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Job Description
Primary Duties:
- Create lesson plans that are academically and developmentally appropriate for students.
- Instruct, model, and actively engage students in lessons.
- Recognize and celebrate the uniqueness of each student and the various learning styles represented in the classroom.
- Provide a structured learning environment.
- Walk around the classroom, teaching and monitoring student activities and work.
- Use rubrics and benchmarks to assess and report student progress.
- Attend meetings, in-service, training, etc. as required.
- Provide input and guidance on curriculum decisions related to the subject/content area.
- Collaborate with colleagues and team members to support student learning.
- Assist students in growing their faith and learning how to live their faith beyond the walls of the school.
Job Requirements
In instructional planning:
- Hold the school’s mission before you as the “big picture” of what you are attempting to accomplish.
- Translate the school’s student outcomes into specific objectives or essential questions for lessons suitable to the age level and development needs of your students.
- Select and use curricular materials that will help students achieve these outcomes.
- Plan teaching-learning experiences that help each student achieve the stated objectives.
- Plan units that help students see wholeness and relevance in learning.
- Plan lessons that connect biblical principles to concepts about God’s world.
- Plan a variety of teaching strategies to match the learning styles of the students.
- Choose content that helps students see the variety and the integrity of God’s creation.
- Select in advance the means of assessment to measure students’ learning for a lesson or unit.
In teaching a class:
- Use class time well with activities that engage student’s attention and have a clear purpose.
- Give clear directions and well-organized examples and explanations.
- Articulate a biblical worldview that is woven into instruction.
- Listen carefully to students’ ideas and apply them to the lesson.
- Use questions and explanations that promote clear thinking and awe in students.
- Show interest and wonder in all learning through gestures, body movement, and voice inflection.
- Compose useful analogies to connect what students are learning to what they have already learned.
In relating with students:
- Establish a climate of love and care.
- Serve as a positive role model for students in the classroom and in the broader community.
- Define responsible Christian behavior for students, including guidelines and consequences for good and bad behavior in the classroom.
- Help students learn self-discipline through appropriate guiding and correcting.
- Provide organized learning that helps students support and learn from each other.
In professional growth:
- Have a growth mindset and be a lifelong learner. Take responsibility for your own professional growth. by remaining current in scholarship on teaching, the purposes of Christian education, and your subject area.
- Demonstrate an ability and desire to collaborate with colleagues and administration by contributing ideas and listening to the ideas of others.
- Accept your share of responsibilities for the Christian education of the students and the operation of the school.
Education Requirements
- A BA degree from an accredited college or university.
- Candidates with early childhood education training, certification, or experience are preferred.
- A valid teaching certificate is preferred but not required. If not in possession of a current teaching certificate, the teacher must be willing to work toward obtaining a valid teaching license.
Related Benefits
Part Time benefits available