| Description | Job Title: Elementary Teacher
Purpose: Plans and promotes learning as it relates to students' backgrounds, environments and age levels; leads and instructs each student in exploration and mastery of appropriate curriculum and skills to extent that the student is capable; language arts (reading, spelling, writing, communication, and speaking), math, science, health, social studies, music, art, physical education and enrichment activities; instructs students in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for success.
Responsible to: Building Principal
Supervises: Classified personnel as assigned by the administration
Qualifications:
- Kansas State Teaching Certificate/Licenses in assigned area (s) of instruction.
- Highly qualified as defined in the No Child Left Behind Legislation.
- Ability to convey information to students in a variety of methods to induce learning.
- Ability to use technology as an instructional tool.
- Ability to use appropriate classroom management skills that insure a positive learning
environment.
- Keep active in understanding the current trends in the discipline.
Essential Functions:
- Ability to communicate effectively with students, parents, colleagues, and the community.
- Ability to effectively manage the classroom.
- Ability to perform assigned tasks.
- Ability to establish goals and objectives.
- Ability to design effective strategies to achieve goals.
- Ability to make the subject matter relevant to the students.
- Ability to supervise students in non-classroom settings.
- Ability to promote education throughout the community.
- Ability to insure classroom activities conform to District policies, rules, and regulations.
Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions:
- Must occasionally work in noisy and crowded environments with numerous interruptions.
- Requires stooping, kneeling, bending, turning, and reaching.
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- Ability to move equipment within the building as required.
- Requires prolonged sitting and standing; and use of equipment causing eye fatigue.
General responsibilities:
- Plans individual and group curriculum/instruction by developing lesson plans, assignments and activities to stimulate growth in learning in the following: language arts skills (reading, spelling, writing and communication/speaking), mathematics, science, health, social studies, music, art, physical education.
- Encourages students to participate in learning by using various means of instruction: provides multiple ways of presenting and reinforcing curriculum to include all students who process information differently; guides individual and group activities and discussions; diagnoses student difficulties; supplies remedies to make success possible.
- Creates and sustains a learning environment that will enhance learning: to maintain control of physical behavior of students to insure individual rights and privileges for learning.
- Completes assessments, keeps records and reports as required.
- Provides social and community (in and out of the classroom) activities and opportunities to display and practice skill development to insure intellectual, social, emotional, and
physical growth so that students will feel a sense of success at their own rate of development.
- Encourages and promotes communication and interaction with parents and the child's community through conferences, record keeping, lesson plans, and multiple pupil performance outcomes/assessments.
- Appropriately reports recognition of exceptionalities and provides early referrals of students.
- Interacts with faculty, principal, and community groups for planning curriculum and activities.
- Networks with sending and receiving teachers to facilitate positive transition.
- Supervises personnel assigned.
- Participates in personal professional growth activities and district inservice programs.
- Uses the following but is not limited to texts, regular classroom equipment, audio visual and VCR/TV equipment, computers, and some office equipment.
- Manages all teaching requirements with mobility to move from place to place with young children to demonstrate and teach activities within the building and on the playground; ability to conduct classroom demonstrations to teach all first grade subject areas to teach drawing, writing, sorting, feeling, opening, stapling, threading and turning pages to young children; and focused observation to observe performance and behavior of all students assigned.
- Maintains classroom so that it is conducive to learning.
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- Prepares activities including the public to present academic, music and/or art displays/programs.
- Procures and distributes materials.
- Assists with supervising bus loading, street crossing, and playground/recess duty.
- Assists with planning for curriculum and other committees.
- Reports personnel assessment of paraprofessional as required.
- Must support district mission, goals and objectives.
- Must demonstrate knowledge of the young elementary child, child development and exceptional children, basic math, reading, science, social studies and language.
- Must demonstrate ability to lead, plan, coordinate, organize a classroom, make decisions and handle emergencies.
- Must demonstrate patience, imagination and communication ability.
- Must demonstrate ability to use audio visual and regular classroom equipment including but not limited to computer, tape recorder, record player, overhead projector, VCR and TV.
- Must achieve students' projected curriculum and performance outcomes.
- Must meet all district safety requirements.
- Must have a plan for personal professional growth activities including but not limited to those supplied by the district.
- Professional evaluation performed annually by Principal in accordance with school policy and approved procedures.
- Willingness and flexibility to adopt new teaching strategies into their classroom.
- Prepare students for local, state, and national summative assessments.
Term of Employment: As per negotiated teacher agreement
Payment Rate: According to Certified Salary Schedule
Evaluation: Performance effectiveness will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board of Education Policy of Certified Personnel.
Date of Board of Education Approval: 08/09/04
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