TITLE:
Certified Secondary Teacher
QUALIFICATIONS:
1.
Illinois State certificate in the teaching field
qualifying the teacher to teach at the secondary level.
2.
Bachelor's Degree
3.
Ability to function effectively as a member of
the school staff.
4.
Such other requirements as the Board may
establish.
REPORTS
TO:
The Secondary Building
Principal
SUPERVISES:
(Instructs and evaluates
the school work of designated):
Students
Student Teachers
Volunteers
Assists the Principal with
the evaluation of Teaching Assistants
MAINTAINS LIAISON
WITH:
Parents.
Communicates with parents as the teacher deems necessary, or
when requested by parents or administrators.
JOB
GOAL:
To
help students learn subject matter and skills that will
contribute to their development as mature, able, and
responsible men and women.
PERFORMANCE
RESPONSIBILITIES:
(In addition to those
listed in 500.31, Certified Teacher, the following are the
essential fundamentals to include but not limited to the
following job duties:
1.
Teaching in compliance with curricular requirements of the
State and of the Board of Education
of District 61.
2.
Remaining current on research, new developments and
literature on education, especially secondary
and/or the area of
special assignment.
3.
Compliance with Board Policies, Administrative Regulations,
and Board-Employee Agreements
at the school level.
4.
Participation on an appointive, elective, or volunteer basis
in the curriculum development process
at the building and district
levels, as is required to periodically review all curricular
areas to keep them up-to-date.
5.
Participation from time-to-time, in the development of
District Policies and Administrative Regulations,
on an appointive, elective, or
volunteer basis.
The major instructional function
of the secondary classroom teacher includes:
1. Instructional Delivery
This includes an
understanding and the ability to use the principles of
learning
(motivation, reinforcement,
retention, transfer) and the ability to make sound judgments
above the use of such instructional techniques as appropriate
pacing, questioning, grouping, actively involving the
students, and directly vs. indirectly instructing the
students.
2. Human Skills
This includes the ability
to stimulate students, bring enthusiasm to the learning
process, and provide both
a concern and care for the worth and dignity of the
individual.
3. Planning Skills
This includes the ability
to develop goals/objectives for content/skills based
upon
evaluation of student needs,
aptitude, and learning styles. Provision for
both individual and group learning experience is
involved.
4. Evaluation
of Students and Programs.
This includes the ability
to construct and use diagnostic, criterion reference and
student achievement tests.
Evaluation also encompasses the maintenance and
interpretation of records
for students, parents, administrators, and other
teachers.
5. Classroom Management
This includes controlling
and structuring the learning environment so that
students
adhere to rules and
providing opportunities for students to acquire the
self-discipline necessary in school and adult life.
6.
Resource Utilization
This includes the ability
to use the resource materials available--including both the
academic and human--within and outside of the confines of
the educational plant.
TERMS OF
EMPLOYMENT:
Salary is based upon
Schedules A & B, of the collective negotiated
Agreement.
EVALUATION:
Each employee in
contractual continuing service shall be evaluated at least once
every two (2) years.
Each employee not
in
continuing contractual
service shall be evaluated once every year.
Physical
Demands
Handle work which deals mostly with people,
objects, equipment in a general setting; depth perception and
field of vision are important. Employee regularly is required
to bend, stoop, twist, turn, reach, lift (up to 50 pounds),
carry, pull, push, climb, and kneel; walking and standing
approximately 50-75% of each shift. Employee must recognize
differences in sound, such as voices/noises that are loud and
playful instead of angry and combative; ability to
differentiate tones and volumes in conversation.
Mental
Demands
The Teacher must ensure
that children are supervised at all times, and that children
are involved in safe and appropriate activities. There may be a
number of situations happening at once, and the Teacher must be
prepared to handle accidents and emergencies at any
time.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described
here are representative of those an employee encounters while
performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The Teacher will be
working in a busy and occasionally noisy environment. There may
be a number of activities and situations happening at once, and
the Teacher will have to supervise all students at all
times.
Approved 6/24/97