Certified Sped Teacher

Jefferson Parish Schools Job Description Addendum

To ensure clarity and mutual understanding of your role within our organization, we are providing the following clarifications to your current job description. This addendum is intended to more fully describe your existing responsibilities and expectations, ensuring alignment with our operational goals. As exempt employees, teachers may be required to work outside of the instructional day to fulfill job duties. 

Teacher Job Description Addendum:

In addition to the job duties and responsibilities contained in your current job description, teachers shall be expected to perform the following duties, as required under the circumstances, along with the completion of all corresponding documents, forms, and reports: 

Instructional Components 

• Fulfill duties traditionally expected of those in the teaching profession
• Lesson Plans
• Instruction
• Collaborate with colleagues and departments
• Grade papers, tests, other student work, and provide timely academic feedback to students.
• Take and record attendance
• Maintain grade books; record student grades, participation, etc.
• Maintain positive and timely interaction with parents/guardians relative to the performance or conduct of students assigned to the teacher as well as other school related obligations - Utilizes, organizes, and monitors data in order to ensure student achievement.
• Organize, monitor, and evaluate data in order to make informed decisions for student growth and development.
• Provide instructional class coverage during teacher absences and/or vacancies, subject to the School Board policy on additional compensation for “teachers as subs.”

Supervision  

• Supervision of students when students are on or off campus at a school related or sponsored event
• Supervision of students prior to school and/or drop-off
• Supervision of students in the classroom and in the school
• Supervision of students between classes, during recess or other breaks, during lunch, or assemblies
• Supervision of students after school and/or pick-up

Non-instructional and Other Components  

• Attend meetings generally associated with the instruction of students
• Attend faculty, staff, committee, and department meetings
• Attend professional development or training sessions
• Attend IEP, MDR and A/BIT meetings
• Attend/contact parents for parent-teacher conferences or other parent events
• Attend back-to-school, open house, and other events
• Attend graduation ceremony and other graduation activities including but not limited to graduation practices
• Attend PGP, PIP, Evaluation, Observation, IAP, and student discipline meetings or hearings
• Attend school board committee, regular board meetings, or special board meetings upon request
• Monitor electronic communication and respond to parents, administration, and other stakeholders in a timely manner as appropriate
• If the teacher is bilingual (fluent in both English and another language), interpretation and translations may be assigned upon request of the school administrators

Extracurricular Activities 

• Attend or work at athletic or other school events during the year
• Attend all events, meetings, and functions of those classes, activities, clubs, or groups of which the employee is a teacher or a sponsor.