QUALIFICATIONS:
Illinois State License in applicable teaching field
Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education endorsements
Bachelor’s Degree
Ability to function effectively as a member of the school staff.
Preferred Skills and Knowledge:
Experience with ECERs (Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale)
Experience with Preschool Curriculum
Experience with Teaching Strategies Gold Assessment
CPI (Crisis Prevention Initiative)
REPORTS TO:
Building Principal, and/or Designee
FUNDED BY GRANT:
This position is funded through the ISBE Preschool For All grant.
In the
event that the grant is no longer available, this position will be eliminated.
SUPERVISES:
(Instructs, and Evaluates the work of):
Students
Student Teachers
Interns
Volunteers
Assists the Principal with the evaluation of Teaching Assistants.
MAINTAINS LIASONS WITH:
Parents.
Communicates with parents as the teacher deems necessary, or when requested by parents or administrators.
JOB GOAL: To help students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their development as mature, able, and responsible men and women.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
(The following are the essential fundamentals included, but not limited to follow job duties.
)
Maintains an instructional atmosphere that is conducive to high quality educational program.
Utilizes a variety of instructional strategies to accommodate individual differences.
Provides feedback which includes constructive criticism that motivates students.
Has high expectations for daily and long-term student achievement.
Organizes and arranges classroom so as to facilitate learning and minimize student disruption; in accordance to preschool licensing standards.
Sets limits of student behavior which are defined, communicated, and monitored.
Keeps up with current developments, research, and literature in his/her teaching field and the field of education.
Keeps parents and students informed of each student’s academic progress.
Teaches in full compliance with the curricular requirements of the State and the Board; including requirements for the grant established in the Preschool for All Implementation Manual.
Communicate regularly with parents by means of parent meetings, newsletters, home visits, and individual parent conferences.
Complies with Board Policies, Administrative Regulations, and Board-Employee Agreements at the school level.
Participates on an appointive, elective, or volunteer basis in the Curriculum development process at the building and district levels, as is required to periodically review all curricular areas to keep them up to-date.
Plans for health, safety, and physical well-being of students during instruction.
Supervises, classifies, evaluates and guides students.
Utilizes community resources for the enrichment of the educational program.
Assists in maintaining good school-community relations.
Participates, on as needed basis, in the development of District Policies and Administrative Regulations, on an appointive, elective, or volunteer basis.
Responsible for student safety education and accident prevention.
Reports all unsafe conditions to the school principal promptly.
Reports all accidents or injuries to the principal as soon as possible.
Supervises and intervenes to regulate student behavior in order to alleviate the risk that inappropriate behaviors will place students or staff at risk of harm.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Salary is based on Schedules A and B of the collective negotiated Agreement.
EVALUATION:
Each employee in contractual continuing service shall be evaluated at least once every two (2) years.
Each employee not in continuing contractual service shall be evaluated every year.
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