Kindergarten Teacher

Essential Functions

Under general supervision of the building Principal, the primary function of the teacher is to provide an educational environment to develop skills needed to be responsible life-long learners and citizens. This entails assisting and ensuring that every student achieves his/her level of educational excellence in the areas of academic, career, and social/emotional development through collaborative partnership with students, family, educators, and community. The teacher performs the following responsibilities within the overarching framework of the Iowa Teaching Standards including any other duties as assigned:

• Demonstrates: o Ability to enhance academic performance and support for implementation of the school district student achievement goals. o Competence in content knowledge appropriate to the teaching position. o Capability in planning and preparing for instruction. o Skilled to implement variety of instructional strategies. o Proficiency to apply methods to monitor student learning. o Capability in classroom management.
• Uses a variety of strategies to deliver and monitor instruction that meet the multiple learning needs of students.
• Engages in professional growth.
• Fulfills professional responsibilities established by the school district.
• Teaches knowledge and skills, utilizing the Iowa Core, and using the course of study adopted by the Board of Education and appropriate curriculum publications as guidelines in teaching individual course content.
• Instruct students in citizenship and basic subject matter specified in state law, district outcomes, administrative regulations, and procedures of the school district.
• Develops lesson plans and instructional activities, which stress complex thinking and mastery of student outcomes.
• Provide opportunities for students to develop skills as collaborative workers and effective communicators.
• Encourages students to think independently, express original ideas, and work well on their own.
• Designs learning activities that will relate course content to the physical world and allow students to transfer what they learn to real-life applications.
• Adapts activities to provide individual, small group, or remedial instruction to meet the needs of the individual pupil.
• Identifies pupil needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and assisting students solve health, attitude, and learning problems.
• Provides a variety of creative projects and opportunities that encourage problem-solving and higherorder thinking skills.
• Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior needed to provide an orderly, productive classroom environment.
• Maintains an auditable record of pupil attendance and makes daily reports of student absences.
• Assesses each student’s achievement and progress.
• Communicates with students, parents, stakeholders, and school counselors on pupil achievement and progress.
• Prepares and reviews all curriculum materials to ensure their appropriateness and relevance.
• Participants in curriculum and other developmental programs within the school of assignment or on a district level.
• Assists in recommending books and instructional aids that are appropriate to the interest and maturity level of students.
• Utilizes classroom technology as an integrated part of the teaching and learning process.
• Administers or monitors group tests.