Technology Teacher

**Job Summary**:
The Technology Teacher will provide a rigorous academic environment that actively engages students; incorporates best educational practices; creates an inclusive environment that celebrates diversity and addresses the needs of all learners and supports the social/emotional development of the students.

**Qualifications**:
Professional Educator License (PEL) or eligible for appropriate license

Endorsement in Technology Specialist

Endorsement in grades 5-8

Bilingual preferred, not required

**Evaluation**:
Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of Staff.

**Reports to**:
Building Principal

**Terms of Employment**:
This is a 9-month position—salary and benefits established by the Board of Education. The position retains the Harvard Education Association membership and is part of the Collective Bargaining Unit.

**Compensation and Benefits**:
**FLSA Status**:
Exempt

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Facilitates students’ learning in correlation with the Illinois Learning Standards
- Communicates the essential questions to clarify the learning goals for each lesson.
- Configures lessons and selects instructional strategies to ensure that all students can answer a lesson’s essential question by its conclusion.
- Designs daily lessons that incorporate Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and/or Reading (WICOR) to ensure authentically rigorous learning experiences for all students.
- Designs lessons to include 3 or more unique learning tasks for students, at least one of which includes whole-class verbal participation.
- Assesses student progress towards objectives, expectations, and/or goals for the purpose of providing feedback to students, parents, and administration.
- Demonstrates the ability to assess and monitor the students’ skills individually.
- Creates and nurtures supportive, student-centered classroom communities that promote personal empowerment, academic growth, and the social-emotional well-being of all learners.
- Manages student behavior for the purpose of providing a safe and optimal learning environment.
- Provides students with regular opportunities to collaborate with peers, move with purpose, and experience diverse instructional strategies so that they are physically and intellectually engaged as learners.
- Provides students time to interact with instructional resources and materials in a thoughtful, active manner to support their comprehension and long-term retention of information.
- Allows students to take an active role in their learning by setting and monitoring individualized goals and processing and reflecting deliberately within lessons
- Implements each student’s Individual Education Plan (IEP) as written and collaborates with colleagues to ensure appropriate modifications or accommodations.
- Assists and provides support to students struggling with social-emotional and behavioral concerns through the MTSS framework.
- Incorporates cultural diversity and appreciation within the curriculum.
- Uses technologies appropriately in the teaching/learning process.
- Participates in a professional learning community with various stakeholders, including but not limited to instructional staff, other school personnel, parents, and various community resources, to improve the overall quality of student outcomes and achieve established classroom objectives in support of the school improvement plan.
- Participates in various meetings and professional development activities for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to perform functions.
- Assists with the transition from one grade level to the next.
- Demonstrates the ability to work collaboratively with parents and the community.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as determined by the principal or designee or as needs arise.

**Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**:

- Must demonstrate a record of effectiveness in their own teaching;
- Must have excellent planning and organization skills
- Must have the ability to work collaboratively with others
- Must have strong verbal communication skills
- Must model a desire and willingness to learn continually

**Physical Demands**:
The physical demands of this position include frequent sitting and standing for extended periods of time. Repetitive bending at the waist, as well as kneeling, stooping, and crouching to assist students, is also required. Regularly walk, talk, hear, operate a computer, hand-held learning devices, and other office equipment, reach with hands and arms, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

**ADA**:

- This job description is intended to describe minimum qualifications duties and responsibilities performed by employees assigned to this position and is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. The District reserves the right to amend and change the position responsibilities to meet District needs as