Certified- Kindergarten Teacher - Hansen

Cedar Falls Community Schools•Cedar Falls, IA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Kindergarten Teacher will operate under the direction of the superintendent of schools and the appropriate director, and will be immediately responsible to the building principal. This role involves carrying out Board of Education policies related to school functions, classroom activities, and interactions with pupils and parents. Key duties include diagnosing, prescribing, evaluating, and guiding student learning experiences, contributing to curriculum development, supervising support staff, assessing student achievement, safeguarding school property, participating in professional development, fostering positive collegial relationships, managing co-curricular activities, reporting student progress to parents and the principal, maintaining positive public relations, and demonstrating flexibility and innovation in teaching. The teacher is also expected to recognize and enhance each student's self-image and to consistently demonstrate competence across the Iowa Teaching Standards, including enhancing academic performance, possessing strong content knowledge, effective instructional planning and delivery, monitoring student learning, classroom management, professional growth, and fulfilling district responsibilities.

Requirements

Hold a valid license, issued by the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners, endorsed for the position assigned.
Demonstrate competence in the Iowa Teaching Standards.
Demonstrate ability to enhance academic performance and support for implementation of the school district’s student achievement goals.
Demonstrate competence in content knowledge appropriate to the teaching position.
Demonstrate competence in planning and preparing for instruction.
Use strategies to deliver instruction that meet the multiple learning needs of students.
Use a variety of methods to monitor student learning.
Demonstrate competence in classroom management.
Engage in professional growth.
Fulfill professional responsibilities established by the school district.

Responsibilities

To diagnose, prescribe, evaluate, and guide student learning experiences, in concert with current goals and objectives; such functions to be performed as an individual teacher or in concert with other staff members.
To share responsibility for the development of curriculum, educational procedures, and student activities to be used in achieving goals and objectives.
To supervise all associates and volunteers who assist in serving students for whom the teacher is responsible.
To evaluate and assess student achievement and to use the information thus gained as a basis for developing additional educational strategies.
To provide for the care and protection of school property.
To participate in the district’s in-service training program.
To maintain cordial and cooperative working relations with colleagues.
To be responsible for such co-curricular matters and other duties beyond the regular classroom activities as may be determined by the building principal.
To provide comprehensive reports to the parents or guardians and the principal on the academic progress and development of each student.
To maintain good public relations and appropriate school-community and school-home working relationships.
To be flexible, energetic, innovative and imaginative in providing learning activities for students.
To recognize each student as an individual and to attempt to enhance the student’s self image.