Position: Primary Elementary Teacher (Grades PK-3) Location: To Be Determined
Start Date: Next School Year
Reports to: Principal/Assistant Principal
Employment/Salary: The Classroom Teacher is employed for 186 days as designated on the school calendar and on the basis of a 35-hour week. His/her salary is commensurate with the most recent Teacher Salary Schedule adopted by the St. Bernard Parish School Board
Position Overview: The teacher plans, organizes, and implements an appropriate instructional program in an environment where students can learn and develop to their fullest academic potential. The teacher is responsible for the academic growth of those students assigned to his/her class.
Minimum Position Qualifications*: - Qualifications are specified in Bulletin 746, Louisiana Standards for State Certification of School Personnel, including eligibility for a valid Type A, B, C, Level I, II, III, Temporary, Practitioner, CTIE, or Ancillary Louisiana Teaching Certificate;
- Demonstrates professional and personal characteristics necessary for working effectively with students, parents, school personnel, and members of the community;
- Demonstrates the ability to move in and about varied seating and desk organizational patterns within his/her assigned classroom while visually and auditorily monitoring student work;
- Demonstrates the ability to travel independently to varied work locations during the course of a single day if holding an itinerant position;
- Demonstrates the ability to visually and auditorily monitor student behaviors in varied locations including, but not limited to, classrooms, gymnasiums, outdoor activity areas, bus and car loading areas, cafeterias, etc.
- Possesses the physical strength, agility, and dexterity to perform all required responsibilities; and,
- Demonstrates the ability to read handwritten or typed material at close range and to prepare written and oral reports as necessary to complete performance responsibilities.
Performance Responsibilities: Instructional Engagement - Planning and Preparation – The teacher:
- Values, sequences, and aligns curriculum, enabling students to build their understanding of important ideas concept to concept;
- Designs and structures lessons so that learner outcomes are at an appropriate cognitive level;
- Writes and plans multi-disciplinary outcomes for student learning, not activity;
- Differentiates outcomes and instruction for students of varied abilities;
- Creates and/or uses a variety of assessment tools that are curriculum-aligned and challenging.
- Managing Classroom Procedures
- Helps students to develop skills to work purposefully and cooperatively in groups;
- Facilitates lessons that engage students in different types of activities – large groups, small groups, and independent work;
- Ensures smooth functioning of all routines and maximizes instructional time.
- Questioning and Discussion Techniques
- Develops and presents questions that cause students to think and reflect, resulting in a deeper understanding of the topic;
- Promotes learning through discussion;
- Uses a range of techniques to ensure that all students contribute to the discussion and enlists the assistance of students to ensure this outcome.
- Engaging Student in Learning
- Facilitates activities and assignments that promote learning and are aligned with the goals of the lesson;
- Groups students for instruction in a variety of ways using factors such as similar backgrounds, ability levels, as well as random groupings;
- Selects instructional materials suited to engaging students in understanding and learning at a deeper level;
- Delivers lessons that are appropriately structured and paced.
- Assessing Learning
- Aligns assessment to the curriculum;
- Informs students of the criteria for assessment;
- Monitors student learning with a variety of techniques;
- Provides valuable feedback in a timely, constructive, and substantive manner;
- Promotes student self-assessment and student self-monitoring of their progress.
Professional Engagement – The teacher contributes to achieving the school’s mission, engages in self-reflection and growth opportunities, and creates and sustains partnerships with families, colleagues, and communities.
- Engaging in self-reflection and growth opportunities to support high levels of learning for all students;
- Collaborating and communicating effectively and regularly with families, colleagues, and the community to promote students’ academic achievement and to accomplish the school’s mission;
- Maintaining timely and adequate records;
- Cooperating with principal;
- Performing assigned duties; attends required meetings;
- Working cooperatively with colleagues;
- Maintaining positive relationships with students;
- Exercising professional judgment;
- Using planning time wisely;
- Being regular in attendance and punctual to work/duties.
Evaluation Criteria: The job performance of the Classroom Teacher is evaluated using the Teacher Observation/Evaluation instrument most recently adopted by the School Board and in accordance with the most recently adopted Personnel Evaluation Plan.
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Disclaimer: The preceding job description has been designated to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job. Additional duties are prescribed in the most recent agreement between the St. Bernard Association of Educators and the St. Bernard Parish School Board.