Elementary TEAMS Teacher - 2025/26 School Year

Purpose: The Elementary TEAMS (Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, and Science) Teacher is responsible for designing and delivering engaging, hands-on, interdisciplinary lessons that inspire curiosity and creativity in young learners. This role involves integrating technology and collaborative problem-solving into the curriculum while fostering a growth mindset and a love of learning in students.

Reports To: Building Principal

FLSA Status: Exempt, salaried

Salary: Negotiated Agreement Salary Schedule, 187-day contract

Required Qualifications:

• Valid Kansas Teaching License with K-6 Elementary Endorsement
• The desire to continue career improvement by enhancing skills and job performance
• Health and Inoculation Certificate on file in the District Office (after an employment offer is made)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three-plus years of teaching experience
• Master’s degree in the field of education

Essential Functions: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily:

• Plan and execute project-based, interdisciplinary lessons incorporating science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics
• Utilize diverse instructional strategies, including hands-on experiments, group work, and digital tools, to meet the needs of all learners
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive classroom environment that encourages inquiry, creativity, and innovation
• Promote critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork among students
• Incorporate instructional technology in a meaningful way into lessons regularly to increase student engagement and growth
• Take all suitable and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities
• Keep attendance records
• Maintain a positive learning environment for all students and positively manage student discipline
• Establish and maintain classroom norms, routines, and expectations that support active engagement and respectful interactions
• Meet with parents/guardians to discuss student progress and problems
• Prepare, attend, and participate in faculty meetings, professional developments, parent-teacher conferences, and other professional meetings
• Develop and maintain effective and appropriate interpersonal relationships with students, parents, and staff
• Supervise students in and around the school building, including before and after school, as assigned by the building principal
• React positively to change and frequent interruptions in an educational environment
• Undertake efforts that promote professional growth in alignment with the District’s vision, mission, and goals
• Maintain regular and consistent attendance
• Perform other duties as assigned by the administration

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time
• Ability to enter data into a computer, see and read a computer screen, and printed material with or without vision aids
• Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in typical classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Physical ability to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
• Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead
• Must be able to work in extreme temperatures.
• Ability to work in both indoor and outdoor environments.

Terms of Employment: At-will employment. A 187-day contract under the Negotiated Agreement.

Evaluation: Performance evaluations under the Board’s policy and the Negotiated Agreement.