Certificated Guest; Substitute Teacher

Position: 038-2025: Certificated Guest (Substitute) Teacher
On-Call, as needed to fill absences 038-2025 posting

Washougal School District

Posting for the 2025-26 School Year

Position Type:
Substitute, on-call, as needed

Position Title:

Certificated Guest (Substitute) Teacher

Required

Certifications:

MUST have a Washington State (OSPI) teaching or substitute teaching certificate

Position Location:

District Wide

Position Posting:
September 16, 2025, open until filled

Position Begins:
September 16, 2025

Daily rates of pay: half day (3.5 hours) or less $90 more than half day - full day $180 (7 hours)

POSTED:
September 16, 2025

The Washougal Strategic Plan is centered on our commitment to know, nurture and challenge all students to rise and includes our six guiding pillars that steer our work and prioritize our decisions and actions:

* Effective Instruction - We will invest in attracting, retaining, and developing excellent teachers and staff. We will provide relevant, rigorous and supportive instruction with high expectations for all students.

* Career & College Readiness - We will prepare students to contribute to the community they live in, whether in skilled trades, higher education, or professional careers.

* Equity - We will engage in intentional efforts to identify disparities that create opportunity gaps, and take action to eliminate the achievement gap. We will develop and strengthen students' agency, so they are prepared for careers, college and life.

* Educational Engagement - We will ensure all students are involved in innovative, artistic, creative, vocational, and intellectual pursuits, so they develop confidence, understanding, and agency in the classroom and beyond.

* Partnerships to Support Students - We will partner to build culturally responsive schools, where all children are known, supported and connected through positive relationships in a safe environment.

* Stewardship of Resources - We will maximize resources to create opportunities for our students through a transparent budget process that aligns with our priorities for student achievement and operations of the district. Every dollar matters.

Purpose

The Washougal School District is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining a highly qualified workforce that appreciates the diversity of our community and is committed to practices that are responsive to the needs of all students and families. The Washougal School District desires inclusive schools and classrooms that celebrate the diversity of our school and community. We welcome candidates representing the diversity of the world.

A Washougal School District educator knows, nurtures, and challenges all students with high expectations, a love of learning, and a focus on helping every student rise to their highest potential and learn at high levels. Effective educators recognize individual students' strengths and needs, and use multiple strategies to help all students be successful while creating collaborative, equitable, safe, and welcoming communities of learners.

The job of a Certificated Guest (Substitute) Teacher is to facilitate student success in academic and interpersonal skills through implementing district approved curriculum; documenting teaching and student progress/activities/outcomes; addressing specific educational needs of students providing a safe and optimal learning environment; and providing feedback to students, parents and administration regarding student progress, expectations, goals, etc.

Essential Functions

* Teach to district approved course goals and objectives.

* Instruct pupils in citizenship and basic subject matter specified by state law and administrative regulations of the school district.

* Provide individual and group instruction so that each pupil can achieve scholastic educational objectives.

* Use instructional materials suitable for the instruction of pupils with wide ranges of mental, physical, and emotional maturation.

* Maintain standard of pupil behavior needed to achieve effective participation in all activities.

* Maintain records as required or appropriate.

* Subscribe to the notion "student success is a teacher's paramount responsibility".

* Supervise pupils in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned periods.

* Perform other duties as assigned.

Other Functions

* Assists other personnel for the purpose of ensuring an efficient and effective work environment.

Job Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

SKILLS are required to perform single, technical tasks with a need to occasionally upgrade skills in order to meet changing job conditions. Specific skills required to satisfactorily perform the functions of the job include: controlling and motivating students; maintaining accurate records; and using pertinent software applications; adhering to safety practices; operating standard office equipment.

KNOWLEDGE is required of best professional practices in math. Must be able to perform algebra and/or geometry; read a variety of manuals, write documents following prescribed formats, and/or present…