High School Spanish Teacher (Dual Credit Preferred)

Concord Community Schools

59040 Minuteman Way, Elkhart, IN 46517

Phone: (574) 875-5161

Fax: (574) 875-8762

Persons in this position may perform any of the essential duties defined below. However, this position description does not define all potential duties related to this position, and persons may be asked to perform other duties in support of the Corporation's mission.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

• Position Title: High School Teacher

• School/Department: Concord High School

• Supervisor: Principal and Assistant Principal

• Terms of Employment: Per Collective Bargaining Agreement

Primary Function:

To plan and implement learning activities aligned with the Corporation's educational programming to continuously develop students' knowledge and skills so that they are prepared to pursue college and/or career opportunities.

Essential Duties:

• Recognize the basic dignities of students, parents and families, colleagues, and subordinates.

• Exercise due care to protect the mental and physical safety of students.

• Create a safe, respectful, and orderly classroom environment that promotes students' academic and social-emotional growth.

• Plan learning activities that are aligned with Indiana Academic Standards.

• Implement learning activities using Corporation-adopted curricular materials that promote active student learning.

• Assess and monitor students' learning to provide responsive instruction.

• Initiate and maintain collaborative relationships with students' parents and families.

• Continuously strive to learn and develop new skills to promote student learning.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Essential Qualifications and Characteristics:

• The education and educator license or permit required by the Indiana Department of Education

• A positive, student-centered, and solution-focused attitude towards education and students

• The ability to establish and maintain cooperative and collaborative relationships with others

• Effective verbal and written communication skills

• Effective organizational skills

• The ability to manage a safe, respectful, and orderly classroom environment

• The ability to work with diverse groups of students

• The ability to enforce corporation and school rules and policies

• The ability to adhere to strict confidentiality policies

• The ability to use various computer and technology resources

• A past record clear of criminal activity and child abuse or neglect

Working Conditions:

The duties of this position are performed in a classroom environment. Persons are required to sit, stand, walk, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch. Additionally, persons may need to lift objects up to 50 pounds. Specific vision requirements include close vision, distant vision, and depth perception. Noise levels in the working environments may be moderately loud or loud. Occasionally, persons are required to work outdoors in varied weather conditions. Persons are also required to maintain emotional composure under stress.

Concord Community Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and it makes reasonable accommodations in accordance with federal and state laws.

FRINGE BENEFITS

Medical

Dental/Vision

Life Insurance

Long-term Disability

On-site Clinic

Retirement Plans

• The Corporation provides teachers health insurance options and dental/vision options. The Corporation will pay for a portion of the cost of the health insurance premiums and/or the dental/vision premiums. For the 2023-2024 school year, the Corporation's contributions towards the insurance premiums are as follows:

PLAN TYPE

PLAN A

PLAN B

DENTAL/VISION

Employee Only

$6,893.67

$6,893.67

$385.00

Employee + Children

$12,234.60

$12,234.60

$672.00

Employee + Spouse

$12,368.76

$12,368.76

$672.00

Employee + Spouse + Children

$12,666.10

$12,666.10

$672.00

Two Employees

$19,559.77

$19,138.71

$1,057.00

• Married employees who are both employed full time by the Corporation will receive a combination of up to what the Corporation pays for an Employee Only plan and an Employee + Spouse + Children plan. At no time shall the fringe benefit exceed the cost of the plan.

Effective January 1, 2020, the insurance program will be unbundled. The Corporation shall pay 100% of the cost of life insurance, long-term disability, telehealth visits, and the employee assistance program.

Teachers on part-time contracts (less than one hundred percent [100%]) shall receive a pro-rata insurance contribution.

• The Corporation will pay a $50 per day rate for up to one hundred twenty (120) days of unused illness leave to any teacher leaving the Corporation after completing ten (10) years or more of service with the Concord Community Schools. One (1) year of experience shall be defined as active employment for one hundred twenty (120) days during any one (1) school year. Beginning with the 1993-94 school year, one (1) year of experience will be given to any teacher who has two (2) half years of service (sixty to one hundred nineteen [60 to 119] days).

The final contract shall be amended so as to include this benefit as part of the regular pay and will be added to the last pay prior to June 30th. The teacher shall provide written notice by April 1st of the final school year of teaching. Exceptions may be granted for good cause upon recommendation by the Superintendent and approval of the majority of the Board of School Trustees.

• The Corporation will establish a section 125 Flexible Spending Benefit Plan to be funded solely by salary reductions from employees of the Corporation who wish to participate on a voluntary basis. The Corporation shall recognize and process salary reduction forms submitted by employees who wish to participate and shall remit salary reduction amounts to the Plans. The Corporation shall not be required to take other action in regard to the Plans.
• In addition to all other compensation provided under this Agreement, the Corporation shall pay three percent (3%) of each teacher's salary to the Indiana Public Retirement System (INPRS) on behalf of each teacher for payment of such teachers' mandatory contribution to the INPRS.

This section shall not apply in the case of rehired retirees who are not eligible for additional INPRS contributions.

• The Corporation has established a section 401(a) retirement plan for teachers and shall contribute one and a half percent (1.5%) of each teacher's salary to their individual plan. Teachers will be 100% vested in the 401(a) retirement plan after five (5) years of service with the Corporation; teachers will not be eligible for any percentage of the 401(a) retirement plan until they have completed five (5) years of service with the Corporation.
• Continued Participation in Group Life and Health:

A teacher who retires and who is at least fifty-five (55) years of age and has been employed by Concord Community Schools for a minimum of ten (10) years shall be eligible to participate in the Board sponsored group life and health insurance program for teachers until such teacher is eligible to apply for health coverage under Part A of the Medicare Act, provided that said teacher pays the full amount of the insurance premium prior to the date said premiums are due and payable.