Interim Middle School Science 07/27-01/04

Job Title

Job Goal: To teach one or more subjects to students and lead them toward the fulfillment of their potential for intellectual, emotional, and psychological growth and maturation.

Essential Functions:

• Supervises activities such as field trips, group discussions, and dramatic playacting, to stimulate students' interest in and broaden understanding of their physical and social environment
• Fosters cooperative social behavior through games and group projects to assist students in forming satisfying relationships with other students and adults
• Prepares for assigned classes and shows evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisor
• Encourages students to maintain standards of classroom behavior
• Observes students to detect signs of ill health or emotional disturbance and to evaluate progress
• Discusses students' problems and progress with parents
• Administers diagnostic tests and evaluates students' progress on a regular basis
• Develops and maintains a classroom environment conducive to learning
• Assists in upholding board policies, school rules, and administrative regulations
• Makes self available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional day when requested to do so
• Represents the school and the community in a positive manner
• Reports to the principal when there is knowledge or reasonable suspicion that a child's health or welfare has been or appears to have been harmed as a result of abuse or neglect
• Actively promotes the use of computer/technology to develop learning skills
• Performs other duties as assigned

Physical Demands: This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows: pushing, pulling, climbing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, talking, hearing, seeing.

Temperament (Personal Traits): Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure. Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria. Adaptability to dealing with people beyond giving and receiving instruction. Adaptability to dealing with students.

Capacity and Ability Requirements: Intelligence: Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments. Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them. Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately. Manual Dexterity: Ability to move the fingers and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately. Form Perception: To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures. Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Work Conditions: Normal working environment

Terms of Employment: 200-day contract, Teacher salary scale