**TEACHING POSITION

**[Job Title[: Teacher (PreK-12)

**[Reports to[: Principal

**[FLSA Status[: X[Exempt Salaried Non-Exempt Hourly

[Status: X[Full Time Part Time Hourly **X[Salary

**[Date Revised[: January 2024

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• Ability to enhance academic performance and support for implementation of the school district student achievement goals.
• Competence in content knowledge appropriate to the teaching position.
• Capability in planning and preparing for instruction.
• Skilled to implement variety of instructional strategies.
• Proficiency to apply methods to monitor student learning.
• Capability in classroom management.

Uses a variety of strategies to deliver and monitor instruction that meet the multiple learning needs of students.

Engages in professional growth.

Fulfills professional responsibilities established by the school district.

Teaches knowledge and skills, utilizing the Iowa Core, and using the course of study adopted by the Board of Education and appropriate curriculum publications as guidelines in teaching individual course content.

Instruct students in citizenship and basic subject matter specified in state law, district outcomes, administrative regulations, and procedures of the school district.

Develops lesson plans and instructional activities, which stress complex thinking and mastery of student outcomes.

Provide opportunities for students to develop skills as collaborative workers and effective communicators.

Encourages students to think independently, express original ideas, and work well on their own.

Designs learning activities that will relate course content to the physical world and allow students to transfer what they learn to real-life applications.

Adapts activities to provide individual, small group, or remedial instruction to meet the needs of the individual pupil.