Job Title: Elementary Teacher Succession Plan Developed: Department: Instructional Reports to: Director of Elementary Revision Date: May 11, 2015 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt Position Overview: Provides group academic instruction including assessment, development and implementation of elementary curriculum within an elementary classroom setting. The Elementary Teacher also collaborates with Elementary Speech Pathologist to implement speech, language, and pragmatic goals for students in the academic classroom. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. • Serves as case manager to the students in the class – communicating with parents, administrators & individual therapists on an ongoing basis. • Provides therapeutic reading intervention using Association Method and/or Neuhaus methodologies as determined through initial assessment or previous instructional program outlines. • Provides progress reports at scheduled times during academic year. • Maintains records as required by law, establishment's policy, and administrative regulations. • Attends meetings and student conferences as the case manager. • Participates in other activities to promote professional growth. • Plans academic lessons that incorporate language-rich goals in each subject area. • Displays strong classroom management skills. • Individualizes academic instruction to meet multiple grade levels in each class. • Supports Intra Curricular Activity Teachers (ICATs) as needed within their classroom support times. • Coordinates class field trips. Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Competencies & Other Skills/Abilities: • Must demonstrate leadership, dependability, managing people, delegation, innovation, initiative, customer service, interpersonal, team-work, sound judgment, self-management and adaptability skills. • Ability to create a rigorous, well managed, risk-free, and nurturing classroom environment that promotes academic and social excellence for every student. Education/Experience: Four year college or university program certificate, graduate degree in education preferred; or two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Computer Skills: Highly proficient in MS Office applications Certificates and Licenses: Valid Texas Teaching License 1 Elementary Teacher Job Summary Supervisory Responsibilities: This job supervises the Para Educator. Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision and ability to adjust focus. The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. ______________________________________ ACKNOWLEDGED: Supervisor/Manager ________________________ Date ______________________________________ ACKNOWLEDGED: Employee _______________________ Date _______________________________________ PRINT: Employee Name 2 Elementary Teacher Job Summary