Long Term Substitute Teacher

Substitute Teacher

Do you want to be a part of something BIG? Do you have a passion for education? Do you want to impact the lives of students? As leaders in the education staffing space since 2000, ESS specializes in placing qualified staff in daily, long-term, and permanent K-12 school district positions including substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, and other school support staff. Over the last 22 years, we have innovated education staffing to provide dynamic solutions to school districts and professional opportunities to passionate educators.

Our team serves over 5 million students with a pool of 85,000 substitute and permanent employees throughout 34 states. Internally, the ESS team is comprised of 650 individuals with a passion for education working together to ensure our 900 partner districts experience valuable education every day.

At ESS our motto is, "Everyday counts!" We take opportunities every day to grow and better our company as well as our employees.

The Long Term Substitute Teacher acts as the teacher in charge of the classroom when a teacher is absent. As a substitute teacher, you'll become an integral part of a school's educational team, amplifying your teaching expertise while maximizing the learning experience for students!

An ESS Long Term substitute teacher provides classroom instruction in the absence of a regular teacher. This person creates and teaches lesson plans, aids students in understanding subject matter, and ensures that regular classroom routines are followed in accordance with school guidelines.

• Provide meaningful instruction to students in assigned classrooms while the regular teacher is absent.
• Review and implement the routines, procedures, lesson plans, and curriculum objectives.
• Establish and maintain a safe and orderly classroom environment.
• Report any student injuries, illness, and serious discipline problems to the school administration.
• Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
• Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
• Supervise students' fieldwork, internship, and research work.
• Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
• Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
• Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
• Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
• Issues written and oral instructions; assigns duties and examines work for exactness, neatness, and conformance to policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as directed by the school administration
• Other duties as assigned or as become evident.

• DE Federal FBI Fingerprinting from Delaware
• Child Protections Registry Results*
• Negative TB test*

* All clearances must be from within last 365 days

Language, Math and Reasoning

Language Skills

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in on and one and small group situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.

Math Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Abilities

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but involved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Bachelors Degree required

There are no specific requirements for this position.

Must Pass DE Background Check and Child Protection Registry

Excellent skills in Microsoft Windows

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities…