Secondary Science Teacher

JOB DESCRIPTION POSITION TITLE: Secondary Science Teacher

REPORTS TO: Building Principal

WORK DAYS: 181

DESCRIPTION: Secondary Science Teacher helps students to learn subject matter and skills which will lead toward the fulfillment of their potential for intellectual, emotional, and psychological growth.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Maintain records as required district policy; maintains professional ethics.
• Establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships.
• Provide evidence of professional growth.
• Model appropriate dress.
• Provides guidance and counsel to the students which will promote their welfare and their proper educational development. Periodically assess student progress.
• Administers the classroom and its program of organization and management. Discipline and control should be maintained at all times with those whom the teacher is charged with supervising. Cooperate with extended exceptional programs, small group instructions and so forth; endeavor to make provisions for individual differences in students.
• Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with parents through effective use of interim reports, report cards and conferences.
• Write clear and usable plans. 
• Lesson plans indicate direction for instruction. Lesson plans indicate implementation of courses of study. Submit lesson plans on time when requested.
• Demonstrate knowledge of subject matter and to be familiar with all District Policies, Administration Guidelines, Staff Manuals and Student Handbooks.
• Be prompt in arriving in and dismissing a class in conformity with school schedules, as well as reporting promptly to school and to any meetings called. The teacher is not to leave school before the regular scheduled time unless permission is secured from the principal. The teacher must be on time to class and never leave students unattended in class.
• Present clear, complete and accurate explanations suitable to level of learners.
• Approach subject matter in a positive and enthusiastic manner; present subject matter in a calm, self-confident, and poised manner.
• Receive learners’ questions comfortably and answers them clearly and completely.
• Give positive reinforcement to acceptable academic and social behavior.
• Consistently confront undesirable behavior with firmness and fairness. Monitor student behavior and activities.
• Show respect and consideration for students, staff, parents and so forth.
• Present objectives clearly. Present material relevant to the objective clearly and accurately. Provide activities that will help learners meet the objectives.
• Ask relevant questions throughout the lesson to check for understanding. Ask questions of varying difficulty. Encourage active student participation.
• Provide homework that is relevant to learning objective.
• Maintain accurate pupil accounting records and becomes familiar with the cumulative records of all students in classes.
• Provides for the care and protection of district property.
• Keeps an active record of texts, supplies, and equipment used in the classroom.
• Fosters desirable school-community relationships.
• Refers attendance, health, and psychological/emotional problems to principal and/or guidance counselor.
• Assists in the selection of textbooks, equipment and other instructional materials.
• Attends county, district and faculty meetings (seminars, conferences, workshops, and so forth) as adopted in the district’s calendar unless excused by the principal.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT/CONDITIONS:

• This position works in a variety of settings including classrooms and outdoors and may experience heat or cold extremes as well as fumes, odors, dust; noise level moderate to loud.

RIGHT TO REVISE:

• This Job Description is not meant to be all-inclusive and the School reserves the right to revise this job description as necessary without advance notice. The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer without notice.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: BA/BS degree or graduate degree

Required Testing: None Specified

Continuing Educational Training: State of Michigan Continuing Education Clock Hour Requirements

Certificate & Licenses:

• Certification as required by the Michigan Department of Education. Any and all endorsements will be considered for this position.

Clearances:

• Fingerprint clearance
• Criminal Background check clearance

CBA Status: UPEA-MEA

SALARY: per CBA