive a key/card for each room in which he/she has students. Help students (as needed) to find rooms and to stay in assigned rooms.
-Bed time & Quiet Hours: make sure your group is in their correct hotel room/s and following hotel quiet hours.
-Be Informed: attend nightly Adult Traveler meetings (usually in lobby of hotel) to learn schedule for next day
-Inform your students: before bed, communicate the plan for next morning with your group (ie. when to get up/be ready to leave room for breakfast, what to be wearing, etc..)
– Safety First: physically go to each of your students’ rooms each morning and make sure everyone is up and ready
–ALERT band directors of any issues as soon as possible. Band Directors are the disciplinarians, not a parent chaperone.