Elementary School Math Teacher

Guilford Preparatory Academy • Greensboro, NC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of this role is to plan, organize, and present instruction and instructional environments that help students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their educational and social development. This includes managing instructional time, student behavior, instructional presentation, monitoring student performance, providing feedback, facilitating instruction, and interacting effectively within the educational environment. The teacher is also responsible for performing non-instructional duties as assigned and adhering to established laws, policies, rules, and regulations, while also following a plan for professional development and demonstrating evidence of growth.

Requirements

• Degree in education or a related area that will qualify for licensure as a teacher by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
• Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students, particularly during inclusive activities.
• Ability to motivate students.
• Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment.
• Ability to perform general clerical duties.
• Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom.
• Ability to operate common office machines.
• Ability to maintain basic files and records.
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for children with special needs.
• Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Physical requirements are consistent with Light Work due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking.
• Data Conception: Ability to compare and/or judge the characteristics of data, people, or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including receiving instructions from superiors.
• Language Ability: Ability to read various documents and prepare correspondence, reports, and instructional materials.
• Intelligence: Ability to apply logical/scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions; interpret technical instructions; and deal with abstract and concrete variables.
• Verbal Aptitude: Ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, and follow instructions. Must communicate effectively in various professional languages.
• Numerical Aptitude: Ability to utilize mathematical formulas, perform basic arithmetic, and apply principles of statistics.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Ability to inspect items for proper dimensions.
• Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity: Ability to handle office equipment and hand tools with minimal eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Color Discrimination: Ability to differentiate between colors and shades.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to stress and emergency situations.
• Physical Communication: Ability to talk and hear, and communicate via telephone.

Responsibilities

• Management of Instructional Time: Ensure materials, supplies, and equipment are ready for each lesson, get the class started quickly, get students on task quickly, and maintain a high level of student time-on-task.
• Management of Student Behavior: Establish and enforce rules and procedures for routine matters, student participation, and movement within the classroom. Monitor student behavior, stop inappropriate behavior promptly and consistently while maintaining student dignity.
• Instructional Presentation: Begin lessons with a review of previous materials, introduce new lessons and objectives, speak fluently and precisely, use understandable concepts and language, provide relevant examples and demonstrations, assign tasks with a high success rate, ask appropriate questions, conduct lessons at a brisk pace while adjusting for understanding, make smooth transitions, ensure assignments are clear, and summarize main points.
• Instructional Monitoring of Student Performance: Maintain clear, firm, and reasonable work standards and due dates. Circulate during class work to check performance, routinely use oral and written work to check progress, and pose questions clearly.
• Instructional Feedback: Provide feedback on the correctness of in-class work to encourage student growth. Regularly provide prompt feedback on out-of-class work. Affirm correct responses and provide sustaining feedback after incorrect responses by probing, repeating, giving clues, or allowing more time.
• Facilitating Instruction: Have an instructional plan compatible with school and system-wide curricular goals. Use diagnostic information to develop and revise objectives and tasks. Maintain accurate records of student performance. Ensure the instructional plan aligns objectives, strategies, assessment, and student needs. Use available resources to support the instructional program.
• Interacting Within the Educational Environment: Treat all students fairly and equitably. Interact effectively with students, co-workers, parents, and the community.
• Performing Non-Instructional Duties: Carry out assigned non-instructional duties, adhere to laws, policies, rules, and regulations, and follow a plan for professional development.
• Perform other related work as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level