Teacher - Wayland Alexander Elementary

Ohio County Schools•Hartford, KY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Wayland Alexander Elementary School is seeking a Classroom Teacher. The primary goal of this position is to plan, organize, and deliver instructional programs that support the premise that all students can learn. This role involves implementing activities that promote the learning goals and academic expectations of school improvement in Kentucky.

Requirements

Kentucky certificate, license, or other legal credentials required.
Experience and other qualifications as specified by the Superintendent.
Ability to work effectively with students.
Ability to communicate effectively with students, parents, and colleagues.

Responsibilities

Demonstrates Professional Leadership by building positive relationships, promoting leadership in colleagues, participating in professional organizations, writing and speaking effectively, contributing to professional knowledge, guiding curriculum development, participating in policy design, initiating educational projects, practicing effective listening and conflict resolution, adhering to school board policies and administrative procedures, adhering to the state Professional Code of Ethics, and demonstrating punctuality and good attendance.
Communicates content knowledge across disciplines, including current knowledge and the ability to integrate ideas across disciplines. Demonstrates knowledge to teach to students' ability levels and learning styles, connects content knowledge to real-world applications, plans lessons and develops instructional materials reflecting knowledge of current constructs and principles, analyzes sources for accuracy, presents content with sensitivity to multicultural and global perspectives, and collaborates with teachers in other disciplines.
Focuses instruction on Kentucky's learning goals and academic expectations, develops instruction requiring students to apply knowledge, skills, and thinking processes, integrates skills, thinking processes, and content across disciplines, creates and utilizes learning experiences that challenge, motivate, and actively involve learners, creates and uses developmentally appropriate learning experiences, develops and incorporates strategies addressing physical, social, and cultural diversity, arranges the physical classroom to support teaching and learning, includes creative and appropriate use of technologies, develops and implements appropriate assessment processes, secures and uses a variety of school and community resources, develops and incorporates learning experiences encouraging adaptability, flexibility, resourcefulness, and creativity, and uses knowledge from past teaching experiences to anticipate instructional challenges.
Communicates with and challenges students supportively, provides constructive feedback, maintains positive classroom interaction by establishing appropriate expectations, shows consistent sensitivity to individuals and responds objectively, shows flexibility and creativity in classroom processes and instructional procedures, locates and organizes materials and equipment for an enriched multimedia environment, encourages and supports individual and group inquiry, uses a variety of classroom management techniques fostering individual responsibility and cooperation, analyzes and changes the classroom to accommodate various instructional strategies, and works with colleagues to develop an effective learning climate.
Communicates specific goals and high expectations for learning, connects learning with students' prior knowledge, experiences, backgrounds, and aspirations, models/demonstrates skills, concepts, attributes, and thinking processes, uses and develops multiple teaching/learning strategies appropriate to student developmental levels and actively engages students, provides opportunities for students to increase knowledge of cultural similarities and differences, stimulates students to reflect on their own ideas and those of others, uses appropriate questioning strategies for problem-solving and critical thinking, manages student examination of social issues relative to course content, possible responses, and consequences, demonstrates interpersonal/team membership skills and supportive behavior with students, presents differing viewpoints when integrating knowledge and experiences across disciplines, makes effective use of media and technologies, makes efficient use of physical and human resources and time, provides opportunities for students to use and practice what is learned, and identifies student misconceptions, provides guidance, and offers continuous feedback.
Selects and uses appropriate assessments, makes appropriate provisions for assessment processes addressing social, cultural, and physical diversity, assesses student performance using established criteria and scoring guides consistent with Kentucky's assessment program, provides opportunities for students to assess and improve performance based on prior assessment results, collects and analyzes assessment data and maintains up-to-date records of student progress, and communicates expectations, criteria for assessment, student progress, and student strengths and weaknesses to parents and students.
Assesses and analyzes the effectiveness of instruction, makes appropriate changes to instruction based upon feedback, reflection, and assessment results, assesses programs and curricula, and proposes appropriate recommendations and needed adjustments.
Initiates collaboration with others and creates situations where collaboration enhances student learning, discusses with parents, students, and others the purpose and scope of collaborative efforts, articulates expectations for each collaborative event, demonstrates productive leadership and team membership skills, secures and makes use of school and community resources presenting differing viewpoints, recognizes and responds appropriately to differences in abilities, contributions, and social and cultural backgrounds, invites colleagues, parents, community representatives, and others to help design and implement collaborative instructional projects, analyzes previous collaborative experiences to improve future experiences, and assesses students' special needs and collaborates with school services and community agencies.
Establishes priorities for professional growth, analyzes student performance to identify professional development needs, solicits input from others for professional development plans, applies knowledge, skills, and processes acquired through professional development to instruction, and modifies own professional development plan to improve instructional performance and promote student learning.
Operates multimedia computers and peripherals, uses computer and technology terminology appropriately, demonstrates knowledge of technology use in business, industry, and society, demonstrates basic knowledge of computer/peripheral parts and installations, creates multimedia presentations, uses computers for word processing, databases, spreadsheets, email, internet, presentations, and other emerging technologies, uses computers and other technologies for distance learning applications, requests and uses appropriate assistive and adaptive devices for students with special needs, designs lessons including technology and human issues for diverse students and learning styles, practices equitable and legal use of computers and technology, facilitates lifelong learning through technology, explores, uses, and evaluates technology resources, applies research-based instructional practices using computers and technology, uses computers and other technology for various learning activities, uses technology to support multiple assessments of student learning, and instructs and supervises students in the ethical and legal use of technology.