Long Term Guest Teacher, 5th and 6th Grade Art

JOB TITLE: Long-term Sub Teacher

FLSA CLASSIFICATION: Non-exempt, full daily rate for certified candidate beginning day 1; $150 per day for non-licensed candidate.

WORK DAYS: Days determined by length of leave.

STANDARD HOURS PER DAY: 7 hours per day (not including a 30-minute unpaid duty-free meal break)

WORK YEAR: The Long-term Sub Teacher is scheduled to work all days when students are scheduled to attend school, depending on which calendar the school follows.

SALARY SCHEDULE & BENEFITS: The Long-term Sub Teacher is paid full daily rate for certified candidates beginning day 1; $150 per day for non-licensed candidates. Certified long-term substitute: Teacher daily rate commensurate with degree and years of experience. Not eligible for benefits.

REPORTS TO: The Long-term Sub Teacher is supervised by the building Principal/Asst. Principal. They report to the building Principal or designee.

SUPERVISES: The Long-term Sub Teacher does not directly supervise any other employee(s).

General Summary Of Duties

Under direct supervision, the Long-term Sub Teacher provides support in an educational environment, working with students by following the teacher’s lesson plans. The Long-term Sub Teacher is responsible for leading and supervising a variety of developmentally-appropriate activities, as directed by the assigned teacher(s). Performs related work as directed.

Essential Functions

• Reports directly to the school principal or principal’s designee upon arriving at school.
• Works with administrators, other Teachers, and/or instructional teams to plan and implement instruction according to the District approved and adopted curriculum;
• Develops daily lesson plans and presents lessons, using a variety of instructional methods and techniques, to ensure that the Teacher effectively covers the curriculum in a timely manner throughout the semester or school year;
• Teaches lessons, provides feedback to students and parents.
• Consults as appropriate, with the building principal, team leader, department chair, or designee on any directions left by the absent teacher or other procedures not specified in the Sub Teacher guide/folder.
• Assumes responsibility for overseeing student behavior in class and during lunch and recess period.
• Follows all policies, rules, and procedures to which regular teachers are subject and which good teaching practice dictates.
  
  

Non-essential Functions

• Performs related duties as directed.
  
  

Entry-level Requirements

• EDUCATION/TRAINING: An Associate’s degree or higher, or at least sixty (60) semester hours from an accredited institution of higher education (official transcripts are required to validate education), or preferred.
• EXPERIENCE: Previous work experience with school-age children is preferred.
• CERTIFICATIONS &/OR LICENSES: Substitute Teacher’s Licensure.
  
  

Performance Aptitudes

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to arrange, compare, count, differentiate, measure and/or sort data and/or information. Includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others on how to apply procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of standard office equipment.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference data and information.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Depending on the grade level of the classroom assignment, may require the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may require the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may require the ability to utilize principles of fractions and/or to interpret graphs;
• Functional Reasoning: Requires ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Involves routine work according to clearly prescribed standard practices, with some latitude for independent judgment.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties which are often characterized by frequent change.
  
  

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Tasks involve the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of standing, walking, climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (10-20 pounds).

SENSORY REQUIREMENTS: Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination. Some tasks require oral communications ability. Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds.

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: Tasks are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.