Job Description
Definition
Under general supervision, plans, organizes, and presents instruction and instructional environments appropriate for pre-k students, facilitating their development in all domains (physical, cognitive, approaches to learning, social-emotional, and language.) The employee in this position will teach the approved preschool curriculum. The employee also serves as a Case Manager for assigned students and is responsible for the development and implementation of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) as well as the completion of the Child Outcome Summary Form (COSF), if applicable to assigned students.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Responsible for planning, organizing, and presenting instruction and providing instructional environments that help pre-k students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their development.
• Provides a variety of learning experiences and materials. Teaches the course of study prescribed by the District.
• Develops and uses a variety of instructional materials suitable for verbal and/or visual instruction of students with a wide range of mental, physical, and emotional maturity.
• Provides individual and group instruction designed to meet individual needs and motivate students.
• Establishes and maintains standards of student discipline appropriate to pre-k students.
• Evaluates growth in all developmental domains of students and keep appropriate records.
• Provides appropriate instruction and activities for students to meet school/district policies, goals, and objectives.
• Communicates with families through a variety of means.
• Offers at least three (3) parent conferences to discuss the individual student’s progress.
• Identifies student needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students reach their full potential.
• Creates an effective environment for learning.
• Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and/or professional growth activities and university courses.
• Selects and requisitions instructional materials; maintains inventory records.
• Cooperates in school-wide supervision of students during out-of-classroom activities.
• Participates in faculty and/or district committees and the sponsorship of student activities.
• Experience with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
• Experience with Smartboard© and other forms of technology.
• Performs other related work as required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Skilled in assessment and using its data for teaching and learning.
• Ability to meet the needs of all learners.
• Ability to plan, coordinate, and continuously improve instruction.
• Ability to analyze situations, determine possible options, and make appropriate decisions based on the facts.
• Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for students, etc.
• Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people or things.
• Ability to communicate effectively in written and oral form.
• Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from administrators.
• Ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc.
• Ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials,
etc., using the prescribed format.
• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Ability to manage instructional time.
• Ability to manage student behavior.
• Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with students, teachers, parents, and administrators.
• Ability to consult with parents, teachers, and the community to enhance the learning of students.
• Ability to monitor student performance.
• Ability to interact within the educational environment.
• Ability to perform non-instructional duties as assigned.
• Understands the growth and development of preschool students.
Physical Requirements
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee occasionally is required to sit and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Must be able to perform light work exerting up to 30 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up 30 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Must possess the visual acuity to prepare data, work with record processes, and do extensive reading and research.
Minimum Education and Experience
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college/university.
• Must be fully licensed as a Pre-K Elementary Teacher (00015 or 00014) or eligible for licensure.
• Strong background in Creative Curriculum and/or other early childhood curriculum standards.
This Position Reports Directly to Principal
Classification Exempt
Salary: North Carolina Teacher’s Salary Schedule (www.ncpublicschools.org)
Disclaimer
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to perform this job.
If offered a position, the prospective employee must pass a required health exam, criminal records check, and drug test.
If your position requires you to work with preschool children, you must meet a federally mandated childcare background check and fingerprints that are in addition to and separate from the background check and fingerprints you completed as a new hire for GCS.
