About This Role
This role involves stepping in for an absent teacher for short periods, typically 10 days or less. The Substitute Teacher's main responsibility is to teach, tutor, instruct, or lecture students to impart knowledge.
Responsibilities
- Provide classroom coverage for a teacher in the event of absence
- Refer to teacher lesson plans and notes in conducting routine classroom activities
- Maintain knowledge of appropriate response to emergencies or other critical incidents, such as fire alarms and evacuation procedures
- Monitor activities and behavior of children to ensure the physical and environmental safekeeping of students, as well as adherence to appropriate conduct and disciplinary controls
- Supervise learning activities, circulate within the classroom, and provide assistance and learning support to students
- Check and objectively evaluate students' work
- Teach students individually and in small groups, reinforcing skills based upon instructional guidelines
- Monitor students' progressive learning skills
- Make the teacher aware of students' learning deficiencies
- Enforce administration policies and rules governing students
- Clock in and out using the Paylocity time management system
- Perform extra duties that may include recess/social time, morning and/or afternoon, and lunch duty
Requirements
- Appreciation and respect for the Catholic Church and its teachings
- Conduct consistent with and supportive of the mission and purpose of the Church
- Public behavior that does not violate the faith, morals, or laws of the Church or the policies of the diocese
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Ability to communicate, listen to, and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
- Ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
- Strong command of both written and spoken English language
- Ability to sit and stand for long periods of time
- Ability to reach, grasp, feel, and see up close and from afar
- Ability to use basic office computer hardware and peripherals, with or without reasonable accommodation
- Ability to communicate verbally and in written form
- Ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (15 pounds)
Important Details
- Work is performed mostly indoors in an environmentally controlled setting
- Work is performed in a busy and occasionally noisy environment
- Work is to be performed directly on school campuses
