2026-2027: Social Studies Teacher

Franklin Cty • Frankfort, KY

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Classroom Teacher is responsible for fulfilling the requirements of punctuality, reliability, and responsibility. This role involves developing and implementing lesson plans, caring for classroom materials and equipment, communicating classroom needs, and maintaining appropriate conduct. The teacher is expected to collaborate with staff, parents, and administration, seek professional development, and maintain confidentiality. Adherence to district policies regarding controlled substances, tobacco, alcohol, and professional conduct is mandatory. The teacher must not verbally or physically harass students, use profanity in their presence, or engage in sexual contact with students. Effective classroom management techniques are essential to create a conducive learning atmosphere, ensuring students understand expectations, exhibit appropriate behaviors, and receive immediate intervention for inappropriate conduct. The teacher must select and handle appropriate instructional materials and equipment efficiently. Planning for instruction involves establishing teaching strategies aligned with behavioral objectives, utilizing a clinical approach with diagnosis and prescription, and employing appropriate lesson plan formats. The teacher must recognize and address student differences in needs, abilities, and interests during instruction, clearly communicating learning objectives, purposes, and their relevance to students' lives. Instruction should connect to previous learning and demonstrate sound subject matter knowledge. Regular checks for student understanding, provision of adequate practice experiences, and careful monitoring of guided practice with immediate feedback are crucial. The teacher should apply reinforcement theory, maintain a positive classroom climate, incorporate student interests, praise effort, ensure student success, schedule practice for retention, allow students to verbalize critical attributes of learning, and collect data for evaluation and future planning.

Requirements

• Approved Certification with State of Kentucky.

Responsibilities

• Has a prepared lesson plan that is sufficient for instructing the lesson.
• Exercises proper care of materials and equipment.
• Communicates needs of the classroom to the proper personnel.
• Arrives for work at the assigned hour and does not leave before the assigned time.
• Communicates appropriately and effectively with other staff members, parents, students, and with administration.
• Accepts assistance, advice, and guidance from people responsible for supervising his/her performance, and makes a concerted effort toward improving or refining skills.
• Shares ideas, plans, materials, and facilities.
• Alert to the district’s, school’s, and his/her own goals and priorities and seeks professional development appropriate to these needs.
• Keeps in confidence information that has been obtained in the course of professional service, unless disclosure serves professional purpose or is required by law.
• The teacher, in his/her association with others, respects the rights, feelings, and differences among individuals, and communicates directly with the person(s) involved in any situation.
• While exercising his/her contractual responsibilities, complies with those state and local restrictions pertaining to the use of controlled substances, tobacco products, alcohol, and dress.
• Does not verbally or physically harass students.
• Does not use profanity in the presence of students.
• Does not have any sexual contact with students.
• Employs classroom management techniques that result in an atmosphere for teaching/learning in which students can know what they are expected to do.
• Begins the class promptly.
• Communicates to students those behaviors expected of them, or there is evidence that expected behaviors have been communicated.
• Ensures student exhibit classroom behaviors, which allow for maximum on-task behavior from all participants in the lesson.
• Ensures inappropriate behaviors receive immediate and appropriate teacher intervention.
• Chooses appropriate materials and/or equipment for teaching a lesson.
• Handles efficiently the materials and/or equipment in the classroom setting.
• Plans effectively with respect to establishing teaching strategies, which allow the attainment, by the students, of the lesson’s behavioral objective.
• Utilizes a clinical approach to teaching (Adequate diagnosis and prescription of evidence by students’ learning).
• Uses Diagnostic Lesson Plan Format, Instructional Lesson Plan Format, or Review Lesson Plan Format, as appropriate.
• Ensures the behavioral objective for the lesson is appropriate for the learners.
• Recognizes student differences in needs, abilities, and interests and imparts instruction so that these differences are met.
• Tells the student exactly what is to be learned in the lesson.
• Tells the student the purpose of the learning and makes it meaningful to their lives.
• Relates the learning from the lesson being taught to previous learnings and verbalizes transfer for the students.
• Students are told how they will be accountable for demonstrating proficiency in the learning.
• Gives students information about the learning.
• Demonstrates sound, up-to-date knowledge of the subject matter being taught.
• Checks periodically throughout the lesson for the students’ understanding of the objective.
• Provides practice experiences for the students of the appropriate number and variety to insure mastery of the objective.
• Carefully monitors the guided practice for experience to insure that students get immediate feedback as to the correctness of their performance.
• Demonstrates knowledge of reinforcement theory throughout the lesson.
• Ensures each aspect of the lesson gives evidence of the teacher’s attention to maintaining a classroom climate conducive to learning (Feeling Tone).
• Ensures the activities of the lesson demonstrate the teacher’s desire to include the interests of the students in the classroom.
• Encourages, praises, and/or acknowledges student effort appropriately.
• Manages instruction in such a way that each student shows some measure of success.
• Ensures practice is scheduled in such a manner as to guarantee retention of learnings.
• Gives students the opportunity to verbalize the critical attribute(s) of the learning before leaving the lesson.
• Collects data from the lesson that enables him/her to evaluate each student’s performance, and assists in planning tomorrow’s lesson.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed