First Grade Teacher at Startown

Catawba County Schools•Newton, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The First Grade Teacher at Startown is responsible for planning, organizing, and presenting instruction and instructional environments that help students learn subject matter and skills contributing to their educational and social development. This role involves managing instructional time, student behavior, instructional presentation, monitoring student performance, providing feedback, facilitating instruction, interacting within the educational environment, and performing non-instructional duties. The teacher may also coordinate and direct the activities of teacher assistants.

Requirements

Degree in education or a related area that qualifies 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 as necessitated by work assignments.
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, forms, 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 calculations, and apply principles of statistics.
Form/Spatial Aptitude: Ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.
Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
Manual Dexterity: Ability to handle various items such as office equipment and hand tools. Minimal eye/hand/foot coordination required.
Color Discrimination: Ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.
Interpersonal Temperament: Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and in emergency situations.
Physical Communication: Ability to talk and hear, and communicate via telephone.

Nice To Haves

May coordinate and direct the activities of teacher assistants.

Responsibilities

Management of Instructional Time: Ensure materials, supplies, and equipment are ready for lessons, 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 rules and procedures for routine matters, student participation, and movement within the classroom. Promptly and consistently monitor and address inappropriate behavior while maintaining student dignity.
Instructional Presentation: Begin lessons with a review, introduce new material and objectives, speak fluently and precisely, use understandable concepts and language, provide relevant examples, assign tasks with a high success rate, ask appropriate questions, conduct lessons at a brisk pace while adjusting for understanding, make smooth transitions, clarify assignments, and summarize main points.
Instructional Monitoring of Student Performance: Maintain clear work standards and due dates, circulate to check student performance during class work, use various work products to check progress, and pose questions clearly and one at a time.
Instructional Feedback: Provide feedback on in-class work to encourage 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: Maintain an instructional plan compatible with school and system-wide curricular goals, use diagnostic information to develop/revise objectives and tasks, maintain accurate student performance records, align objectives, strategies, assessment, and student needs, and use available resources to support the instructional program.
Interacting Within the Educational Environment: Treat all students fairly and equitably, and interact effectively with students, co-workers, parents, and the community.
Performing Non-Instructional Duties: Carry out assigned non-instructional duties, adhere to laws, policies, and regulations, and follow a plan for professional development.
Perform other related work as required.