For the 2025-2026 School Year
Certificated Salary Schedule A
Step 1 Column 1: $60,928 - Step 30 Column VII: $128,902
Highest entry: Step 15
TITLE: Teacher - Grades 7 - 8
JOB SUMMARY: To create a flexible junior high program and class environment favorable to learning and personal growth; to establish effective rapport with pupils; to motivate pupils to develop skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for secondary school education, in accordance with each pupil's ability; to establish good relationships with parents and with other staff members.
REPORTS TO: Principal
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: - 185 day contracted work year.
- Salary based on education and experience.
- Certificated Salary Schedule.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Credential: - General Elementary (K-8), General Junior High (7-8), General Secondary (7-8), Standard Elementary (K-8), Standard Secondary (7-8). General Elementary, Standard Elementary (issued on a partial fulfillment basis).
Education: - Bachelor's degree, including all courses needed to meet credential requirement.
Experience: - Better than average recommendations from student teaching supervisors or other professionals who have observed the personal characteristics, scholastic attainment, and classroom performance of the teacher.
Personal Qualities: - Appearance, grooming and personality which establishes a desirable example for pupils.
- Ability to meet district standards for physical and mental health.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THIS POSITION: - Teach the subjects prescribed by state and local regulatory bodies.
- Instruct pupils in citizenship, basic communication skills, and other general elements of the course of study specified in state law and administrative regulations and procedures of the school district.
- Provide planned learning experiences in order to motivate pupils and best utilize the available time for instruction.
- Develop lesson plans and instruction materials and provide individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each pupil.
- Establish and maintain standards of pupil behavior needed to achieve a functional learning atmosphere in the classroom.
- Evaluate pupils' academic and social growth, keep appropriate records, prepare progress reports, and communicate with parents on the individual pupil's progress.
- Identify pupil needs and cooperate with other professional staff members in assessing and helping pupils solve health, attitude, and learning problems.
- Select and requisition books, instructional aids, and instructional supplies, and maintain required inventory records.
- Supervise pupils in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned working day.
- Administer group standardized tests in accordance with district testing program.
- Share in the sponsorship of student activities and participate in faculty committees.
- Plan and coordinate the work of aides, teacher assistants, and other paraprofessionals.
- Maintain professional competence through participation in required in-service education activities provided by the district and/or self-directed professional growth activities.
- Perform basic attendance accounting and business services as required.
- Establish and maintain district standards as prescribed in board policies and district rules and regulations.
- Incorporated within one or more of the previously mentioned essential functions of this job description are the following
essential physical requirements.
Percent 1-100
5% Ability to lift 50 lbs.
5% Ability to carry 50 lbs.
10% Ability to work at a desk, conference table or in meetings of various configurations.
10% Ability to stand and circulate for extended periods of time.
10% Ability to bend and twist, kneel and stoop run and crawl.
10% Ability to reach in all directions.
15% Ability to see for purposes of reading laws and codes, rules and policies and other printed matter and observing students.
15% Ability to hear and understand speech at normal levels.
20% Ability to communicate so others will be able to clearly understand a normal conversation.
100% Total