5 Grade TEACHER

Starting Date: Aug 3, 2026

Reports to: Principal

Supervises: May coordinate and direct the activities of teacher assistants.

Purpose: To plan, organize and present instruction and instructional environments that help students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their educational and social development.

• Management of Instructional Time: The teacher has materials, supplies, and equipment ready at the start of each lesson; gets the class started quickly; gets students on task quickly; maintains a high level of student time‑on‑task.
• Management of Student Behavior: The teacher has established rules and procedures for routine administrative matters, verbal participation, talk during activities, and student movement; frequently monitors behavior; stops inappropriate behavior promptly and consistently while maintaining dignity.
• Instructional Presentation: The teacher begins lessons with a review, introduces objectives, speaks fluently, presents concepts in understandable language, provides examples and demos, assigns tasks students handle with success, asks appropriate questions, conducts the lesson at a brisk pace with smooth transitions, ensures assignment clarity, and summarizes main points.
• Instructional Monitoring of Student Performance: Maintains clear standards, circulates work, checks performance, uses oral, written, and other checks, poses questions clearly.
• Instructional Feedback: Provides feedback on correctness to encourage growth; gives prompt feedback on out‑of‑class work; confirms correct responses; offers sustaining feedback after incorrect or no responses.
• Facilitating Instruction: Uses an instructional plan aligned with school and system‑wide goals; uses diagnostic data to develop and revise objectives; maintains records; uses resources to support instruction.
• Interacting Within the Educational Environment: Treats all students fairly; interacts effectively with students, co‑workers, parents, and community.
• Performing Non‑Instructional Duties: Carries out non‑instructional duties as assigned; adheres to laws, policies, and regulations; follows a professional‑development plan and demonstrates growth.
• Additional
  
  Job Functions:
  
  Performs other related work as required.

Degree in education or related area that qualifies for licensure as a teacher by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

• Physical Requirements: Ability to use a variety of equipment, lift/carry small objects, consistent with light work.
• Data Conception: Ability to compare and judge characteristics of data, people, or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Ability to speak, signal, convey information, and receive instructions.
• Language Ability: Ability to read correspondence, prepare reports, instructional materials, in prescribed format.
• Intelligence: Ability to apply logical/scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, draw conclusions.
• Verbal Aptitude: Ability to record, deliver, explain procedures, follow instructions, communicate in technical languages.
• Numerical Aptitude: Ability to use mathematical formulas, arithmetic, decimals, percentages, descriptive statistics, inference.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Ability to inspect items for length, width, shape.
• Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate hand/eye movements with office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity: Ability to handle various items, handle with minimal coordination.
• Color Discrimination: Ability to differentiate colors.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Ability to deal with people, adapt under stress, handle emergencies.
• Physical Communication: Ability to talk and hear, communicate via telephone.

• Constantly monitor safety and well‑being of students, especially in inclusive activities.
• Motivate students.
• Maintain a clean and orderly environment; perform general clerical duties.
• Maintain order and discipline in a classroom.
• Operate common office machines.
• Maintain basic files and records.
• Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships as required by assignments.

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.