Physics​/Chemistry Teacher

Job Title

Qualifications:

Proper certification as required by the Mississippi Educator Licensure Department. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Reports To:

Principal

Supervises:
Assistant Teacher and Volunteers, if assigned.

Job Goal:
To help students achieve a designated set of behavioral objectives that will contribute to their development as mature, able, and responsible men and women.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Meet and instruct assigned classes in the locations and at the time designated.
• Create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interest of students.
• Prepare for classes assigned and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisor.
• Encourage students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior, and handle own minor discipline problems.
• Employ instructional methods and materials that are most appropriate for meeting stated objectives and have been proven by research to have a positive correlation with pupil learning, while avoiding those known to have negative correlations.
• Strive to implement, by instruction and action, the district's philosophy of education and instructional goals and objectives.
• Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials and facilities.
• Evaluate student programs on a regular basis and provide progress reports as required.
• Maintain accurate, complete and correct records as required by law, district policy and administrative regulation.
• Assist in upholding and enforcing school rules, administrative regulations and Board policy.
• Make provision for being available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional day when required or requested to do so under reasonable terms.
• Attend and participate regularly in faculty meetings.
• Cooperate with other members of the staff in planning instructional goals, objectives and methods.
• Assist in the selection of books, equipment and other instructional materials, when requested.
• Accept a share of responsibility for co-curricular activities, as assigned.
• Work to establish and maintain open lines of communication with students and their parents concerning both the broad academic and behavioral progress of all assigned students.
• Establish and maintain cooperative relations with others.
• Provide for own professional growth, especially in area of assignment through an ongoing program of reading, workshops, seminars, conferences and/or advanced course work at institutions of higher learning.
• Make sure that relevant, quality instructions and assignments are provided for class and substitute teacher when absent.
• Perform out-of-class duty when and where assigned with regularity.
• Perform such other duties as may be assigned by the Principal.

Terms Of Employment:
Salary and work year to be established by the Board of Trustees.

Evaluation:
Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel