Third Grade Teacher

Third Grade Teacher

Location:

Burke County Schools Forest Hill Elementary School, Morganton, North Carolina

• Date Posted: 6/17/2026
• Final date to receive applications: 7/3/2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
• Starting Date: 8/17/2026
• Job
• Location:
  
  Forest Hill Elementary
• Terms of
  
  Contract:
  
  Teacher Contract, 10 months, full-time, benefit-eligible
• Monthly Salary:
  State Salary Schedule for Teachers (plus local supplement)
• Reports To:
  
  Principal
• FLSA: EXEMPT

• We are seeking a passionate, student-centered School Teacher to join our academic team. The ideal candidate will create an engaging learning environment that supports students’ intellectual, social, and emotional development in third grade. This role requires strong classroom management skills, subject matter expertise, and a commitment to fostering a positive and inclusive school culture.

• Candidates must hold or be eligible for a North Carolina Teaching license.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function proficiently. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Develops lesson plans and instructional materials, providing effective teaching strategies.
• Maintains effective classroom management, recognizes and addresses learning and behavior issues. Understand developmental appropriateness of materials and differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all learners.
• Evaluates accomplishments of students on a regular basis using multiple assessment methods; provides progress and interim reports for feedback.
• Communicates with parents in a timely manner; maintains positive and constructive communication with students, staff, parents and community.
• Protects students, materials and facilities taking necessary and reasonable precautions.
• Upholds and enforces board policy, district goals, administrative procedures and school rules and regulations.
• Adheres to health and safety policies.
• Maintains appropriate work habits, including regular and punctual attendance and appropriate use of conference and planning time.
• Keeps current in subject matter knowledge and learning theory;
  Attends workshops, and PLCs, as well as staff department, curricular development, and staff-development sessions as required.
• Respects the confidentiality of records and information regarding students, parents, and teachers in accordance with accepted professional ethics and state and federal laws.
• Shares responsibility during the school day for the supervision of students in various areas of the school.
• Ability to perform non-instructional duties as assigned.

• Teachers lead in their classrooms and the teaching profession.
• Teachers demonstrate leadership in the school.
• Teachers advocate for schools and students.
• Teachers demonstrate high ethical standards.

• Teachers provide an environment in which each child has a positive, nurturing relationship with caring adults; with an environment that is inviting, respectful, supportive, inclusive, and flexible.
• Teachers embrace diversity in the school community and in the world.
• Teachers treat students as individuals.
• Teachers adapt their teaching for the benefit of students with special needs.
• Teachers work collaboratively with the families and significant adults in the lives of their students.

• Teachers align their instruction with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
• Teachers know the content appropriate to their teaching specialty.
• Teachers recognize the interconnectedness of content areas/disciplines.
• Teachers make instruction relevant to students.

• Teachers know how learning takes place and the appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of their students.
• Teachers plan…