Grades K-2 Multiple Subjects Teacher (Eligibility Pool For Potential Openings)

SYCAMORE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND CULTURAL ARTS

TEACHING STAFF

JOB DESCRIPTION

The following list of major duties and responsibilities may not fully represent the exact responsibilities of any one teacher. There may be additional different elements of the job which are not included in this checklist.

I. POSITION PURPOSE

The teacher is expected to use data to adapt, create, and implement curriculum to meet the individual needs of the learners in the classroom. The job requires the teacher to make independent decisions for the good of students, not necessarily to follow the text page by page.

Successful candidates will demonstrate professionalism, dedication, and a good work ethic. The teacher will need to work collaboratively with paraprofessionals, other teachers, administration, parents and the community to pursue charter goals.

II. MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Each teacher must maintain a portfolio of his or her work. The portfolio must demonstrate the teacher's performance in multiple areas. (Will specify at a future date)

The Sycamore Academy of Science and Cultural Arts shall maintain copies of all current teacher credentials and supporting documents in personnel files available for inspection.

The following quote exemplifies what it means to be a teacher at the Sycamore Academy of Science and Cultural Arts:

"That teaching is an art and the true teacher an artist is a familiar saying. Now the teacher's own claim to rank as an artist is measured by his/her ability to foster the attitude of the artist in those who study with him/her, whether they be youth or little children.

Some succeed in arousing enthusiasm, in communicating large ideas, in evoking energy. So far, so well; but the final test is whether the stimulus thus given to wider aims succeeds in transforming itself into power; that is to say, into the attention to detail that ensures mastery over means of execution. If not, the zeal flags, the interest dies out, the ideal becomes a clouded memory.

Other teachers succeed in training facility, skill, and mastery of the technique of subjects. Again it is well - so far. But unless enlargement of mental vision, power of increased discrimination of final values, a sense for ideas, for principles, accompanies this training, forms of skill ready to be put indifferently to any end may be the result.

Such modes of technical skill may display themselves, according to circumstances, as cleverness in serving self-interest, as docility in carrying out the purposes of others, or as unimaginative plodding in ruts. To nurture inspiring aim and executive means into harmony with each other is at once the difficulty and the reward of the teacher."

(Dewey, 1933)

III. EMPLOYEE QUALIFICATIONS

To be employed by the Sycamore Academy of Science and Cultural Arts, the charter requires the following conditions:

1.All employees must fulfill California Education Code Section 44237, which requires fingerprints to be obtained on each new employee in order to obtain a criminal record summary from the Department of Justice. The employee is responsible to pay for the fingerprinting costs.

2.All employees who are child-care custodians, medical practitioners or non-medical practitioners, as defined by Penal Code, are to report known or suspected instances of child abuse. Prior to employment, each person in the above position shall sign a statement, on a form provided to him/her by his/her employer, to the effect that he/she has knowledge of the provisions of Section 11166 and will comply with those provisions. The director shall ensure that the provisions of this policy are carried out in accordance with the law.

3.All employees must complete the "I-9" form to verify that they have the legal right to work in the United States.

4.All employees must have a social security card.

5.All employees, volunteers, and students must provide the results of a T.B. test as required by current state law and renew their T.B. verification every four years.

Employment is subject to a criminal history check, which takes 2 to 3 days. Applicant cannot start work until this clearance is received from the Department of Justice. Applicant will be barred from employment if he/she has a prior conviction for serious or violent felony as specified (unless applicant has obtained a certificate of rehabilitation and

pardon, or if for a serious felony, a court finding of rehabilitation). (Cal. Ed. Code section 45122.1.)

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