Elementary PE Teacher

Job Title: Physical Education Teacher/Athletic Director

Kings Valley Charter School is a rural, community-based education that emphasizes the involvement of parents and the community. Our goal is to achieve academic excellence for all students through an individualized program.

The ideal candidate will be a motivated and enthusiastic educator with a genuine passion for teaching all learners. The successful candidate will create a student-centered classroom that facilitates physical, cognitive, and social-emotional learning.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates motivation and enthusiasm with a genuine passion for teaching all learners.
• Creates a student-centered classroom.
• Facilitates student's physical, cognitive and social and emotional learning through lessons designed to sequentially develop skills appropriate to their ability and confidence levels.
• Provides engaging, fun, and effective instruction that helps build a health and wellness foundation for students.
• Establishes and enforces rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
• Taught knowledge and skills in physical fitness using the Oregon Core Standards.
• Implements Oregon Core Standards with rigor, purpose, and planning.
• Ensures maximum participation for all students; differentiates learning as needed to ensure all students experience success.
• Analyzes, demonstrates, and explains basic skills, knowledge and strategies of games, rhythms, and fundamentals of body movement.
• Develops engaging and effective lesson plans and supplementary materials.
• Provides ongoing formative feedback to students.
• Ensures appropriate safety instruction and makes safety checks on equipment and field areas to ensure the overall safety of students.
• Evaluates academic and social growth of students and keeps appropriate records to include report cards, attendance records, and other recordkeeping activities.
• Communicates with parents, school counselors, and administrators on student progress.
• Plans and supervises class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers, or other experiential activities, and guides students in learning from those activities.
• Attends professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Sport Coordinator Responsibilities:

• Coordinates and maintains inventory for all sports and supports the needs and implementation of all school athletic events.
• Coordinates the certification of school-level student-athletes.
• Coordinates transportation scheduling for all athletic events and intramural events.
• Monitors attendance and academic progress of all athletes and prepares squad lists to verify student-athlete eligibility.
• Organizes and manages ticket sales, scorekeepers, gym managers, and other personnel needed during sporting events and assures facility preparation for athletic events.
• Monitors, evaluates, and supports school athletic events and compiles a list of all athletic physicals and insurance for student eligibility.
• Ensures safety procedures are followed.
• Assists in the recruiting, hiring, and annual evaluation of all coaches.
• Supervises and monitors students and supports student retention strategies.
• Maintains a current athletic handbook listing detailed policies, procedures, and practices for both students and employees.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in a related field.
• A current Oregon teaching license with applicable endorsement (preferred).
• Experience teaching or coaching.

Additional Information: This position comes with a limited benefits package including medical plan, voluntary insurance options, 403b retirement plan after one year, employee assistance program, generous personal and sick leave, and professional development opportunities.