Elementary Teacher

2024-2025 Elementary Teacher

Location: Colcord Elementary School, 4th and 5th Grades (English)

Reports to: Building Principal

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's in Education.
• Elementary Certification through the Oklahoma Department of Education.

Job Description:

• Create a flexible program and a class environment favorable to learning and personal growth. Establish effective rapport with students and motivate students to develop the skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for education in accordance with each student's ability. Establish good relationships with parents and other staff.

Essential Duties:

• Provide learning experiences in pre-reading, language arts, social studies, mathematics, science, art, physical education, and music to students in a classroom using the course of study developed by the Oklahoma State Department of Education and the Board of Education and any other appropriate learning activities.
• Develops lesson plans and instructional materials suitable for verbal or visual instruction of students with a wide range of mental, physical, and emotional maturities.
• Translates lesson plans into learning experiences so as to best utilize the available time for instruction.
• Establishes and maintains standards of pupil behavior needed to achieve effective participation in all activities without interfering with the naturally informal atmosphere.
• Evaluate pupils’ academic and social growth, keep appropriate records, and prepare progress reports.
• Communicates with parents through various means. Holds parent conferences to discuss individual pupils' progress and interpret the school program. Interacts with pupils, staff, and parents in a positive and professional manner.
• Identifies pupil needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping pupils solve health, attitude, and learning problems.
• Supervises and monitors students during out-of-classroom activities during the assigned working day, which may include but is not limited to (cafeteria duty, field trips, playground duty, hallway monitoring, etc)

Physical/Mental Requirements

• Must have adequate manual dexterity to write legibly and perform required duties on the computer.
• Must have adequate visual acuity to read, interpret, and transcribe written material and other required duties. Requires some stooping, bending, stretching, and occasional lifting not to exceed 50 pounds