Elementary PE Teacher

Elementary PE Teacher for  School Year

Job

• Position Type:
  Elementary School Teaching
• Date Posted: 3/13/2026
• Location:
  
  Muffley Elementary School
• Date Available:
  
  08/2026

Title:

Certified Teacher

• Illinois State Certification in the teaching field.
• Bachelor's Degree.
• Ability to function effectively as a member of the school staff.

Reports To:

The Principal

• Students
• Student Teachers
• Assists the Principal with the evaluation of Teaching Assistants.

Maintains liaison with parents, communicating as needed or when requested by parents or administrators.

To help students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their development as mature, able, and responsible men and women.

• Maintains an instructional atmosphere that is conducive to a high quality educational program.
• Utilizes a variety of instructional strategies to accommodate individual differences.
• Provides feedback which includes constructive criticism that motivates students.
• Sets high expectations for daily and long-term student achievement.
• Organizes and arranges classroom to facilitate learning and minimize student disruption.
• Sets limits of student behavior that are defined, communicated, and monitored.
• Keeps up with current developments, research, and literature in his/her teaching field and in the field of education.
• Keeps parents and students informed of each student's academic progress.
• Teaches in full compliance with curricular requirements of the State and of the Board.
• Complies with Board Policies, Administrative Regulations, and Board-Employee Agreements at the school level.
• Participates on an appointive, elective, or volunteer basis in the curriculum development process at the building and district levels, as required to periodically review all curricular areas to keep them up-to-date.
• Plans for the health, safety, and physical well-being of students during instruction.
• Supervises, classifies, evaluates and guides students.
• Utilizes community resources for the enrichment of the educational program.
• Assists in maintaining good school‑community relations.
• Participates, from time to time, in the development of District Policies and Administrative Regulations, on an appointive, elective, or volunteer basis.
• Is responsible for student safety education and accident prevention.
• Reports all unsafe conditions to the school principal promptly.
• Reports all accidents or injuries to the principal as soon as possible.
• Supervises and intervenes to regulate student behavior so as to alleviate the risk that inappropriate behaviors will place students or staff at risk of harm.

Salary is based on Schedules A and B of the collective negotiated Agreement.

Employees in contractual continuing service are evaluated at least once every two years; employees not in continuing contractual service are evaluated once per year.

Handles work involving people, objects, and equipment in a general setting. Requires depth perception and field of vision. Employee regularly bends, stoops, twists, turns, reaches, lifts (up to 50 pounds), carries, pulls, pushes, climbs, and kneels; walks and stands approximately 50-75% of each shift. Must recognize differences in sound, such as voices/noises that are loud and playful versus angry and combative;

ability to differentiate tones and volumes.

Must ensure children are supervised at all times, involved in safe and appropriate activities, and be prepared to handle accidents and emergencies. Must handle multiple situations simultaneously.

The work environment is busy and occasionally noisy, with multiple activities and situations occurring concurrently. The teacher will supervise all students at all times. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.

Salary Schedule provided by Decatur Education Association. Benefit information available per contract.