JOB DESCRIPTION

TITLE: High School Teacher - Social Studies

STATUS: Certificated

REPORTS TO: Site Principal

QUALIFICATIONS:

Certification: Valid Alaska teaching license.

Experience: Must have experience working with children at the secondary age level

Skills:

Language Skills: Ability to read, write and interpret documents such as curriculum guides, test results, statutes and policies. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively to individuals and groups.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to apply ratio, percent, probability and estimation concepts. Possess an understanding of, and the ability to interpret for others, statistical
information.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to potentially technical situations. Ability to establish priority ordering of tasks necessary to complete a project and convey these understandings and priorities to others. Ability to employ logical sequencing, trouble-shooting, problem-solving and decision-making skills.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, to stand, to walk, to go up and down stairs, to operate foot and hand controls, to use a telephone and to write. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. This position requires accurate perceiving of sound, near and far vision, depth perception, handling and working with educational materials and objects, and providing oral information.

Other Skills and Abilities: Must have a working knowledge of computers and their capabilities. May need to work outside in extremely cold temperatures (to about -50 degrees F) for student supervision purposes

JOB STANDARDS: (Standards for Alaska’s Teachers)

• Describe the teacher’s philosophy of education and demonstrate its relationship to the teacher’s practice
• Understands how students learn and develop and applies that knowledge in the teacher’s practice
• Teachers students with respect for their individual and cultural characteristics
• Knows the teacher’s content area and how to teach it
• Facilitates, monitors, and assess student learning
• Creates and maintains a learning environment with which all students are actively engaged and contributing members
• Works as a partner with parents families, and community
• Participates in and contributes to the teaching profession

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

General Responsibilities: The secondary teacher assumes responsibility for teaching students assigned to them the standards and curriculum appropriate to the grade level and to the unique developmental level of each student. The elementary teacher assesses student needs; plans for, guides, and evaluates student learning and communicates student progress to pupils and parents.

Responsibility to the District/School Site imposes the following obligations:
• Maintaining consistent and regular attendance
• Being reliable and flexible
• Having sufficient sense of organizational procedures to be able to accept discipline while working happily within the established structure and policies of the school
• Being willing to acquire skills needed
• Discussing any specific problems with the supervising staff member or the principal.  Using discretion in commenting on school matters, including the performance of individual paraprofessionals or other school personnel
• Acknowledging that criticism of school personnel and/or school practices is an ineffective and unsatisfactory method of improving public education
• Understanding regulations and procedures of the school are to be followed at all times

Responsibility to self requires each employee to:
• Maintain positive attitudes
• Be responsible for his/her own actions
• Know his/her role and be able to express that role to the community in a positive manner
• Maintain personal cleanliness
• Wear appropriate clothing (avoiding extremes)
• Use appropriate language
• Give full cooperation to the total school staff

Essential job functions:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Demonstrates knowledge of all subject matter for elementary school level
• Instructs students based on the State Standards and adopted District curriculum
• Promotes student behavior, social development and physical health
• Demonstrates effectiveness in using varied instructional strategies and activities appropriate to the subject and developmental level of the students
• Works collaboratively with other school and district staff
• Monitors, assesses, and provides feedback on student performances and progress
• Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students.
• Supervises and supports the work of paraprofessional aides working in the classroom
• Works within the Federal, State and local laws, regulations and policies
• Abides by the State of Alaska Code of Ethics of the Education Profession
• Contributes to and participates in programs, initiatives and activities implemented on a school-wide and district-wide basis
• Keeps current in the profession with regard to new information, strategies or
  technologies; maintains current Alaska Certification
• Assumes other responsibilities as assigned from time to time by the site principal.

Examples of Duties:

• Planning and conducting activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students of different ages and abilities with opportunities to observe, question, investigate and learn
• Writing lesson plans
• Evaluating work, giving appropriate feedback and maintaining records of pupil’s progress and development including legally required records such as grades and attendance
• Select and use a range of resources and equipment including technology to instruct students
• Prepare students for the all required assessments
• Prepare and maintain all records and reports related to attendance, grades, progress and activities; submit all documents on time
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible
• Organizes time, space, materials and equipment for effective instruction
• Assist in updating and selecting curriculum for District wide use

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Subject to the Master Contract between the Delta/Greely School District and the Delta/Greely Education Association. One hundred and eighty-eight days

SUPERVISION: The Elementary Teacher is supervised by the Site Principal and will be evaluated according the District Certificated Staff Evaluation procedures

Delta/Greely School District is an Equal Opportunity and Educational Employer