First Grade Teacher Standard

Certified
- Classroom Teacher
- Elementary
- Primary Grades

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Start Date

Open Date 10/21/2026

Closing Date

Under the general supervision of a site administrator, the Classroom Teacher serves as a licensed educator whose primary responsibility is the direct educational service of students. The Classroom Teacher plans, delivers, assesses, and continuously improves instruction to support student learning, growth, and achievement. The Classroom Teacher is responsible for meeting requirements established by applicable federal law, state law, regulation, licensure standards, Board policy, District administrative regulations, school procedures, and the negotiated agreement as they relate to the classroom teacher position.

The Classroom Teacher is responsible for the full scope of professional responsibilities associated with serving as a licensed educator and teacher of record. These responsibilities include instruction, supervision, planning, assessment, classroom management, student support, communication, documentation, collaboration, professional conduct, and assigned school responsibilities. Professional responsibilities shall be performed consistent with the employee's assignment and the negotiated agreement. The negotiated agreement governs when and under what conditions professional responsibilities may be required, including applicable workday, preparation time, and compensation provisions.

The Classroom Teacher essential duties include:

• Provide direct educational service to students through instruction, supervision, assessment, feedback, intervention, enrichment, and student support.
• Serve as the teacher of record for assigned students, courses, grade levels, instructional programs, or content areas.
• Implement District-approved curriculum, Nevada Academic Content Standards, adopted instructional materials, school improvement priorities, classroom procedures, and school wide expectations.
• Exercise professional judgment to plan, prepare, deliver, assess, and continuously improve instruction based on student learning needs, grade-level or course expectations, classroom conditions, and evidence of student progress.
• Prepare lessons, review and evaluate student work, plan instruction, contact and conference with parents/guardians and administration, and complete required training or professional tasks consistent with the employee's assignment and the negotiated agreement.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and complete records, including attendance, grades, assessment results, student progress documentation, parent/guardian communication, and other records required by the employee's assignment or applicable student plans.
• Serve as a proctor during assessments and complete required assessment-related training as applicable to the employee's assignment.
• Establish and maintain a safe, respectful, inclusive, accessible, and well-managed classroom environment that supports student learning, engagement, and appropriate conduct.
• Supervise students and support appropriate student conduct in classrooms and other school-related settings, including hallways, playgrounds, cafeterias, arrival and dismissal areas, transitions, bus, yard, hall, lunch, recess, extracurricular activities, school events, athletic events, graduation, field trips, and emergency situations, consistent with the employee's assignment and the negotiated agreement.
• Promptly report student safety concerns, suspected misconduct, inappropriate conduct, emergency concerns, and other school-related concerns through appropriate District or school procedures.
• Implement and participate in interventions, accommodations, modifications, supports, MTSS processes, student…