What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kindergarten Teacher position at School Administrative Unit 74?
Barrington School District's Early Childhood Learning Center (ECLC) is seeking a dynamic, compassionate, and enthusiastic Kindergarten Teacher to join our community. The ECLC provides a welcoming, healthy, safe, confidence-inspiring environment where individuality is nurtured and independence is fostered. Our kindergarten teachers provide Barrington students with a strong academic, social emotional, and developmental foundation for future learning.
POSITION TITLE: Kindergarten Teacher
Minimum Qualifications:
New Hampshire Certification
2-5 Years of Experience
REPORTS TO: Building Principal
COMPETENCIES:
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies.
- Knowledge of current, research-based teaching techniques and methodology.
- Knowledge of subject content
- Ability to work independently or with a team.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to organize and prioritize tasks, projects, and assignments
- Work effectively with students, staff and parents
- Establish appropriate instructional goals and objectives for the class taught that are consistent for the state standards and the district curriculum.
- Correlate appropriate learning activities with the instructional objectives.
- Effectively integrate technology.
- Prepare and maintain written plans and modify them as necessary.
- Implement classroom management, in line with the school wide program.
- Develop and maintain a classroom environment conducive to learning.
- Respects confidentiality.
- Submit progress reports on each student with recommendations for further development.
- Review and request the purchase of appropriate instructional materials to meet the needs of the students/ curriculum; provide budget needs to the building principal.
- Work with colleagues to assess students, analyze data and determine ways the enhance student achievement.
- Supervise students throughout the school, on field trips and other recreational and other extra-curricular activities as assigned.
- Uphold and enforce school rules, administrative regulations and school board policies.
- Strive to achieve district and school goals.
- Attend and participate in faculty/ staff meetings and contribute to school/ district committees and work groups.
- Foster a positive, respectful, and supportive classroom environment that promotes student independence, self-advocacy, and growth.
- Communicates with parents through conferences and other means to discuss pupil’s progress and interpret the school program
- Uses informal and formal assessment procedures, such as, but not limited to, diagnostic achievement tests or classroom observations, to assist with the provision of appropriate services
