2026-2027 Health & Physical Education Teacher - Hines Middle School
About The Position
The Health & Physical Education Teacher creates a classroom environment that promotes understanding of healthy body function and exercise, motivates students to develop physical fitness and appropriate social and emotional adjustment, identifies and develops students’ physical talents, and builds strength, skill, agility, poise, and coordination through individual, dual, and team activities and sports suited to each student’s ability. The teacher delivers physical fitness, health education, rhythms and dance, and sports instruction using Newport News Public Schools curriculum and other appropriate learning activities. The position includes planning and delivering standards-aligned lessons, adapting instruction to individual students and groups, maintaining an orderly and safe physical education environment, assessing students’ academic, social, and physical growth, keeping records, communicating with parents and school counselors, supervising students during assigned activities, administering tests, and modeling nondiscriminatory practices. The role also involves collaborating with other physical education teachers and maintaining control of school property and equipment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in education or a related field.
- Meet Virginia Department of Education licensure eligibility requirements to teach physical education.
- Be eligible for or possess an appropriate Virginia teaching license.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, parents, and the public.
Responsibilities
- Teach physical fitness, health education, rhythms and dance, and individual, dual, or team sports using the division’s curriculum and appropriate learning activities.
- Teach citizenship and basic subject matter as specified by state law and Newport News Public Schools regulations and procedures.
- Collaborate with other physical education teachers to plan and implement a balanced physical education program.
- Analyze, demonstrate, and explain basic skills, knowledge, and strategies for sports, games, rhythms, and body movement.
- Develop lesson plans and supplementary materials aligned with the division’s instructional philosophy, course standards, and SOL standards.
- Provide individualized and small-group instruction to adapt the curriculum to students’ needs.
- Establish and maintain student behavior standards that support an orderly, productive physical education environment.
- Provide safety instruction and check equipment and field areas for student safety.
- Evaluate students’ academic and social growth; prepare report cards and maintain attendance reports, checklists, census forms, and other records as needed.
- Maintain control of school property, including its storage and use.
- Evaluate students’ growth in physical skills and knowledge and their contributions to team sports.
- Communicate with parents and school counselors about student progress.
- Supervise students in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned working day.
- Administer tests in accordance with division testing practices.
- Model nondiscriminatory practices in all activities.
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