About This Role
This teaching post involves creating an academic program and a classroom environment that fosters learning and personal growth for students. The role requires establishing effective relationships with students, parents, and staff to motivate students through their elementary, middle, and high school education.
Responsibilities
- Develop lesson plans and instructional materials and provide individualized and small group instruction to adapt the curriculum to each student's needs
- Use a variety of instructional strategies, such as investigation, group discussion, and presentation, where students are inventors and designers of work in which they are authentically engaged
- Meet the school's student achievement goals and monitor student gains by keeping appropriate records
- Participate in professional development opportunities that enhance the school's continuous improvement plan
- Use communication and interpersonal skills to satisfactorily interact with students, parents, school personnel, and other stakeholders
- Adhere to school and system procedures and rules with regard to Special Education, SST Plans, discipline procedures, assessment of students, Section 504 Accommodation Plans, and Board Guidelines
- Teach at an appropriate instructional level
- Provide content development, both teacher-focused and student-focused
- Build for transfer by providing initial focus, content emphasis and linking, and lesson summaries
- Promote student engagement
- Monitor student progress
- Respond to student performance
- Support students
- Use time efficiently
- Maintain an effective physical setting for instruction
- Maintain appropriate student behavior in the classroom
- Follow professional practices consistent with school and system policies in working with students, students' records, parents, and colleagues
- Interact in a professional manner with students and parents
- Be available to students and parents for conferences according to system policies
- Facilitate home-school communication by such means as holding conferences, telephoning, and sending written communications
- Maintain confidentiality of students and students' records
- Work cooperatively with school administrators, special support personnel, colleagues, and parents
- Comply with school system and state administrative regulations and board of education policies
- Conduct assigned classes at the times scheduled
- Enforce regulations concerning student conduct and discipline
- Be punctual
- Provide adequate information, plans, and materials for substitute teachers
