Kindergarten Teacher

Job Title:                     Kindergarten                            

Purpose:                      Provide guidance and consistent support of both individual and group needs to develop responsibility, self-control and responsibility; instructs young children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for success in primary school.

Responsible to:           Building Principal          

Supervises:                  Classified personnel as assigned by the administration

Qualifications:             

1.         Kansas State Teaching Certificate/Licenses in assigned area (s) of instruction.

2.         Highly qualified as defined in the No Child Left Behind Legislation.

3.         Ability to convey information to students in a variety of methods to induce learning.

4.         Ability to use technology as an instructional tool.

5.         Ability to use appropriate classroom management skills that insure a positive learning

             environment.

6.         Keep active in understanding the current trends in the discipline.

Essential Functions:

1.         Ability to communicate effectively with students, parents, colleagues, and the community.

2.         Ability to effectively manage the classroom.

3.         Ability to perform assigned tasks.

4.         Ability to establish goals and objectives.

5.         Ability to design effective strategies to achieve goals.

6.         Ability to make the subject matter relevant to the students.

7.         Ability to supervise students in non-classroom settings.

8.         Ability to promote education throughout the community.

9.         Ability to insure classroom activities conform to District policies, rules, and regulations.

Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions:

1.         Must occasionally work in noisy and crowded environments with numerous interruptions.

2.         Requires stooping, kneeling, bending, turning, and reaching.

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3.         Ability to move equipment within the building as required.

4.         Requires prolonged sitting and standing; and use of equipment causing eye fatigue.

General responsibilities:

1.         Plans individual and group curriculum/instruction and activities to stimulate growth in learning: language, reading readiness, language, writing, music, art, math, physical

            education, science, and social studies. 

 2.         Encourages children to listen to instruction; provides social and motor skills development

            activities and instructs children in practices of personal cleanliness and self care.

 3.         Provides the opportunity for physical, intellectual, social, and emotional growth so that students will feel a sense of success at their own rate of development.

 4.         Alternates periods of strenuous activity with periods of rest or light activity and nourishment to avoid over stimulation and fatigue.

5.         Stays alert to emergency situations and takes necessary precautions concerning young children and meets district requirements for safety; makes immediate reports.

6.         Helps children develop habits of caring for own clothing and picking up and putting away toys and books.

7.         Encourages and promotes communication and interaction with parents through conferences, record keeping, lesson plans, and multiple pupil performance outcomes/assessments.  

8.         Appropriately reports recognition of possible exceptionalities for early referrals of students.

9.         Networks with sending and receiving teachers to facilitate a positive transition to the next grade level.

10.        Interacts with faculty, principal, and community groups for planning curriculum and activities.

11.        Supervises personnel assigned.

12.        Participates in personal professional growth activities and district inservice programs.

13.        Uses equipment: VCR/TV, overhead projector, reading machine, tape recorders, copy machine, tape recorders, copy machine, computers, and playground

            equipment.

14.        Manages all teaching requirements with mobility to move from place to place with young children to demonstrate and teach activities within the building and on the playground; ability to conduct classroom demonstrations to teach drawing, writing, sorting, feeling, opening, stapling, threading and turning pages to young children; and, focused observation to observe performance and behavior of all students assigned.

15         Maintains a classroom which is conducive to learning.

16.        Prepares activities including the public to present academic, music and/or art displays/programs.

17.        Procures and distributes materials.

18.        Assists with supervising bus loading, street crossing, and playground/recess duty. 

19.        Assists with planning for curriculum and other committees.

20.        Reports personnel assessment of paraprofessionals as required.

21.        Must support district mission, goals and objectives.

22.        Must demonstrate knowledge of the young elementary child, child development and exceptional children, basic math, reading, science, social studies and language.

23.        Must demonstrate ability to lead, plan, coordinate, organize a classroom, make decisions, supervise and handle emergencies.

24.        Must demonstrate patience, imagination and communication ability.

25.        Must achieve students' projected curriculum and performance outcomes. 

26.        Must meet all district safety requirements. 

27.        Must have a plan for personal professional growth activities including but not limited to those supplied by the district; professional growth activities will be evidenced by

            recorded and concerted efforts to improve classroom management and

            student achievement.

28.        Performance will be assessed by the building principal in accordance with school policy and approved procedures.

29.        Willingness and flexibility to adopt new teaching strategies into their classroom.

30.        Prepare students for local, state, and national summative assessments.

Term of Employment:              As per negotiated teacher agreement

Payment Rate:                          According to Certified Salary Schedule

Evaluation:                               Performance effectiveness will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board of Education Policy of Certified Personnel.