Education : Bachelors Degree.
Experience : 1 - 5 Years.
Salary : $41,400 to $45,970 per year Skills :
- Planning, preparing and delivering lessons to a range of classes including putting up displays in the classroom.
- Marking work, giving appropriate feedback and maintaining records of pupils' progress and development.
- Researching new topic areas, maintaining up-to-date subject knowledge and then devising and writing new curriculum materials.
- Selecting and using a range of different learning resources and equipment.
- Undertaking pastoral duties, such as taking on the role of form tutor, and supporting pupils on an individual basis through academic or personal difficulties.
- Preparing pupils for qualifications including external examinations and administering and invigilating them, including: in England and Wales, GCSE and A-levels; and in Scotland, Standard Grades (S Grades) and Higher Grades (H Grades).
- Managing pupil behavior in the classroom and on school premises, and applying appropriate and effective measures in cases of misbehavior.
- Supervising and supporting the work of teaching assistants, trainee teachers and newly qualified teachers (NQTs).
- Participating in and organizing extracurricular activities, such as outings, social activities and sporting events.
- Participating in departmental meetings, parents' evenings and whole school training events.
- Liaising with other professionals, such as learning mentors, careers advisers, educational psychologists and education welfare officers.
- Undergoing regular observations and participating in regular in-service training (INSET) as part of continuing professional development (CPD).
- In 'middle schools', which take children aged eight or nine to 12 or 13, teaching the primary or secondary curriculum appropriate to the age of the children.
Responsibilities :
- Orient students to their coursework and communicating course and school requirements. This includes communicating via K mail, phone, and Elluminate.
- Employ asynchronous and synchronous tools to supplement course content.
- Maintain regular office hours, to be reachable by students or parents.
- Augment course content in the form of remediation, modification, and enrichment.
- Implement student's IEPs and attend IEP conferences, as needed.
- Set deadlines for student work and grant extensions.
- Face-to-face meetings with students and teaching adult, as scheduled. This may include in person or Elluminate meetings.
- Grade student work and enter grades into an online grade book in a timely manner (no more than three days without an update in grade book).
- Ensure needed information is in CAVA Test database.
- Participate in State Testing – this includes, but is not limited to:
- Proctoring for a three week testing window
- Assigning students to test sites
- Following up with students who have not been tested
- Helping site coordinator
- Following up with student, parent and/or administrator if there are issues
- Organizing testing materials
- Contribute to and complete student report cards.
- Recommend promotion and retention.
- Communicate with parents as needed. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Calling students and parents
- K mailing students and parents
- Returning phone calls/emails ASAP but no longer than 24 hours after the initial contact
- Collaborate with other instructional teachers in the same school.
- Communicate with teachers and administrators as needed. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Calling and or emailing teachers as needed
- Returning phone calls/emails ASAP but no longer than 24 hours after the initial contact
- Collaborate with other instructional teachers in the same content area.
- Attending all in person meetings as scheduled.
- Other duties as assigned.
Description : A secondary school teacher teaches one or more national curriculum subjects to pupils aged 11-16, or up to 19 in schools with sixth forms. Teachers may use creativity, humor and imagination to develop schemes of work and to plan lessons in order to foster a healthy culture of learning within the classroom and to generate the most effective interactions with pupils.
Teachers encourage, monitor and record the progress of individual pupils, and devise and tailor resources accordingly. They must also keep up to date with developments in their subject area, new resources, methods and national objectives. Teachers liaise and network with other professionals, parents and carers both informally and formally.
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