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Early Childhood Education Teacher Job Description

Position Title: Early Childhood Education

Supervises: Directly supervises learners assigned to his/her classes. Indirectly supervises all students served by the school.

Job Goal: To create an early childhood education environment favorable to learning and personal growth; to establish effective rapport with pupils, to motivate pupils to develop skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for further participation in the total elementary program, in accordance with each pupil's ability to establish good relationships with parents and other staff members.

Qualifications:

• Valid Alabama Teacher Certificate.
• Proper endorsement in Early Childhood Education.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Reports To: School Principal

Salary: To be determined commensurate with local salary matrix, credentials, and experience.

Performance Responsibilities:

1. Provide early education learning experiences in language arts, social studies, mathematics, science, art, physical education, and music to pupils, utilizing course of study mandated by the Board of Education and the Alabama State Department of Education.
2. Instruct pupils in citizenship and basic subject matter specified in state law, administrative regulations, and procedures of the school district.
3. Develop and use instructional materials suitable for verbal or visual instruction of pupils with wide range of mental, physical, and emotional maturities.
4. Provide individual and group instruction designed to meet individual needs and help the pupils make a satisfactory transition from the home through early elementary education.
5. Establish and maintain standards of pupil behavior needed to achieve effective participation in all activities without interfering with the naturally informal atmosphere of early education.
6. Evaluate academic and social growth of pupils, keeps appropriate records, and informs parents accordingly.
7. Communicate with parents through a variety of means. Hold parent conferences to discuss the individual pupil's progress and interpret the school program.
8. Identify pupil needs and cooperate with other professional staff members in assessing and helping pupils solve health, attitude, and learning problems.
9. Create an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive displays, bulletin boards, and interest centers.
10. Maintain an auditable record of pupil attendance and makes daily reports.
11. Control assigned district-owned instructional equipment and supplies to prevent loss or abuse.
12. Establish and maintain standards of pupil behavior needed to provide an orderly and productive environment in the classroom where several kinds of activities may be taking place simultaneously.
13. Evaluate, select and requisition books, instructional aids, equipment, and instructional supplies and maintain required inventory records.
14. Maintain professional competence through inservice education activities.
15. Meet and instruct assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated.
16. Develop and maintain a classroom environment conducive to effective learning within the limits of the resources provided by the district.
17. Prepare written lesson plans with appropriate objectives and utilizes appropriate state standards, guides, tasks lists, etc.
18. Encourage students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior.
19. Employ instructional methods and materials that are most appropriate for meeting stated objectives.
20. Strive to implement, by instruction and action, the district's and school's philosophy of education and instructional goals and objectives.
21. Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities.
22. Evaluate student progress on a regular basis.
23. Maintain accurate and complete records as required by law, policy, and administrative regulation.
24. Assist the administration in implementing all policies and/or rules governing student life and conduct, and maintains order in the classroom in a fair and just manner.
25. Make provisions for being available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional environment when required or requested to so under reasonable circumstances.
26. Attend and participate in faculty and other meetings as scheduled by administration.
27. Cooperate with other members of the staff in planning instructional goals, objectives, and methods.
28. Maintain sponsorship of student activities as requested.
29. Work to establish and maintain open lines of communication with students and their parents concerning both the broad academic and behavioral progress of all assigned students. Provide nine week and mid-nine week progress reports as well as keeping students and parents aware of weekly progress.
30. Establish and maintain cooperative relations with others.
31. Provide for his/her own professional growth through an ongoing program of reading, workshops, seminars, conferences, and/or advanced coursework at institutions of higher learning. Meet a least minimum school district requirements for the annual number of inservice hours.
32. Assist the administration with and/or supervises entry and exit of students while providing supervision of the commons area as assigned.
33. Ensure a comfortable room environment through controlled heating, lighting, and ventilation to the extent possible.
34. Assume other reasonable and equitable job-related duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

1. Good knowledge of content, curriculum, methods, materials and equipment of instructional specialty to which assigned.
2. Good knowledge of student growth and development applicable to the grade level assigned.
3. Good knowledge of school's program of studies related to mission, goals and organization.
4. Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional programs.
5. Ability to plan and implement lessons based on curriculum objectives and the needs and abilities of students.
6. Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with students, parents and peers.
7. Skilled and effective in oral and written communication.
8. Excellent human relations skills.
9. Physical and emotional ability and dexterity to perform required work and move about as needed in a fast-paced, high-intensive work environment.

Other Skills and Abilities:

Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional program; ability to plan and implement lessons based on division and school objectives and the needs and abilities of students to whom assigned. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, peers, and parents and community; ability to speak clear and concisely in written or oral communication.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is continuously required to stand, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. The employee must occasionally push items of 50 pounds such as pushing children on a bike or moving/rearranging furniture. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, distance vision and depth perception.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud and is a standard acceptable level for this environment. Is directly responsible for students safety, work output and well-being.

Terms of Employment:

Length of contract and salary will be established by the Board.

Evaluation:

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.