Elementary Teacher

Aldan Elementary School; Aldan (Delaware County); On-site; USD 55,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

William Penn School District Aldan Elementary School in Aldan, PA seeks a Grade Teacher to design and deliver engaging lessons, differentiate instruction, and monitor student progress. The role requires meaningful collaboration with colleagues and adherence to state standards, with compensation based on the negotiated contract.

The successful candidate holds Pennsylvania Elementary Certification (K-6 or PK-4 or 4-6) or a clear pathway to certification, plus a Bachelor’s degree.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university.
• Pennsylvania Certification or a confirmed pathway to certification.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute developmentally appropriate lessons in the assigned content area; differentiate instruction and implement IEP accommodations/modifications.
• Monitor and analyze assessment data to support informed instructional decisions (PVAAS, Keystone, PSSA).
• Maintain attendance expectations and ensure accurate records in student information systems.
• Provide timely feedback to students to support mastery of content.
• Collaborate with peers to ensure instructional effectiveness and alignment with standards.

Skills

Differentiated instruction

IEP accommodations

Data-driven instruction

Classroom management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Pennsylvania Certification

Job description

Starting Date: Immediately

Job Description

POSITION:

Grade Teacher

LOCATION:

QUALIFICATIONS:

Pennsylvania Instructional Certification: Elementary K-6 or Elementary PK-4 or Elementary 4-6

SALARY:

According to the Negotiated Contract

EFFECTIVE:

Immediately

Updated 7/15/26

District Summary

The William Penn School District is located in southeastern Delaware County and serves approximately 5,000 students who reside in the boroughs of Aldan, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Lansdowne, and Yeadon. We share a collective vision to educate, nurture, and empower all students to become career- and/or college-ready.

District Summary

The William Penn School District is located in southeastern Delaware County and serves approximately 5,000 students who reside in the boroughs of Aldan, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Lansdowne, and Yeadon. We share a collective vision to educate, nurture, and empower all students to become career and/or college-ready.

• Plan and execute developmentally appropriate lessons in the assigned content area(s); differentiate instruction for all students; implement IEP accommodations and modifications.
• Maintain all assigned courses to high standards, adjust lessons and assessments as necessary.
• Gather resources that assist in addressing/incorporating state standards into lessons, instructional materials, and assessments.
• Regularly monitor and maintain student attendance expectations.
• Monitor and analyze assessment data to support informed instructional decision-making (including, but not limited to, PVAAS, Keystone, and PSSA).
• Provide timely feedback to students in order to support them in reaching content mastery goals/targets.
• Participate in proctoring state-mandated testing, school field trips, community outreach, and marketing events.
• Collaborate effectively with departmental and cohort peers to ensure that academic goals are appropriate and that instructional strategies are effective in reaching identified student outcomes.
• Maintain accurate records and information in student information systems in accordance with established procedures.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge/awareness of one's own cultural identity and how this influences behavior, and a desire to learn about the cultural identity of others.
• Ability to establish and nurture an environment that promotes cultural competence and equitable treatment of staff, students, and patrons of the District.
• Ability to understand and hold oneself and others accountable for promoting and achieving the goals outlined in Focus Forward 2025 .
• Ability to recognize that each person is a unique individual, even as we celebrate their group cultural heritage.
• Knowledge of PA Core Standards and Eligible Content
• Knowledge of Instructional Planning Guides as they relate to the instructional block
• Knowledge of Digital Curriculum components
• Ability to courageously lead conversations focused on equity, closing opportunity gaps, and equal access to technology-infused lessons of rigor.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with District staff and administrators, students, parents or guardians, outside agencies, and the public, in a multi-ethnic, multicultural, multilingual environment.
• Ability to receive and implement feedback to improve practice and systems.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university
• Valid Pennsylvania Certification or a confirmed pathway to certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Education or a related field of study
• 2+ years of experience teaching in education environments
• Pennsylvania Criminal Background Check, FBI Fingerprinting Background Check, Pennsylvania Child Abuse Clearance
• Sexual Misconduct/Abuse Disclosure Release (Act 168) forms
• School Personnel Health Record and TB test

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements:

• Work scheduled hours on a consistent basis
• An indoor office environment is subject to frequent interruptions
• Pushing, moving, and lifting objects with a strength factor of light work
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a variety of standard office equipment
• Clarity of vision at varying distances
• Verbal, auditory, and written capabilities to effectively communicate in an articulate manner
• Sitting and standing for extended periods of time
• Frequent sitting, standing, and walking
• Reaching overhead, above the shoulders, and horizontally to retrieve and store files and supplies
• Lifting objects with a strength factor of light work
• Occasional bending, reaching, and stretching
• Occasional kneeling, crouching, and squatting
• Occasional pulling, pushing

Level of Compensation: $55,021.00-$106,222.00 (dependent on Step and Track placement as determined based on collective bargaining agreements)

Disclaimer:

The preceding list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary. The statements contained herein reflect general details necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the scope of responsibility, and the level of knowledge and skills typically required, but should not be considered an exhaustive list of work requirements, skills, or duties so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities from time to time.

