The Cedar Cliff Local School District is seeking an art teacher for grades 1 - 12 to replace its current teacher who is retiring after having spent 27 years at Cedar Cliff. We are a small (<600 students), community-oriented district with a high degree of stability. The district is located in Greene County in the Village of Cedarville, home to Cedarville University. We strive to teach, develop, and challenge the mind, body, and character. Please send a resume and letter of interest to MS/HS principal Chad Haemmerle (chaemmerle@ccliff.net) and ES principal Jamie Dean (jdean@ccliff.net) in addition to completing the application on Frontline. The position is open until filled, so interested applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
Job Description:
Title: Classroom Teacher
Reports To: Principal, Local Superintendent
Employment Status: Full Time
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Qualifications:
1. Valid driver's license.
2. Appropriate State of Ohio teaching cettification.
3 . Demonstrates a sincere desire to aid all students.
4. Good health, high moral character, and good attendance record.
General Description:
Help students to learn subject matter and skills which will lead toward the fulfillment of their potential for intellectual, emotional, and psychological growth. Directs and evaluates the learning experiences of the students in activities sponsored by the school.
Essential Functions:
1. Maintain records as required by district policy; maintains professional ethics.
2. Establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships.
3. Provide evidence of professional growth.
4. Model appropriate dress.
5. Provides guidance and counsel to the students which will promote their welfare and their proper educational development.
6. Administers the classroom and its program of organization and management. Discipline and control should be maintained at all times with those whom the teacher is charged with supervising.
7. Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with parents through effective use of interim reports, report cards, and conferences.
8. Wlite clear and usable plans.
9. Lesson plans indicate direction for instruction.
10. Lesson plans indicate implementation of courses of study.
11. Submit lesson plans on time.
12. Demonstrate knowledge of subject matter.
13. Be prompt in arriving in and dismissing a class in confonnity with school schedules, as well as repmting promptly to school and to any meetings called. The teacher is not to leave school before the regular scheduled time unless permission is secured from the principal.
14. Present clear, complete, and accmate explanations suitable to level ofleamers.
15. Approach subject matter in a positive and enthusiastic manner; present subject matter in a calm, self-confident, and poised manner.
16. Receive learners' questions comfortably and answers them clearly and completely.
17. Give positive reinforcement to acceptable academic and social behavior.
18. Consistently confront undesirable behavior with firmness and fairness.
19. Give clear and concise instructions.
20. Begin and end lessons on time.
21. Monitor student behavior and activities.
22. Show respect and consideration for students, staff, parents, and so forth.
23. Cooperate with extended exceptional programs, i.e, DH, LD, STP, Small Group Instruction, and so forth; endeavor to make provisions for individual differences in students.
24. Present objectives clearly.
25. Present material relevant to the objective clearly and accurately.
26. Provide activities that will help Iearners meet the objectives.
27. Ask relevant questions throughout the lesson to check for understanding.
28. Ask questions of varying difficulty.
29. Encourage active student participation.
30. Periodically assess student progress.
31. Provide homework that is relevant to the learning objective.
32. Maintains accurate pupil accounting records and becomes familiar with the cumulative records of all students in classes.
33. Provides for the care and protection of district property.
34. Keeps an active record of texts, supplies, and equipment used in the classroom.
35. Fosters desirable school-community relationships.
36. Refers attendance, health, and psychological/emotional problems to principal and/or guidance counselor.
37. Assists in the selection of textbooks, equipment, and other instructional materials.
38. Accepts a share of responsibility for committees and co-curricular activities as assigned.
39. Attends county, district, and faculty meetings (seminars, conferences, workshops, and so forth) as adopted in the district's calendar unless excused by the principal.
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Serves as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings;
2. Helps instill in students the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values; and
3. Conducts other duties related to the teacher's duties as assigned by the principal or local superintendent of schools.
ADDITIONAL WORKING CONDITIONS:
1. Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and tissue.
2. Occasional operation of a vehicle under inclement weather conditions.
3. Occasional interaction among unruly children.