About This Role
This kindergarten teaching role involves delivering the district curriculum to elementary school students, focusing on academic, social, and motor skills. The teacher will prepare objectives, administer assessments, and manage the classroom environment to foster student learning and achievement.
Responsibilities
- Teach elementary school students academic, social, and motor skills through the delivery of the district curriculum
- Prepare class objectives and outlines that align with the district approved curriculum
- Prepare, administer, correct, and analyze student assessments
- Utilize the conclusions derived from assessment analysis in developing lessons
- Instruct students on rules of conduct and expected behaviors
- Manage the class as well as other students wherever those students may be located, whether on campus or off campus events
- Identify students with academic issues and refer those students to appropriate service providers
- Regularly inform parents or guardians of their students' academic performance and behavior
- Maintain records, attendance, and grades as required by school
- Plan, organize, and deliver differentiated instruction in an appropriate manner consistent with district curriculum
- Provide timely feedback to students, parents, and guardians on evaluations
- Use appropriate techniques and strategies that promote critical, creative, and evaluative thinking skills
- Strive to maintain a learning environment that is both physically and emotionally safe
- Effectively and regularly communicate with fellow staff members and school administration
- Assist in the communication and enforcement of federal and state laws and regulations as well as district policies and procedures
- Work cooperatively with school administration, staff, and special education
- Respect students, parents, guardians, and community
- Assist parents with questions and concerns
- Maintain professional relationships with students, parents, and guardians
- Respect and embrace students of diverse backgrounds and experiences
- Assist in the protection of students and property
- Assist Principal or Vice Principal in fire and other emergency drills
- Assist the Principal or Vice Principal in the management of students (e.g., dismissal, field trips)
- Maintain a high level of personal integrity, confidentiality, and a strong work ethic
- Participate in district professional development
- Perform other duties as assigned by the principal, school administration, or superintendent of schools
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree from an accredited college or university
- Licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Education
- Physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, adding machines
- Able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body
- Able to stand, crouch, and bend over for a long period of time at intervals throughout the day
- Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics of data, people or things
- Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants
- Ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, newsletters, schedules, manuals, invoices, requisitions, menus, recipes, journals
- Ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, procedures, charts, surveys, articles, bid specifications, brochures, news releases, handbooks, budgets, using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style
- Ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence
- Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables
- Ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions
- Able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal, accounting, and marketing terminology
- Ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of algebra and geometry
- Ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape
- Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment
- Ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools
- Minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination
- Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions
- Adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations
- Ability to talk and hear (expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; perceiving nature of sounds by ear)
- Able to communicate via telephone
Important Details
- Reports to: Building Principal
About the Company
The primary function of a teacher is to deliver the district curriculum in multiple ways that increase student learning and achievement.
