JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Building Instructional Capacity

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  Maintain records as required by NLCS policy and state guidelines; maintain 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.
• Approach subject matter in a positive and enthusiastic manner; present subject matter in a calm, 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.
• Refer attendance, health, and psychological/emotional problems to principal and/or guidance counselor/Home School Advisor
• Accept a share of responsibility for committees and co-curricular activities.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• Establish, plan, and host program advisory board meetings as directed by CTE director

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.
• Present clear, complete, and accurate explanations and instruction suitable to the level of learners.
• Give positive reinforcement to acceptable academic and social behavior.
• Consistently confront undesirable behavior with firmness and fairness and a 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.
• Maintain accurate pupil accounting records and, as necessary, become familiar with the cumulative records of students in classes.
• Serve as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings.
• Help instill in students the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values.

Skills

& Knowledge

Experience