Long Term Substitute School Counselor

Overview

Position: Substitute/Long-Term Substitute Teacher

Location: Twin Ridge Elementary School

Date Posted: 7/18/2025

Date Available: ASAP

Closing Date: Open until Filled

Daily work hours: 8:30am – 4:00pm

Salary: $24.16 per hour

Benefits: Non-Benefited

Position type/tenure: Substitute/Long-Term Substitute Teacher; position available tentatively from August 13, 2025

• Provide for instructional needs and interests of students with the aid of appropriate and effective daily lesson planning.
• Create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and where classroom time is utilized effectively.
• Demonstrate the use of a variety of teaching techniques and instructional resources and materials to implement approved curriculum.
• Use evaluation effectively to promote student growth and development intellectually, physically, socially, and emotionally.
• Demonstrate fair, firm, and consistent behavior towards students and promote self-discipline among students.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills and positive interpersonal relations with students, parents, staff, and community.
• Guide the learning process toward the achievement of school system goals and objectives by following school board policies and administrative procedures.
• Assist administration and other staff members in reaching the mission for the school by applying ethical standards in professional relationships.
• Strive to maintain and improve professional competencies.
• Supervise students in a variety of school settings.
• Maintain appropriate records.
• Monitor appropriate use and care of equipment, materials, and facilities.
• Regular and predictable attendance.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the school principal.

• An Associate’s degree or 60 college credits.

None.

• Knowledge and use of culturally responsive practices.
• Knowledge of community resources.
• Regular and predictable attendance.
• Capability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
• Bilingual (Spanish).
• Familiarity with FCPS policies, goals and programs.

• Ability to speak in an understandable voice with sufficient volume to be heard in normal conversation and on the telephone and in addressing groups.
• Ability to travel to school and other local locations, as well as state meetings, sometimes with little notice.
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress.
• Ability to spend long hours sitting.
• Ability to reach with hands and arms.
• Sufficient manual dexterity to grasp, handle, manipulate, and/or feel objects and use office technology.
• Sufficient mobility to move about the work area.
• Sufficient vision to read and comprehend printed materials, see distant objects with clarity, and identify and distinguish objects.
• Sufficient hearing to hear and comprehend conversations in person and on the telephone, as well as distinguish sounds up to twenty (20) feet.
• Occasionally climb or balance; occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Occasionally lift fifteen (15) pounds.

Moderate noise (classroom/office environment with computers, printers, and telephones; regular conversations within classrooms/offices, cubicles, hallways, and conference rooms; meetings one-on-one, in small groups, and large settings).

• Possess a Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree from an accredited institution.
• Demonstrated outstanding written and oral communication skills.
• Capable of performing the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.

Possess MSDE issued professional teacher certificate with the appropriate content endorsement.

• Bilingual (Spanish).
• Familiarity with the FCPS policies, goals and programs.

FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Note: This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed by an employee holding this position. It is not written to include a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. Nothing in this description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities or add required qualifications at any time.