Requirement:  Kentucky Teacher Certification- English (grades 5-8)

Responsibilities:

The teacher shall be an ambassador for Spencer County Schools.

The teacher shall provide excellent customer service to our students, parents, and community.

List of Duties:

The teacher demonstrates applied content knowledge. 

• Communicates concepts, processes, and knowledge.
• Connects content to life experiences of student.
• Demonstrates instructional strategies that are appropriate for content and contribute to student learning.
• Guides students to understand content from various perspectives.
• Identifies and addresses students’ misconceptions of content.

The teacher designs and plans instruction.

• Plans and implements an education program that is consistent with the SBDM Council’s adopted curriculum.
• Develops significant objectives aligned with standards.
• Uses contextual data to design instruction relevant to students.
• Plans assessments to guide instruction and measure learning objectives.
• Implements flashbacks at the beginning of class to review the previously taught content.
• Plans instructional strategies and activities that address learning objectives for all students.
• Writes lesson plans utilizing the adopted format.
• Plans instructional strategies that facilitate multiple levels of learning.

The teacher creates and maintains learning climate. 

• Communicates high expectations.
• Establishes a positive learning environment.
• Values and supports student diversity and addresses individual needs.
• Fosters mutual respect between teacher and students.
• Provides a safe environment for learning.

The teacher implements and manages instruction.

• Uses a variety of instructional strategies that align with learning objectives and actively engage students.
• Implements instruction based on diverse student needs and assessment data.
• Uses time effectively.
• Uses space and materials effectively.
• Implements and manages instruction in ways that facilitate higher order thinking.

The teacher assesses and communicates learning results.

• Uses pre-assessments.
• Uses formative assessments.
• Uses summative assessments
• Describes, analyzes and evaluates student performance data.
• Communicates learning results to students and parents.
• Allows opportunity for student self-assessment.

The teacher demonstrates the implementation of technology.

• Uses available technology to design and plan instruction.
• Uses available technology to implement instruction that facilitates student learning.
• Integrates student use of available technology into instruction.
• Uses available technology to assess and communicate student learning.
• Demonstrates ethical and legal use of technology.

The teacher reflects on and evaluates teaching and learning.

• Uses data to reflect on and evaluate student learning.
• Uses data to reflect on and evaluate instructional practices.
• Uses data to reflect on and identify areas for professional growth.

The teacher collaborates with colleagues/parents/others. 

• Identifies students whose learning could be enhanced by collaboration.
• Designs a plan to enhance student learning that includes all parties in the collaborative effort.
• Implements planned activities that enhance student learning and engage all parties.
• Analyzes data to evaluate the outcomes of collaborative efforts.

The teacher evaluates teaching and implements professional development.

• Self assesses performance relative to Kentucky’s Teacher Standards.
• Identifies priorities for professional development based on data from self-assessment, student performance, and feedback from colleagues.
• Designs a professional growth plan that addresses identified priorities.
• Shows evidence of professional growth and reflection on the identified priority areas and impact on instructional effectiveness and student learning.

The teacher provides leadership within school/community/profession. 

• Identifies leadership opportunities that enhance student learning and/or professional environment of the school.
• Develops a plan for engaging in leadership activities.
• Implements a plan for engaging in leadership activities.
• Analyzes data to evaluate the results of planned and executed leadership efforts.

The teacher demonstrates professional ethics.

• Attends and participates in faculty meetings.
• Attends and participates in Data/Professional Development Days.
• Maintains good attendance and punctuality.
• Posts attendance according to the school’s guidelines.
• Enters grades in Infinite Campus on a weekly basis.
• Dresses in a professional manner. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Work is performed while standing, sitting and/or walking
• Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing
• Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations
• Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching
• Requires the ability to lift, carry, push or pull weights, up to 30 pounds

Perform other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor or building principal.

FOR THIS TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT, STATE LAW REQUIRES A NATIONAL  AND STATE CRIMINAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECK AND A LETTER, PROVIDED BY THE INDIVIDUAL, FROM THE CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES STATING THE APPLICANT HAS NO ADMINISTRATIVE FINDINGS OF CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT FOUND THROUGH A BACKGROUND

 CHECK OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT RECORDS MAINTAINED BY THE CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES