Substitute Teacher

Poplarville School District

The mission of the Poplarville School District is to serve all students by providing a high-quality education in a safe learning environment.

Substitute Teacher

• High School Graduate/ GED
• Workshop completion required
• Teaching Certificate preferred

Principal

To enable each child to pursue his or her education as smoothly and completely as possible in the absence of the regular teacher.

• Supervision of assigned students at ALL times.
• Reports to the building principals or designee upon arrival at the school building.
• Reviews with the principal, department head, or team leader all plans and schedules to be followed during the teaching day.
• Maintain as fully possible the established routines/procedures of the school and classrooms to which is assigned.
• Teaches the lesson outline and or activities described in the Substitute Teacher’s Guide as prepared by the absent teacher.
• Consults as appropriate, with the building principal, department head, or team leader before initiating and teaching or other procedures not specified in the Substitute Teacher’s Guide.
• Assumes responsibilities for overseeing pupil behavior in class and during lunch and recess periods.
• Reports in writing, on the form provided by the school secretary, on the day’s activities at the conclusion of each teaching day.
• Follows all policies, rules and procedures to which regular teachers are subject and which good teaching practice dictates.
• Performs such other tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as the immediate supervisor may from time to time assign.

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.

• A. Sedentary work:
  Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
• B. Light work:
  Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
• C. Medium work:
  Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• D. Heavy work:
  Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• E. Very heavy work:
  Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

• A. Climbing:
  Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.
• B. Balancing:
  Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
• C. Stooping:
  Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• D. Kneeling:
  Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• E. Crouching:
  Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• F. Crawling:
  Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• G. Reaching:
  Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• H. Standing:
  Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• I. Walking:
  Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• J. Pushing:
  Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• K. Pulling:
  Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• L. Lifting:
  Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects…