Gifted Teacher

Gifted Teacher

The Gifted teacher will provide guidance and instructional experiences that are academically and developmentally appropriate for each student assigned to that classroom. Essential duties and responsibilities include communicating accurately and effectively in the content area, maintaining a professional rapport with students, utilizing a variety of teaching methods and resources, and managing the classroom to ensure the best use of instructional time and promote positive student behavior in a safe and healthy environment. The teacher should recognize student diversity and create an atmosphere conducive to the promotion of student involvement and self-concept. They should demonstrate a willingness to examine and implement change, as appropriate, and work productively with colleagues, parents, and community members. The teacher must also follow board policies and administrative rules and regulations, prepare for instruction, communicate accurate and up-to-date information to students, manage time appropriately, cooperate with administration, parents, and co-workers, create a positive atmosphere and arrange the physical environment of the classroom for optimum learning, maintain accurate and complete records as required by the school district, report progress or lack thereof to parents in a timely manner, attend and participate in faculty and committee meetings, complete duties as assigned, leave adequate preparations for a substitute, take precautions to protect equipment, materials, and facilities, develop and implement appropriate classroom management strategies while maintaining high expectations for student behavior, encourage cooperation between students, maintain student involvement in appropriate tasks, demonstrate public relations skills, use appropriate techniques, strategies, and materials to achieve the desired instructional goal, use and apply appropriate conflict resolution skills, adapt the curriculum to meet the needs of individual students, use current technology for instruction and management purposes, use diagnostic data to improve instructional programs, be available to parents, students, administration and peers outside the school day, if needed, attend extra-curricular activities, report suspected child abuse and neglect, be responsible for students on field trips, act as a good role model within the context of the school, supervise educational assistants, practicum students, student teachers and high school vocational lab students, and accept other responsibilities as deemed necessary by the principal.