Job Description:

                                                                 K-8 Teacher

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Job Title:               Teacher

Department:          School

Reports To:           Principal

SUMMARY:  Individual who teaches children in a systematic, structured manner.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

DESIGN AND PLAN INSTRUCTION

1. Focus instruction on Arizona’s student standards.
2. Focus instruction on the school’s and district’s academic standards.
3. Align curriculum with student assessments.
4. Address physical, mental, social, cultural, or community differences among learners.
5. Address prior knowledge of individual and group performance.
6. Indicate short and long term curriculum goals.
7. Include appropriate use of a variety of methods, materials, and resources.
8. Include learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for learners.
9. Include learning experiences that address a variety of cognitive levels.
10. Include learning experiences that are appropriate for curriculum goals.
11. Include learning experiences that are based upon principles of effective instructions.
12. Include learning experiences that accurately represent content.
13. Incorporate appropriate assessment of student progress.

CREATE AND MAINTAIN A LEARNING CLIMATE

1. Establish and maintain standards of mutual respect.
2. Display effective classroom management.
3. Encourage students to demonstrate self-discipline and responsibility to self and others.
4. Respect the individual differences among learners.
5. Facilitate people working productively and cooperatively with each other.
6. Provide a motivating learning environment.
7. Promote appropriate classroom participation.
8. Listen thoughtfully and responsively.
9. Organize materials, equipment, and other resources appropriately.
10. Apply to daily practice the ethics of the profession.
11. Follow district policies and procedures as adopted by the Governing Board.
12. Perform other related duties as assigned by the Principal.

IMPLEMENT AND MANAGE INSTRUCTION

1. Appropriately implement a teacher-designed lesson plan.
2. Communicate specific standards and high expectations for learning.
3. Link learning with students’ prior knowledge, experiences, and backgrounds.
4. Model the skills, concepts, attributes, or thinking processes to be learned.
5. Demonstrate effective written and oral communication.
6. Use appropriate language to communicate with learners clearly and accurately.
7. Use strategies that are appropriate to students’ developmental levels.
8. Incorporate strategies with address the diverse needs of learners.
9. Encourage critical thinking.
10. Connect lesson content to real life situations when appropriate.
11. Use technology and a variety of instructional resources appropriately.
12. Use a variety of effective teaching strategies to engage students actively in learning with a high level of success.
13. Maximize the amount of class time students are engaged in learning.
14. Provide opportunities for students to use and practice what is learned.
15. Adjust instruction based on feedback from students.

ASSESS LEARNING AND COMMUNICATE RESULTS

1. Promote student self-assessment.
2. Use a variety of appropriate formal and informal assessments aligned with instruction.
3. Maintain records of student work and performance and use them to guide instructional decisions.
4. Offer students and parents appropriate feedback on progress toward learning expectations.
5. Maintain privacy of student records and performance.

COLLABORATE WITH COLLEAGUES, PARENTS, AND OTHERS

1. Work with parents to enhance student learning at home and school.
2. Collaborate with other professionals and agencies to improve the overall learning environment for students.
3. Access community resources and services to foster student learning.
4. Demonstrate productive leadership or team membership skills that facilitate the development of mutually beneficial goals.
5. Collaborate with colleagues to achieve school and district goals.

ENGAGE IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

1. Review own practice and evaluate its influence on student growth and learning.
2. Design a professional development plan for the purpose of improving instruction and student learning.
3. Engage in relevant activities consistent with the professional development plan.
4. Use employer’s documentation of own performance in the development of a professional development plan.
5. Pursue professional activities to support development as a learner and a teacher.

DEMONSTRATE CONTENT KNOWLEDGE

1. Know the skills and concepts related to the subject areas.
2. Know the major facts and assumptions that are central to the discipline.
3. Know debates and processes of inquiry that are central to the discipline.
4. Integrate disciplinary knowledge with other subject areas.
5. Connect between knowledge of the subject areas and real life situations at the level of the student being taught.

DEMONSTRATE PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Know a variety of methods for teaching core areas at the elementary level and subject areas at the secondary level.
2. Know interdisciplinary learning experiences that integrate knowledge, skills, and methods of inquiry from several subject areas.
3. Know principles and techniques associated with various instructional strategies.
4. Use knowledge of learning theory, curriculum development, and student development in planning instruction to meet curriculum goals.
5. Know areas of exceptionality in learning.
6. Incorporate influences of individual development, experiences, talents, prior learning, language, culture, gender, family, and community on student learning.
7. Utilize principles of human motivation and behavior for managing the classroom and organizing individual and group work.
8. Evaluate curriculum materials and resources for their accuracy, comprehensiveness, and usefulness, for representing particular ideas and concepts.
9. Understand the characteristics, uses, advantages, and limitations of different types of assessments for evaluating how students learn, determining what they know and are able to do, and identifying what experiences will support their further growth and development.
10. Utilize measurement theory, interpretation of test results, and assessment-related issues, such as validity, reliability, bias and scoring.
11. Know the appropriate services or resources to meet exceptional learning needs and how to access them.
12. Understand the concept of schools as organizations within the larger community context and the operations of the relevant aspects of the educational system.
13. Know the laws and ethics related to student, parent, and teacher rights and responsibilities.

IMPLEMENT SPECIAL EDUCATION COMPONENTS

1. Demonstrate knowledge of disabilities and their educational implications.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of state and federal special education laws and regulations.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of and the ability to use a variety of assistive devices that support student learning.
4. Apply specialized diagnostic and assessment procedures to assist in determining special education eligibility for all areas of suspected disability.
5. Assist in the design and implementation of individual educational programs through diagnostic teaching, instructional adaptations, and individual behavior management techniques.
6. Utilize paraeducators and paratherapists effectively through training and supervision.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Possess a valid Arizona Teaching Certificate

SCOPE AND SALARY:

205 day contracted position based on the certified teacher salary schedule, with holidays and benefits according to district policy.

EVALUATION:

To be conducted by a designated Qualified Evaluator

Position Type:Full-Time
Positions Available:1
Salary:$35,939 to $45,705 Per YearJob Requirements

• Bachelor degree preferred.
• Citizenship, residency or work visa required