Job Description:
Qualifications: Valid Arizona Certificate, BS/BA or higher degree
Reports to: Building Principal
Job Goal : To provide for effective education for all students
I. Professional Responsibilities
1. Demonstrates effective team building
· Is fair and consistent in dealing with others
· Uses discretion in handling situations that require confidentiality
· Encourages and practices effective communication
· Promotes a positive climate
· Demonstrates high expectations for self and others
2. Demonstrates effective communication skills
· Uses written and oral communication professionally
· Communicates decisions in a timely manner
· Gives clear and explicit explanations
· Plans for and promotes positive public relations
3. Establishes systematic procedures for identifying and accomplishing goals
· Forecasts needs and availability of resources
· Determines priorities
· Develops goals and objectives
· Establishes timelines
· Organizes and assigns resources
· Implements established plans
· Evaluation plans
4. Provides leadership
· Initiates positive new ideas
· Provides motivation
· Assists others in the enhancement of developing individual strengths
· Participates in staff development
· Stays current in job-related activities
· Adapts to and supports change
· Demonstrates service to the school
· Demonstrates service to the community
· Keeps the superintendent informed
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5. Acts in accordance with district policies/procedures, philosophies and state/federal regulations
· Consistently follows, maintains, and conforms to district policies/procedures and state/federal regulations
· Promotes and monitors staff conformance and takes appropriate action when necessary
· Participates in the development and review of school policies and regulations
· Strives to stay informed regarding policies and regulations applicable to his/her position
· Select appropriate channels for resolving concerns/problems
· Promote district vison, beliefs, values and mission
6. Demonstrates employee responsibility
· Is on time and well prepared
· Provides professional information to the school district as requested
· Completes duties accurately and promptly
· Encourages, models, and maintains high standards of conduct
· Attends meetings and serves on committees
· Maintains and submits required reports in a timely manner
· Promotes the belief that all students can and will learn
· Communicates effectively with parents and community
· Maintains professional relationships with colleagues, supervisors and peers
· Demonstrates service to the school and community
II. Job Specific Responsibilities
7. Demonstrates effective planning skills
· Selects appropriate long-range goals
· Writes instructional objectives that are related to difficulty to ensure successful learning experiences for each student
· Includes teaching methods and procedures relevant to the objective
· Includes relevant student activities
· Utilizes both formative and summative evaluation procedures
· Plans appropriate time allotments
· Selects a variety of teaching methods and procedures along with a variety of student activities to use
· Prepares tests which reflect course content
· Provides for individual differences
8. Selects learning content congruent with the prescribed curriculum
· Develops lesson plans, which reflect the school organization’s prescribed curriculum
· Seeks and uses advice of educational specialists in content areas
· Prepares courses outline(s), which reflect the prescribed curriculum
· Coordinates learning content with instructional objective(s)
· Plans for Arizona standards
9. Demonstrates evidence of personal organization
· Maintains classroom organization for efficient distribution of learning materials
· Incorporates into daily planning content from previous levels of reinforcement and anticipates content from future grade levels to ensure continuity and sequence
· Shows evidence of adequate lesson preparation and organization of work with objectives clearly in mind
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· Makes materials readily available to the students
· Provides adequate plans and procedures for substitute teachers
· Plans for effective use of time, materials, and resources
10. Motivates students
· Engages students in active participation
· Stimulates students by selecting the proper materials
· Responds positively to students
· Sets challenging learner expectations
· Models skills and beliefs relevant to subject content
· Is enthusiastic about teaching
11. Sets high standards for students behavior
· Responds to students in a consistent and fair manner
· Protects the rights of the individual learner
· Provides specific rules of classroom conduct
· Promotes safety
· Manages disruptive behavior constructively
12. Promotes self-disciple and responsibility
· Helps students develop efficient learning skills and work habits
· Creates a climate in which students display initiative and assume a personal responsibility for learning
· Uses knowledge of students to assign and sequence learning experiences
13. Demonstrates sensitivity in relating to students
· Is readily available to all students
· Acknowledge the rights of others to hold differing views or values
· Gives criticism, which is specific
· Knows each student as an individual
· Uses discretion in handling confidential information and difficult situations
· Acts as a willing listener
· Communicates with students sympathetically, accurately, and with understanding
14. Implements the lesson plan
· Review and preview
· Provides the structure for learning
· States instructional objectives
· Provides input related to the objective
· Models activities congruent with topic being taught and provides guided practice to reinforce concepts
· Utilizes lesson summary techniques
· Provides independent practice activities
· Indicates positive directions for moving from one activity to the next
· Checks for understanding
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15. Communicates effectively with students
· Speaks clearly
· Puts ideas across logically
· Uses a variety of verbal and nonverbal techniques
· Praises, elicits, and responds to student questions before proceeding
· Gives clear explicit directions
· Utilizes probing techniques
· Provides structuring comments, which clarify the task and help the lesson proceed smoothly
16. Prepares appropriate evaluation activities
· Makes methods of evaluation clear and purposeful
· Uses pretests and posttests
· Monitors student progress through a series of formative and summative evaluation techniques
· Prepares tests, which reflect, course content
· Provides students with specific evaluative feedback
· Checks and returns homework promptly
17. Provides opportunities for individual differences
· Uses knowledge of individual students to design educational experiences
· Paces learning according to students’ mastery of content
· Provides extra help and enrichment activities
18. Organizes students for effective differences
· Varies size of groups according to instructional objectives
· Creates a set of guidelines for student to follow when doing small group work
· Groups and regroups students according to instructional needs
· Maximizes time-on-task for each student
19. Implements individualized, direct instruction to students in the least restrictive settings
· Provides small group and individualized instruction
· Participates in team teaching
· Facilitates cooperative learning through the use of cooperative groups
· Provides behavior training