All employment open positions are made available on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender, age, disability, or veteran status.

Job descriptions are written as a representative list of the ADA essential duties performed by the entire classification. They cannot include, and are not intended to include, every possible activity or task performed by every specific employee.

Elementary Teacher

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Job Details

Job ID: 5989498
Application Deadline: Posted until filled
Posted: Nov 11, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Job Description

POSITION:

Grade Teacher

LOCATION:

QUALIFICATIONS:

Pennsylvania Instructional Certification: Elementary K-6 or Elementary PK-4 or Elementary 4-6

SALARY:

According to the Negotiated Contract

EFFECTIVE:

Immediately

Updated 7/15/26

District Summary

The William Penn School District is located in southeastern Delaware County and serves approximately 5,000 students who reside in the boroughs of Aldan, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Lansdowne, and Yeadon. We share a collective vision to educate, nurture, and empower all students to become career- and/or college-ready.

District Summary

The William Penn School District is located in southeastern Delaware County and serves approximately 5,000 students who reside in the boroughs of Aldan, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Lansdowne, and Yeadon. We share a collective vision to educate, nurture, and empower all students to become career and/or college-ready.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Duties:

• Plan and execute developmentally appropriate lessons in the assigned content area(s); differentiate instruction for all students; implement IEP accommodations and modifications.
• Maintain all assigned courses to high standards, adjust lessons and assessments as necessary.
• Gather resources that assist in addressing/incorporating state standards into lessons, instructional materials, and assessments.
• Regularly monitor and maintain student attendance expectations.
• Monitor and analyze assessment data to support informed instructional decision-making (including, but not limited to, PVAAS, Keystone, and PSSA).
• Provide timely feedback to students in order to support them in reaching content mastery goals/targets.
• Participate in proctoring state-mandated testing, school field trips, community outreach, and marketing events.
• Collaborate effectively with departmental and cohort peers to ensure that academic goals are appropriate and that instructional strategies are effective in reaching identified student outcomes.
• Maintain accurate records and information in student information systems in accordance with established procedures.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge/awareness of one's own cultural identity and how this influences behavior, and a desire to learn about the cultural identity of others.
• Ability to establish and nurture an environment that promotes cultural competence and equitable treatment of staff, students, and patrons of the District.
• Ability to understand and hold oneself and others accountable for promoting and achieving the goals outlined in Focus Forward 2025 .
• Ability to recognize that each person is a unique individual, even as we celebrate their group cultural heritage.
• Knowledge of PA Core Standards and Eligible Content
• Knowledge of Instructional Planning Guides as they relate to the instructional block
• Knowledge of Digital Curriculum components
• Ability to courageously lead conversations focused on equity, closing opportunity gaps, and equal access to technology-infused lessons of rigor.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with District staff and administrators, students, parents or guardians, outside agencies, and the public, in a multi-ethnic, multicultural, multilingual environment.
• Ability to receive and implement feedback to improve practice and systems.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university
• Valid Pennsylvania Certification or a confirmed pathway to certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Education or a related field of study
• 2+ years of experience teaching in education environments

Pre-employment Paperwork Requirements:

• Pennsylvania Criminal Background Check, FBI Fingerprinting Background Check, Pennsylvania Child Abuse Clearance
• Sexual Misconduct/Abuse Disclosure Release (Act 168) forms
• School Personnel Health Record and TB test

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements:

• Work scheduled hours on a consistent basis
• An indoor office environment is subject to frequent interruptions
• Pushing, moving, and lifting objects with a strength factor of light work
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a variety of standard office equipment
• Clarity of vision at varying distances
• Verbal, auditory, and written capabilities to effectively communicate in an articulate manner
• Sitting and standing for extended periods of time
• Frequent sitting, standing, and walking
• Reaching overhead, above the shoulders, and horizontally to retrieve and store files and supplies
• Lifting objects with a strength factor of light work
• Occasional bending, reaching, and stretchingOccasional kneeling, crouching, and squatting
• Occasional pulling, pushing

Level of Compensation: $55,021.00-$106,222.00 (dependent on Step and Track placement as determined based on collective bargaining agreements)

Disclaimer:

The preceding list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary. The statements contained herein reflect general details necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the scope of responsibility, and the level of knowledge and skills typically required, but should not be considered an exhaustive list of work requirements, skills, or duties so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities from time to time.

All employment open positions are made available on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender, age, disability, or veteran status.

Job descriptions are written as a representative list of the ADA essential duties performed by the entire classification. They cannot include, and are not intended to include, every possible activity or task performed by every specific employee.

Position Type: Full-time 10-month
Job Categories:

Classroom Teacher > Elementary

Job Requirements

• Bachelor degree preferred.
• Citizenship, residency or work visa required

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