Elementary Teacher
2 weeks ago
Taylorsville, Kentucky, United States
Spencer County
Full time
Requirement: Kentucky Teacher Certification - P-5 Responsibilities:
The teacher shall be an ambassador for Spencer County Schools.
The teacher shall provide excellent customer service to our students, parents, and community.
List of Duties:
The teacher demonstrates applied content knowledge.
- Communicates concepts, processes, and knowledge.
- Connects content to life experiences of student.
- Demonstrates instructional strategies that are appropriate for content and contribute to student learning.
- Guides students to understand content from various perspectives.
- Identifies and addresses students' misconceptions of content.
- Plans and implements an education program that is consistent with the SBDM Council's adopted curriculum.
- Develops significant objectives aligned with standards.
- Uses contextual data to design instruction relevant to students.
- Plans assessments to guide instruction and measure learning objectives.
- Implements flashbacks at the beginning of class to review the previously taught content.
- Plans instructional strategies and activities that address learning objectives for all students.
- Writes lesson plans utilizing the adopted format.
- Plans instructional strategies that facilitate multiple levels of learning.
- Communicates high expectations.
- Establishes a positive learning environment.
- Values and supports student diversity and addresses individual needs.
- Fosters mutual respect between teacher and students.
- Provides a safe environment for learning.
- Uses a variety of instructional strategies that align with learning objectives and actively engage students.
- Implements instruction based on diverse student needs and assessment data.
- Uses time effectively.
- Uses space and materials effectively.
- Implements and manages instruction in ways that facilitate higher order thinking.
- Uses pre-assessments.
- Uses formative assessments.
- Uses summative assessments
- Describes, analyzes and evaluates student performance data.
- Communicates learning results to students and parents.
- Allows opportunity for student self-assessment.
- Uses available technology to design and plan instruction.
- Uses available technology to implement instruction that facilitates student learning.
- Integrates student use of available technology into instruction.
- Uses available technology to assess and communicate student learning.
- Demonstrates ethical and legal use of technology.
- Uses data to reflect on and evaluate student learning.
- Uses data to reflect on and evaluate instructional practices.
- Uses data to reflect on and identify areas for professional growth.
- Identifies students whose learning could be enhanced by collaboration.
- Designs a plan to enhance student learning that includes all parties in the collaborative effort.
- Implements planned activities that enhance student learning and engage all parties.
- Analyzes data to evaluate the outcomes of collaborative efforts.
- Self assesses performance relative to Kentucky's Teacher Standards.
- Identifies priorities for professional development based on data from self-assessment, student performance, and feedback from colleagues.
- Designs a professional growth plan that addresses identified priorities.
- Shows evidence of professional growth and reflection on the identified priority areas and impact on instructional effectiveness and student learning.
- Identifies leadership opportunities that enhance student learning and/or professional environment of the school.
- Develops a plan for engaging in leadership activities.
- Implements a plan for engaging in leadership activities.
- Analyzes data to evaluate the results of planned and executed leadership efforts.
- Attends and participates in faculty meetings.
- Attends and participates in Data/Professional Development Days.
- Maintains good attendance and punctuality.
- Posts attendance according to the school's guidelines.
- Enters grades in Infinite Campus on a weekly basis.
- Dresses in a professional manner.
- Work is performed while standing, sitting and/or walking
- Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing
- Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations
- Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching
- Requires the ability to lift, carry, push or pull weights, up to 30 pounds
FOR THIS TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT, STATE LAW REQUIRES A NATIONAL AND STATE CRIMINAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECK AND A LETTER, PROVIDED BY THE INDIVIDUAL, FROM THE CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES STATING THE APPLICANT HAS NO ADMINISTRATIVE FINDINGS OF CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT FOUND THROUGH A BACKGROUND
CHECK OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT RECORDS MAINTAINED BY THE CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES