Middle School PE​/Health Teacher

Position Summary

This is a temporary part-time (0.4 FTE) position for the 2026/2027 school year. Anticipated daily schedule: TBD, teaching 2 periods a day. The above salary references a 1.0 FTE salary. The physical education and health teacher is the primary instructional delivery for student health and wellness, and fitness and growth. The educator collaborates with school team members and provides strategies and supports for increasing student movement and fitness within the regular classroom.

The position is demanding, varied and complex. The educator must be collaborative, a relationship builder, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and be well trained in physical education content knowledge, and effective and engaging teaching strategies.

Essential Functions:

1. Demonstrate motivation and enthusiasm with a genuine passion for teaching all learners.
2. Demonstrate the ability to create a student-centered classroom.
3. Facilitates student's physical, cognitive and social and emotional learning through lessons designed to sequentially develop skills appropriate to their ability and confidence levels.
4. Provides engaging, fun, and effective instruction that helps build a health and wellness foundation for students.
5. Teaches knowledge and skills in physical fitness using the Oregon Core Standards.
6. Implements Oregon Core Standards with rigor, purpose, and planning.
6. Provides maximum participation for all students; differentiates as needed to ensure all students experience success.
7. Analyzes, demonstrates, and explains basic skills, knowledge and strategies of games, rhythms, and fundamentals of body movement.
8. Develops engaging and effective lesson plans and supplementary materials.
9. Provides ongoing formative feedback to students. 10. Demonstrates a growth mindset individually and supports this development with all students. 11. Communicates in developmentally appropriate ways through a humane, sensitive approach that clearly communicates that every student, regardless of ability, can succeed and will benefit from a physically active, healthy lifestyle. 12. Implements and supports school-wide programs to include PBIS, Growth Mindset, etc.

13. Collaborates with school team members in providing ideas and support to increase health and wellness, movement and activity within the classroom. 14. Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior to provide an orderly, productive environment in the physical education areas that supports and aligns with the school-wide behavior framework (ie. PBIS). 16. Provides appropriate safety instruction and makes safety checks on equipment and field areas to ensure the overall safety of students.

17. Evaluates academic and social growth of students and keeps appropriate records to include report cards, attendance records, checklists, and other recordkeeping activities as appropriate by level and assigned by supervisor. 18. Communicates with parents, school counselors and administrator on student progress. 19. Focuses on making learning visible through effective student engagement. 20. Performs other duties as assigned.

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.