District Support Teacher

Position Type:
Classroom Elementary & Secondary Teaching

Date Posted:
6/1/2026

Location:
To Be Determined

Closing Date:
Open Until Filled
District Support Teacher

Reports to:
Campus Principal
Pay Grade: $68,000
Duty Days: 212

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Position Purpose

Delivers rigorous instruction to students in order to promote intellectual, social, and physical growth; ensures that regardless of socioeconomic factors every child is prepared for accelerated learning to compete in a global economy. Provides standards-based, data-driven, differentiated instruction that engages students. Creates safe and supportive learning environments that maximize student learning while supporting campuses through flexible instructional assignments based on district needs.

Position Expectations and Assignment Flexibility

The District Service Teacher position is a district wide instructional support role designed to provide flexible educational services based on campus, student, and district needs. While maintaining all professional responsibilities and qualifications of a classroom teacher, individuals in this position may provide instructional intervention services, classroom support, instructional continuity, short-term coverage, and other assigned teaching duties across campuses, grade levels, and content areas as appropriate.

Assignments may vary throughout the school year in response to district priorities, staffing needs, and student support requirements. The District Service Teacher may be assigned to support one or multiple campuses and may be required to adjust work locations and responsibilities as directed by the District.

In the event of a permanent or intermittent classroom vacancy, the District Service Teacher may be temporarily or permanently assigned to serve as the teacher of record for a classroom assignment. Upon such assignment, the employee will assume all duties and responsibilities associated with the classroom teaching position.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Instructional Planning & Delivery

• Designs clear, well organized, sequential lessons that build on students' prior knowledge; provides opportunities for enrichment as well as differentiations and project-based learning to provide for collaboration, creative thinking, and extended interaction among students.
• Creates developmentally appropriate, standards-driven lessons that reflect evidence-based best practices.
• Develops lessons to meet the needs of diverse learners, adapting methods as needed.
• Communicates clearly and accurately; engages students in a manner that encourages students' persistence and best efforts.
• Promotes complex, higher-order thinking, leading class discussions and activities that provide opportunities for deeper learning.
• Ensures student understanding by consistency monitoring, giving immediate feedback, and making lesson adjustments as appropriate.
• Assesses and documents student mastery of curriculum objectives and student progress using frequent, appropriate, on-going, and multiple assessment tools; employs interventions and formal/informal assessment procedures, including standardized tests, formative assessments, performance tasks, enrichments, and observations.

Knowledge of Students & Student Learning

• Reinforces and demonstrates the belief that all students have the potential to achieve at high levels; supports all students in their pursuit of social-emotional learning and academic success.
• Acquires, analyzes, and uses background information (such as familial, cultural, educational, linguistic, and developmental characteristics) to engage students in the learning process.
• Facilitates each student's learning by employing evidence-based practices and concepts related to learning and social-emotional development.

Content Knowledge & Expertise

• Understands the major concepts, key themes, multiple perspectives, assumptions, processes of inquiry, structure, and real-world applications of assigned grade-level and subject-area content.
• Designs and executes quality lessons that are consistent with the concepts of assigned discipline; aligns to state standards and demonstrates content expertise.
• Demonstrates content-specific pedagogy that meets the needs of diverse learners using engaging instructional materials to connect prior content knowledge to new learning.

Learning Environment

• Creates a mutually respectful, collaborative, and safe community of learners by using knowledge of students' development and backgrounds.
• Organizes the classroom in a safe and accessible manner that maximizes learning.
• Establishes, implements, and communicates consistent routines for effective classroom management, including clear expectations for student behavior.
• Leads and maintains the classroom where students are actively engaged in learning as indicated by their level of motivation and on-task behavior.

Data-Driven Practice

• Implements both formal and informal methods of measuring student progress.
• Sets individual and group learning goals for students by using preliminary data; communicates these goals…