Middle School Science Teacher
Mission Statement
Providing a World-Class Education means...
• The focus is on all students learning and achieving high standards.
• Instruction is engaging and rigorous.
• Reading and writing literacy is taught in all content areas.
• We support the academic, social, and emotional needs of all students.
• Schools and offices are inviting, welcoming, and customer oriented.
• We will accomplish our Strategic Plan by working together.
Job Summary
This position plans and implements an instructional program and provides related educational services for students. This position manages student behavior, assesses and evaluates student achievement, and modifies instructional activities, as required, and carries out a variety of student monitoring and control activities. This position, covered by this specification, serves as a general education classroom teacher; classes taught may be single or multi-grade level, subject, skill, or specialty oriented. This position usually performs duties within a team or departmental setting but might work independently in a unique teaching specialty. This position may be assigned to science labs or industrial arts/technology or other education labs where greater than average monitoring is required to diminish the chance of accidental injury to students. This position performs work under the general supervision of a principal and/or other designated administrator.
Essential Responsibilities
This job description is a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Employees may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description. Additionally, the scope of this job may change as necessary by the school division.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential responsibilities.
PWCS requires that each employee:
- work collaboratively with all stakeholders in providing a World-Class Education,
- establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others,
- communicate effectively,
- relate to and interact with a non-traditional and diverse student and employee population,
- report to work on a regular and punctual basis as scheduled,
- perform all other related work delegated or required to accomplish the objectives of the total school program,
- have knowledge of and be able to use relevant technology,
- participate in the annual professional growth planning process, and
- recognize that they are in a position of public trust and are held to a high standard of personal and professional conduct.
Essential Responsibilities - specific to this job
- Assesses continually student achievement and maintains appropriate assessment and evaluation documentation for institutional and individual reporting purposes
- Plans and implements appropriate instructional and/or learning strategies and activities, including determination of appropriate kind and level of materials, provides appropriate learning experiences, manages allotted learning time to maximize student achievement, and utilizes a variety of instructional materials and available multi-media and computer technology to enhance learning
- Manages the behavior of learners in an instructional setting to ensure environment is conducive to the learning process and assists and participates in management of student behavior in other parts of the school, center, school grounds, or work site
- Coordinates instructional activities with other professional staff, both school and non school-based, as required, to maximize learning opportunities
- Works in a self-contained, team, departmental, itinerant capacity, or in field or may make off-school site visits to monitor students, confer with employers, or site instructors
- Participates in in-service and professional development activities and staff meetings, as required or assigned
- Fosters partnerships and ensures continuous communication with parents, both written and oral, to keep them informed of student(s) progress
- Communicates continually with students on instructional expectations to keep them informed of their progress in meeting those expectations
- Assigns work to and supervises instructional assistants, parent and student volunteers
- Serves at two or more schools on a regular basis as itinerant
- Supports or participates in schoolwide student activities and social events
- Monitors student behavior in non-instructional area and intervenes to control and modify disruptive behavior, reports to appropriate administrator, as assigned or required
- Collaborates with other professionals (guidance counselors, librarians, etc.) to carry out schoolwide instructional or related activities as needed