Lower Elementary Physical Education; PE teacher

The dePaul School for Dyslexia is a specialized, independent school dedicated to the education of children in K-8th grades with dyslexia and related language-based difficulties, with the primary goal of enabling these students to achieve academic and personal success.

The dePaul School embraces a school-wide vision and commitment to the following core values:

• RESPECT the child: showing understanding and acceptance of their challenges.
• TEACH the child: - with, research-based proven curriculum and methodologies.
• CHALLENGE the child: - to meet their potential, setting appropriate expectations.
• INSPIRE the child: - promoting strengths, fostering creativity and building self-confidence through praise and encouragement.

The dePaul School Fast Facts:

• Founded in Clearwater in 1983
• Independent,501(c)(3) non-profit organization
• Full-time day school for students in 1st - 8th grades
• Signature Orton-Gillingham based remediation methodology, dePaul Structured Linguistics (DPSL)
• Appropriately leveled and paced classes and workload
• Compassionate and challenging environment
• Small class sizes (Max 12)

Title: Elementary School Physical Education Teacher

Reports To: Principal

Do you want to work in an environment where student needs are at the forefront of all decision-making? At The dePaul School for Dyslexia, we focus on identifying the needs of our learners and filling in specific learning gaps utilizing research-based, explicit, sequential, multisensory teaching methods. We support our staff with ongoing professional development to stay current on best practices for assessing teaching students with language-based learning differences.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Develops and implements curriculum and shows written evidence of preparation as required for Physical Education.
• Presents the subject matter according to guidelines established by school administration.
• Plans and uses appropriate instructional/learning strategies, activities, materials, and equipment.
• Cooperates with other members of the staff in planning and implementing instructional goals, objectives, and methods.
• Uses technologies in the teaching/learning/ assessing process.
• Consistently assesses student achievement through formal and informal assessments.
• Supervise students at all times.
• Coordinate teacher responsibilities with supervisor including lunch duty, carline, parent teacher conferences and open houses.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university required.
• Teaching experience preferred.
• Experience working with children with language-based learning differences preferred.

Benefits:

• Part time hours
• All school holidays off