High School English/Language Arts Teacher

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
The Classroom Teacher helps students to learn subject matter and skills, which will lead toward the fulfillment of their potential for intellectual, emotional and psychological growth. Directs and evaluates the learning experiences of the students in activities sponsored by the school.

JOB RESPONSIBLITIES:
1.Maintain records as required by district policy; maintains professional ethics.
2.Establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships.
3.Provide evidence of professional growth.
4.Model appropriate dress.
5.Provides guidance and counsel to the students, which will promote their welfare and their proper educational development.
6.Administers the classroom and its program of organization and management. Discipline and control should be maintained at all times with those whom the teacher is charged with supervising.
7.Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with parents through effective use of interim reports, report cards and conferences.
8.Write clear and usable plans.
9.Lesson plans indicate direction for instruction and implementation of courses of study.
10.Submit lesson plans on time.
11.Demonstrate knowledge of subject matter.
12.Be prompt arriving in and dismissing a class in conformity with school schedules, as well as reporting promptly to school and to any meetings scheduled. The teacher is not to leave school before the regular scheduled time unless permission is secured from the principal.
13.Present clear, complete, and accurate explanations suitable to level of learners.
14.Approach subject matter in a positive and enthusiastic manner; present subject matter in a calm, self-confident, and poised manner.
15.Receive learner's questions comfortably and answers them clearly and completely.
16.Give positive reinforcement to acceptable academic and social behavior.
17.Consistently confront undesirable behavior with firmness and fairness.
18.Give clear and concise instructions.
19.Begin and end lessons on time.
20.Monitor student behavior and activities.
21.Show respect and consideration for students, staff, parents and so forth.
22.Present objectives clearly.
23.Present material relevant to the objective clearly and accurately.
24.Provide activities that will help learners meet the objectives.
25.Ask relevant questions throughout the lesson to check for understanding.
26.Ask questions of varying difficulty.
27.Encourage active student participation.
28.Periodically assess student progress.
29.Provide homework that is relevant to the learning objective.
30.Maintains accurate pupil accounting records and becomes familiar with the cumulative records of all students in classes.
31.Provides for the care and protection of district property.
32.Keeps an active record of supplies and equipment used in the classroom.
33.Fosters desirable school-community relationships.
34.Refers attendance, health and psychological/emotional problems to principal and/or guidance counselor.
35.Assists in the selection of textbooks, equipment, and other instructional materials.

OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1.Serve as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings.
2.Helps instill in students the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values.
3.Conducts other duties related to the teacher's duties as assigned by the principal or local superintendent of schools.

ADDITIONAL WORKING CONDITIONS:
1.Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids and tissue.
2.Occasional operation of vehicle under inclement weather conditions.
3.Occasional interaction among unruly children.

This job description in no manner states or implies that these are the only duties and responsibilities to be performed by the position incumbent. The incumbent will be required to follow the instructions and perform the duties required by the incumbent's supervisor, appointing authority, or designee.