Teacher - Early Childhood Wonder - Harrison

Job Title:

Teacher – Early Childhood Wonder Years - Harrison
Department:
Early Childhood
Pay Grade:
Teacher’s Salary Schedule
FLSA Status:
Exempt

Reports to:

Principal – Early Childhood

This position is responsible for providing support to the instructional process by serving as a teacher with specific responsibility for ensuring early childhood age students’ success in academics, interpersonal skills and activities of daily living, supervising students within the classroom and other assigned areas, developing lesson plans and delivering group and individual instruction within established curriculum guidelines, collaborating with other teachers, other professional staff, and administrators in addressing instructional and/or classroom issues, and responding to a wide range of inquiries from students’ parents or guardians regarding instructional program and student progress.

• Instructs students improving their success in academic, interpersonal and daily living skills through a defined course of study.
• Monitors students in a variety of educational environments providing a safe and positive learning environment.
• Manages student behavior providing a safe and optimal learning environment. Assesses student progress towards objectives, expectations, and/or goals providing feedback to students, parents and administration.
• Collaborates with instructional staff, other school personnel, parents and a variety of community resources improving the overall quality of student outcomes, achieving established classroom objectives in support of the school improvement plan.
• Advises parents and/or legal guardians of student progress for the purpose of communicating expectations, student’s achievements, developing methods for improvement and/or reinforcing classroom goals in the home environment.
• Administers developmental testing programs, subject specific assessments, etc. for the purpose of assessing student competency levels and/or developing individual learning plans.
• Counsels students improving performance, health status, problem solving techniques and a variety of personal issues. Demonstrates methods required to perform classroom and/or subject specific assignments providing an effective program that addresses individual student requirements.
• Directs student teachers, paraprofessionals, volunteers and/or student workers providing an effective classroom program and addressing the needs of individual students.
• Facilitates student learning achieving success in academic, interpersonal and daily living skills through defined lesson plans.
• Maintains a variety of manual and electronic documents, files, and records providing up-to-date information and/or information and/or historical reference in accordance with established administrative guidelines and legal requirements.
• Participates in a variety of meetings and workshops conveying and/or gathering information required to perform functions.
• Prepares a variety of materials documenting student progress and meeting mandated requirements.
• Reports health and safety issues to assigned administrator and appropriate agencies maintaining students’ personal safety, a positive learning environment and complying with regulatory requirements and established guidelines.
• Responds to emergency situations resolving immediate safety concerns and/or directing to appropriate personnel for resolution.
• Responds to inquiries from a variety of sources resolving issues, providing information and/or direction.
• Performs other related duties as required/assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university, required.
• Job related experience with increasing levels of responsibility is required.

• Missouri Teacher Certification, required.
• Qualified, as defined by Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, required.
• Must pass a Criminal Background Clearance, the results of which must be satisfactory to the District, required.

• Knowledge of basic math, including calculations using fractions, percentages, and/or…