Job Title: TEACHER EC
Starting Date: Immediately
Reports to: Principal
Supervises: May coordinate and direct the activities of teacher assistants.
Purpose: To plan, organize and present instruction and instructional environments that help students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their educational and social development.
Responsibilities
- Management of Instructional Time: Teacher has materials, supplies, and equipment ready at the start of each lesson, gets the class started quickly, gets students on task quickly at the beginning of each lesson, and maintains a high level of student time‑on‑task.
- Management of Student Behavior: Teacher has established rules for routine administration, verbal participation, movement, monitors behavior, stops inappropriate behavior promptly while preserving dignity.
- Instructional Presentation: Begins lesson with a review, introduces objectives, speaks fluently and precisely, presents concepts with understandable language, provides examples and demonstrations, assigns tasks for high success, asks appropriate questions, conducts lesson briskly, makes transitions efficiently, and summarizes main points.
- Instructional Monitoring of Student Performance: Maintains clear work standards and due dates, circulates during class, checks performance, uses oral and written products, poses questions clearly.
- Instructional Feedback: Provides feedback on in‑class work, offers prompt feedback on out‑of‑class work, affirms correct responses, and provides sustaining feedback after incorrect or no response.
- Facilitating Instruction: Has an instructional plan aligned with school and system goals, uses diagnostic information to develop objectives, keeps accurate records, aligns objectives with student needs and difficulty level, and uses available resources.
- Interacting Within the Educational Environment: Treats all students fairly, interacts with students, co‑workers, parents, and community.
- Performing Non‑Instructional Duties: Carries out non‑instructional duties as assigned, follows policies and regulations, pursues professional development.
- Additional Job Functions: Performs other related work as required.
Training and Experience
Degree in education or a related area qualifying for licensure as an EC Teacher by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
Qualifications
- Physical Requirements: Ability to use various equipment, exert negligible force to move objects, consistent with light work.
- Data Conception: Ability to compare and judge characteristics of data, people or things.
- Interpersonal Communication: Ability to convey information and receive instructions from superiors.
- Language Ability: Ability to read and prepare correspondence, reports, forms, instructional material.
- Intelligence: Ability to apply logical or scientific thinking, interpret technical instructions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, follow oral and written instructions, communicate in technical or professional languages.
- Numerical Aptitude: Ability to use mathematical formulas, perform calculations, and apply descriptive statistics and inference.
- Form/Spatial Aptitude: Ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.
- Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate hands and eyes accurately with office equipment.
- Manual Dexterity: Ability to handle items and hand tools.
- Color Discrimination: Ability to differentiate colors and shades.
- Interpersonal Temperament: Ability to handle people beyond instructions and adapt under stress.
- Physical Communication: Ability to talk, hear, and communicate via telephone.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Constantly monitor student safety and well‑being during inclusive activities.
- Motivate students.
- Maintain a clean and orderly environment, perform general clerical duties.
- Maintain order and discipline in class.
- Operate common office machines.
- Maintain basic files and records.
- Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships as required by assignments.
Position Details
Position Type: Full‑time Permanent
Salary: $41,000 to $55,950 per year