#P-1828 Social Studies Department Chair - Brooke Middle School

Social Studies Department Chair

Location:

Brooke Middle School

Qualifications:

Holds a valid teaching certificate, with three years successful teaching experience. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the administration may find appropriate and acceptable.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Administrative Duties
• Conducts department and Professional Learning Community meetings as needed using a prepared agenda.
• Contacts teachers, as directed by the CTE Director or Principal in order to discuss department work.
• Recommends, with the cooperation of teachers, the acquisition of new or additional materials of instruction and software for the department and assists in the scheduling and coordinated usage of these materials.
• Recommends to the CTE Director or Principal individual teaching assignments for the members of the department and presents teaching schedule for the department.
• Assists with interviews for departmental positions in accordance with instructions supplied by the director of Personnel and the CTE Director or Principal.
• Responsible for certifying an annual inventory of instructional supplies and equipment, preparing with teachers a department budget request, approving all department requisitions, supervising the maintenance of department equipment, working with assigned personnel in the formulation of projects and/or requests for available federal or state subsidies.
• Assists with organizing, printing of programs, presentation ceremonies for CTE Awards Night.
• Complies data necessary for the Work-keys Testing, 21st Century performance assessments, placement, credentialing and CTSO's and other data as needed for county, state, and federal accountability.
• Fulfills any other unforeseen departmental responsibilities and curricular duties assigned by the CTE Director, Principal, Superintendent, or his designee.
• Staff Personnel Duties
• Discusses and implements administrative directives with the department.
• Orients teachers to departmental policy and other necessary details.
• Encourages and stimulates enrollment in professional groups and attendance at professional meetings.
• Works with departmental staff in developing long-range plans for the department planning and writing necessary CSO's, benchmark assessments, and other methods of improving the total program of instruction.
• Recommends to the guidance department the level placement of students enrolled in the department after consultation with the classroom teacher where applicable.
• Reports and analyzes the number of students failed and reasons for failure.
• Gives input to assignment of substitute teachers serving in the department.
• Delegates duties, as necessary, to accomplish departmental projects and goals.
• Confers with individual teachers of the department when necessary to assure that the department is working within the guidelines of administrative directives.
• Student Personnel Duties
• Responsible for establishing standards and evaluating progress to determine the degree of achievement and need for curricular change.
• Makes provision for testing programs within the department and is responsible for its design, execution and distribution when applicable.
• Recommends the initiation of curriculum changes.
• Supervises the entrance of pupils or pupil work into school approved contests and co-curricular activities pertaining to the department when appropriate.
• Provides CTE Director with completer lists, assessments of students, and placement data pertaining to student's profile.
• Curriculum Duties
• Determines, with teachers, the need for modification and updating of the total departmental programs through constant evaluation which involves the usage of objective data.
• Answers inquiries regarding courses of study.
• Prepares, with teachers, written curriculum evaluations when necessary.
• Recommends continuing education courses.
• Integrates the work of the department into the total instructional program of the school.
• Suggests, with the cooperation of teachers, books, magazines and pamphlets to be purchased by the school media specialist.

Responsibilities:

• Provides instructional leadership and support within the school building.
• Establishes good public and employee relations.
• Maintains professional work habits.
• Maintains and upgrades his/her professional skills.

Conditions of Employment:

Teachers may be asked for input in the selection of their department chairperson. Serves as a member of countywide Curriculum Organization Committee to Coordinate programs with middle and elementary schools as required by the principal and county.

Term of Employment: 200 days

Salary based on experience and education level per CBOE salary schedule plus competitive benefits package equal to approximately 35% of direct compensation.