What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mathematics Teacher position at Lorain County JVS?
Position: High School Teacher
Salary Rate: Per Negotiated Contract Reports to: High School Principal
Employment: Regular/Full-time
FLSA status: Exempt
Retirement: STRS
Description: Teach the appropriate course of study for each subject area including employability skills by using a variety of instructional techniques that meet individual learning styles.
Note: The below lists are not ranked in order of importance
Essential Functions:
- Create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the student
- Ensure safety of students
- Effectively manage the classroom and individual student behavior to maintain a good learning environment
- Judiciously discipline students when necessary
- Prepare clear and timely lesson plans
- Maintain accurate and complete records as required
- Membership and participation in the appropriate Advisory Committee
- Instruct appropriate employability skills
- Provide guidance to students which will promote their welfare and their proper educational development
- Attend teacher/parent conferences
- Maintain appropriate parental contact
- Provide complete lesson plans for a substitute
- Refer students suspected of learning difficulties to the intervention assistance team
- Collaborate with colleagues
- Teach and evaluate the students using sound instructional practices
- Participate in mentoring as an entry year teacher
- Attend meetings and in-services as requested
- Interact in a positive manner with parents, students, and staff
- Teach new concepts and facilitate different activities enabling students to learn in different ways
- Make contacts with the public with tact and diplomacy
- Act as teacher, facilitator and information source in subject area specialty
- Demonstrate knowledge of subject matter and present clear, complete and accurate explanation utilizing a variety of instructional techniques and media suitable to the level learners
- Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, and facilities
- Assist the administration in implementing all procedures and rules governing student life and conduct
- Instruct the assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated
- Practice the ethics of the teaching profession
- Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with parents through effective use of interim reports, report cards and conferences
- Maintain and improve professional competence by attending professional growth, seminars, workshops, etc.
- Refer student attendance, health and psychological/emotional problems to principal and/or
- Maintain respect at all times for confidential information
- Follow scope and sequence of the instructional program as defined in the courses of study which have been approved by the Board of Education
Other Duties and Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships
- Promote good public relations
- Work closely with administrators as part of development teams to discuss and implement new practices such as "team" teaching, semester projects, etc.
- Serve as a role model for students
- Supervise student teachers
- Perform other duties as assigned by the building principal or designee
- Assist in the selection of textbooks, equipment, and other educational materials
- Participate in committees, study teams, and co-curricular activities as agreed upon
- Participate in intervention assistance team meetings
- Maintain and improve professional competence by attending professional seminars, workshops, etc. to keep current of relevant issues
- Counsel, advise, encourage, and motivate students
- Respond to routine questions and requests in a timely, appropriate manner
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Bachelors degree or equivalent from a four-year college or university
- Such alternative to the above qualifications as superintendent and/or board of education may find appropriate
- Prior teaching experience is preferable
- Appropriate State of Ohio certifications/license
- Ability to work effectively with others
- Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively both orally and in writing
- Effective, active listening skills
- Record keeping skills
- Training in varied instructional design
- Organizational and problem solving skills
- Knowledge of academic area and teaching methodology
- Basic knowledge of all other subject matter
- Computer/word processing skills
- Classroom management skills
- Experience working with children
Equipment Operated
- Calculator
- Computer
- Fax Machine
- Subject specific equipment, e.g., burners, lab equipment
- Printer
- TV
- Smart board
- DVD Player
- Copy Machine
- Telephone
- Equipment that is appropriate to the teacher’s assigned area of teaching
Additional Working Conditions
- Occasional interaction with unruly students
- Frequent requirement to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, see, read, speak, reach, stretch with hands and arms, crouch, kneel, climb, and stoop
- Occasionally lift, carry, push, and pull various items up to a maximum of 25 pounds
- Occasional evening work
- Occasional travel, e.g., attending workshop outside of district
- Occasional operation of a vehicle in inclement weather conditions, i.e., being prepared to work on all scheduled school days, except calamity days
- Frequent repetitive hand motion, e.g., computer keyboard, calculator, writing
- Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and tissue
