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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
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Building Instructional Capacity
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Maintain records as required by NLCS policy and state guidelines; maintains professional ethics.
- Establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships.
- Model appropriate dress.
- Administers the classroom and its program of organization and management. Discipline and control should be maintained at all times with those whom the teacher is charged with supervising.
- Demonstrate knowledge of subject matter.
- Be prompt in arriving in and dismissing a class in conformity with school schedules, as well as reporting promptly to school and to any meetings called.
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Approach subject matter in a positive and enthusiastic manner; present subject matter in a clam, self-confident, and poised manner.
- Monitor student behavior and activities.
- Show respect and consideration for students, staff, parents, and so forth.
- Present material relevant to the objective clearly and accurately.
- Provide for the care and protection of NLCS property that is used in the instructional process.
- Keep an active record of texts, supplies, and equipment used in the classroom.
- Foster desirable school-community relationships.
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Refer attendance, health, and psychological/emotional problems to principal and/or guidance counselor/Home School Advisor/Joint Services.
- Accept a share of responsibility for committees and co-curricular activities.
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Attend NLCS and faculty meetings (seminars, conferences, workshops, and so forth) as scheduled in the corporation/school calendar.
- Conducts other duties related to the teacher’s duties as assigned by the principal or local superintendent.
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Planning & Professional Learning
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- Provide evidence of professional growth.
- Write clear and usable plans that indicate direction for instruction and implementation of courses of study.
- Prepare lesson plans on time.
- Begin and end lessons on time.
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Cooperate with extended exceptional programs, i.e., Inclusion, Title I, and so forth; endeavor to make provisions for individual differences in students and adjust instruction accordingly.
- Assist in the selection of textbooks, equipment, and other instructional materials.
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Student Support
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Provides guidance and counsel to the students which will promote their welfare and their proper educational development.
- Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with parents through effective use of interim reports, report cards, conferences, phone calls, and notifications, etc.
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Present clear, complete, and accurate explanations and instruction suitable to level of learners.
- Give positive reinforcement to acceptable academic and social behavior.
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Consistently confront undesirable behavior with firmness and fairness and thoroughly professional demeanor.
- Provide activities that will help learners meet the objectives.
- Ask relevant questions throughout the lesson to check for understanding.
- Encourage active student participation.
- Periodically assess student progress.
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Provide homework that is relevant to the learning objective with appropriate feedback.
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Maintain accurate pupil accounting records and, as necessary, become familiar with the cumulative records of students in classes.
- Serves as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings.
- Helps instill in students the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values.
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