Art Teacher

Job Title

Art Teacher for  School Year ()

Franklin Grove Elementary School

Elementary School Teaching

7/7/2026

ASAP

• Illinois State certificate in the teaching field qualifying the teacher to teach at the secondary level.
• Bachelor's Degree
• Ability to function effectively as a member of the school staff.
• Such other requirements as the Board may establish.

Reports to:

Secondary Building Principal

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

Maintains liaison with Parents; communicates as needed.

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

• Teaching in compliance with curricular requirements of the State and of the Board of Education of District 61.
• Remaining current on research, new developments and literature on education, especially elementary and/or the area of special assignment.
• Compliance with Board Policies, Administrative Regulations, and Board-Employee Agreements at the school level.
• Participation 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.
• Participation from time-to-time, in the development of District Policies and Administrative Regulations, on an appointive, elective, or volunteer basis.
• Instructional Delivery: understanding and applying principles of learning, pacing, questioning, grouping, active involvement, and direct vs. indirect instruction.
• Human
  
  Skills:
  
  stimulating students, bringing enthusiasm, concern and care for the worth and dignity of the individual.
• Planning
  
  Skills:
  
  developing goals/objectives based on evaluation of student needs, aptitude, and learning styles; provisioning individual and group learning experiences.
• Evaluation of Students and Programs: constructing and using diagnostic, criterion reference, and achievement tests; maintaining and interpreting records for students, parents, administrators, and teachers.
• Classroom Management: controlling and structuring the learning environment to ensure adherence to rules and self-discipline.
• Resource Utilization: using available resource materials, both academic and human, within and outside the educational plant.

Salary is based upon Schedules A & B of the collective negotiated Agreement.

• Each employee in contractual continuing service shall be evaluated at least once every two (2) years.
• Each employee not in continuing contractual service shall be evaluated once every year.

Handle work which deals mostly with people, objects, equipment in a general setting; depth perception and field of vision are important. Employee regularly is required to bend, stoop, twist, turn, reach, lift up to 50 pounds, carry, pull, push, climb, and kneel; walking and standing approximately 50-75% of each shift. Employee must recognize differences in sound, such as voices/noises that are loud and playful instead of angry and combative;

ability to differentiate tones and volumes in conversation.

The Teacher must ensure that children are supervised at all times, and that children are involved in safe and appropriate activities. There may be a number of situations happening at once, and the Teacher must be prepared to handle accidents and emergencies at any time.

The work environment is representative of a busy and occasionally noisy setting. There may be a number of activities and situations happening at once, and the Teacher will supervise all students at all times.

Position falls under the Decatur Education Association (DEA) Contract - .

Decatur Public Schools is an equal employment opportunity employer with an affirmative action plan.

Benefit information can be found HERE. The Salary Schedule is attached above.