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Duties

This position provides instruction to students and performs a wide variety of tasks with curriculum planning, supervision, presenting and reinforcing learning concepts, and teaching children in a classroom setting.

 

Qualifications

  • Professional Educator License 
  • License Endorsement in one of the following:
    • Elementary Self-Contained General Education (K-9) 
    • Early Childhood Education (Birth-grade 3) 
    • Early Childhood Prekindergarten & Self Contained General Education (K-3) 
    • “Highly Qualified” (Elementary/Middle Grades test, preferred) 

Duties and Responsibilities

 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of content and teaches approved curriculum.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of child growth and development, especially of characteristics of students/children in the age group assigned.
  • Design clear instruction based on district learning targets, the primary function of this position and student data.
  • Assure that the students always have the appropriate supplies available to perform the tasks required in the various modules.
  • Evaluates academic and social emotional growth of students, keeps appropriate records, prepares progress reports, and communicates student progress to appropriate sources (students, parents, and staff).
  • Assists in diagnosing the learning disabilities of students, with the assistance of district specialists.
  • Guides the learning process toward the achievement of curriculum goals and, establishes clear objectives for all lessons, units, projects to communicate these objectives to students.
  • Creates a classroom environment with respect and rapport that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students.
  • Manage classroom procedures.
  • Encourages students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior.
  • Organize the physical environment to promote learning.
  • Plans a program of study that is aligned to the common core state standards, employing a variety of instructional techniques and instructional media that that differentiates instruction to meet the individual needs, interest, and abilities of the students.
  • Guides the learning process toward the achievement of curriculum goals and, establishes clear objectives for all lessons, units, projects to communicate these objectives to students Communicate with students.
  • Use appropriate questioning and discussion techniques.
  • Demonstrate a basic understanding and knowledge of current technology that is incorporated as a natural instructional tool, in constant use.
  • Engage students in learning.
  • Design formative and summative assessments that measure student performance based on established learning targets.
  • Use assessment information to drive instructional decision making.
  • Demonstrate flexibility and responsiveness. 

Professional Responsibilities?

  • Maintains accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulations.
  • Communicate with families.
  • Participate in a professional learning community.
  • Grow and develop professionally. 
  • Demonstrate professionalism in behavior and dress.
  • Attend meetings, serve on committees, and perform such other duties and assume other responsibilities as may be assigned by the Principal or his/her designee in accordance with the labor agreement and the Board of Education.
  • Remain available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional day, such as parent teacher conferences.
  • Assists the administration in implementing all policies and rules.
  • Have regular attendance and infrequent absences. 

Physical Requirements 

  • Endurance within a classroom setting; teaching students while standing, sitting, or walking throughout the classroom, building or outside activities with the ability to maneuver in tight spaces between desks, etc. 
  • Working with the students in an instructional setting may entail kneeling or squatting, stooping, and bending from the waist on an occasional to frequent basis on a given day. 
  • Use of aids such as whiteboards, posters, bulletin boards, overhead projector, television, computer, and technological equipment. 
  • Retrieval, use, lifting and storage of teaching material, including books, equipment, assignments, etc. 

Job Posting Date

10/8/2024

Application Deadline

12/11/2024

Start Date

1/6/2025