Part Time Elementary Teacher

Rutherford County Schools Cliffside Elementary School - Cliffside, North Carolina

Starting Date: Immediately

Under general supervision, serves as a classroom teacher for elementary children and creates a flexible program and environment favorable to learning and personal growth in accordance with each student’s ability.

• Provides learning experiences and teaches the standard course of study prescribed by the district approved curriculum.
• Develops and uses instructional material suitable for verbal and/or visual instruction of students with a wide range of mental, physical and emotional maturity.
• Provides individual and group instruction designed to meet individual needs and help the students make a satisfactory transition to school.
• Establishes and maintains standards of student control required to achieve effective participation in all activities.
• Evaluates academic and social growth of students and keeps appropriate records.
• Provides appropriate instruction and activities for students to meet school/district policies, goals and objectives.
• Communicates with parents through a variety of means.
• Holds parent conferences to discuss the individual student progress and interpret the school program.
• Identifies student needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students solve health and learning problems.
• Creates an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive displays such as bulletin boards, interest centers, etc.
• Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and/or professional growth activities and university courses.
• Participates cooperatively with the appropriate administrator to develop the method by which s/he will be evaluated in conformance with district guidelines.
• Selects and requisitions instructional materials.

Bachelor’s degree and licensed by the state of North Carolina.

• Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, etc. Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally; and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics of data, people or things.
• Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, contracts, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, policies, etc. using prescribed formats.
• Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form.
• Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal and counseling terminology.
• Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving of instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.

Position Type: Part-Time

• Citizenship, residency or work visa required