Lower Elementary Teacher (25-26)

Job Description

Responsibilities and Duties: 

• Demonstrate love for God:
  • Express specific knowledge of the Bible and its application to subject area(s).
  • Practice daily devotions of prayer, reading of God’s Word, and meditation in the classroom.
  • Give Christian service to others both within and outside the school.
  • Model an exemplary Christian walk in speech and acts.
  • Submit to authority out of obedience to Christ.
• Demonstrate love for students:
  • Treat each child as uniquely gifted by God for the purpose of serving others (1 Peter 4:10).
  • Show through actions that each child is made to reflect God himself.
  • Discipline students fairly and firmly out of love for them.
  • Encourage students persistently (catch them “doing good”).
  • Guide students in helping other students learn.
  • Evaluate student’s progress in learning with announced criteria fairly applied.
• Demonstrate Christian professional competence and vision:
  • Show strong knowledge of learning theory, curriculum design, and subject area(s).
  • Construct and/or use courses, units, and lessons that integrate knowledge.
  • Select materials and lesson designs that specifically carry out the goals derived from the school’s mission statement.
  • Use evaluation instruments that match the school’s goals and specific objectives that allow each child to show what he/she has learned, and that help students meet high expectations for learning.
  • Fit students with the “glasses of Scripture” for viewing all of life rightly.
  • Assist students to understand and live in the knowledge that God is sovereign over every aspect of life.
  • Pursue further learning of subject area(s) while seeking the best pedagogy for the school’s goals.
• Communicate effectively according to Biblical standards:
  • Speak clearly, honestly, and with concern for the audience.
  • Use fresh analogies to connect new concepts to students’ experience.
  • Relate stories of God’s faithfulness, personal and communal, with clarity and enthusiasm.
  • Vary the means (visual, audible, tactile) and language (abstract, concrete, metaphorical, etc.) depending on the subject and the needs of all children.
  • Encourage each child’s expression and help students to adopt Biblical principles for making choices.
  • Model awe for the destructive power of sin and God’s restoration of creation and human beings.