What are the responsibilities and job description for the CERTIFIED_High School GERMAN Teacher 2025/26 position at Gretna Public Schools?
Department: Instruction
Education Level and Certification: Bachelor’s degree required. Must at all times during employment possess a Nebraska Teaching Certificate with such endorsements as required by NDE Rule 10 and all other certification and training as required or assigned.
Reports To: Principal or Principal’s Designee
Required Job Tasks
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible.
- Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ varying needs and interests.
- Instruct through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations in one or more subjects, such as English, mathematics, or social studies.
- Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments in order to evaluate students' progress.
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Assign lessons and correct homework.
- Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
- Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, counselors, and administrators in order to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
- Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of the State and the school district.
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
- Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems, or special academic interests.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
- Prepare for assigned classes and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.
- Perform administrative duties such as assisting in school libraries, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
- Administer standardized ability and achievement tests and interpret results to determine student strengths and areas of need.
- Organize and supervise games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, and social development.
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
- Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Serve as a role model to all students.
- Serve as a positive member of the community in a way that does not negatively affect the District’s reputation or image in the community.
- Refrain from engaging in conduct that interferes with the operations of the District, including the education of students.
- Develop and maintain a positive and professional working relationship with other staff and administration.
- Adhere to all District policies, rules, regulations, and supervisory directives.
- Maintain confidentiality of information concerning staff, students, and parents in accordance with law and District rules.
- Adhere to the code of ethics of the District and the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE Rule 27).
FLSA Status: Exempt.
Professional exemption: The employee has a primary duty of performing work requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study or has a primary duty of teaching, tutoring, instructing, or lecturing in the activity of imparting knowledge and is employed and engaged in this activity as a teacher.
Essential Functions:
The essential functions of the Teacher position include: (1) regular, dependable in-person attendance on the job; (2) the ability to perform the identified tasks and to possess and utilize the identified knowledge, skills, and abilities and to perform the identified work activities; and (3) the ability to perform the following identified physical requirements:
Physical Requirements
Teacher
E = Essential
NE = Non-Essential
NE
NE
E
E
E
Stamina
1. Sitting
X
2. Walking
X
3. Standing
X
4. Sprinting/Running
X
Flexibility
5. Bending or twisting at the neck more than the average person
X
6. Bending or twisting at the trunk more than the average person
X
7. Squatting/Stooping/Kneeling
X
8. Reaching above the head
X
9. Reaching forward
X
10. Repeating the same hand, arm or finger motion many times (For example: typing, data entry, etc.)
X
Activities
11. Climbing (on ladders, into large trucks/vehicles, etc.)
X
12. Hand/grip strength
X
13. Driving on the job
X
14. Typing non-stop
X
Use of Arms and Hands
15. Manual dexterity (screwing a lid on a jar)
X
16. Finger dexterity (typing)
X
Lifting Requirements
17. Lifting up to 10 pounds (Mark all that apply)
Floor to waist
X
Waist to shoulder
X
Shoulder to overhead
X
18. Lifting 11 to 25 pounds (Mark all that apply)
Floor to waist
X
Waist to shoulder
X
Shoulder to overhead
X
19. Lifting 26 to 50 pounds (Mark all that apply)
Floor to waist
X
Waist to shoulder
X
Shoulder to overhead
X
20. Lifting 51 to 75 pounds (Mark all that apply)
Floor to waist
X
Waist to shoulder
X
Shoulder to overhead
X
21. Lifting 76 plus pounds (Mark all that apply)
Floor to waist
X
Waist to shoulder
X
Shoulder to overhead
X
22. Can load/items weighing over 50 pounds that are lifted or carried be shared, or reduced into smaller loads?
X
Pushing/Pulling
23. 25 to 50 pounds
X
24. 51 to 75 pounds
X
25. 76 to 90 pounds
X
26. Over 90 pounds
X
Carrying
27. 10 to 25 pounds
X
28. 26 to 50 pounds
X
29. 51 to 75 pounds
X
30. 76 to 90 pounds
X
31. Over 90 pounds
X
