Math Teacher - TMS

Minimum bachelor's degree with valid Tennessee teaching license required. Appropriate endorsements would include 001, 013, 101, 122, 125, 413, 440, or 2002. See below for the job description.

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• Professional Tennessee teaching certificate with appropriate endorsement.
• Possess strong writing, speaking, and human relations skills.
• Meet health and physical qualifications.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

• Meets and instructs assigned classes in the location and at the times designated.
• Plans a program of study that meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of the students to the extent possible.
• Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students.
• Prepares for classes daily and will provide written evidence upon request of principal.
• Develops and encourages students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior.
• Designs, develops, and coordinates field trips to meet the district’s goals and objectives.
• Strives to implement through instruction the district’s philosophy of education.
• Monitors on an ongoing basis the progress of students and provides reports as needed.
• Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities.
• Maintains complete, accurate, and correct records as required by law.
• Assists the administration in implementing all policies and rules governing student life and conduct; develops reasonable rules of classroom behavior and procedure; and maintains order in the classroom in a fair and just manner.
• Strives to maintain and improve professional competence by attending professional conferences and workshops.
• Attends staff meetings and serves on staff committees as required.
• Performs such other duties as may reasonably be prescribed by the principal or assistant principal.

• Pushing and/or pulling
• Climbing
• Stooping and/or kneeling
• Reaching
• Talking
• Hearing
• Seeing

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity.
• Adaptability to dealing with students.
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.

• Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or perform adequately a task or job duty.
• Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles. Ability to reason and make judgments.
• Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them.
• Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately.
• Manual Dexterity: Ability to move the hands easily and manipulate small objects with the fingers.
• Form Perception: To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures.
• Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.