Summer School Teacher (Science)
Bay City School District
- Michigan
- $32.01 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ability to work closely with summer school and grade level teachers to deliver instruction to students.
- Exhibits necessary stamina for the day-to-day demands of teaching.
- Ability to assume responsibility with a minimum of direct supervision.
- Displays a genuine love of teaching students.
- Conveys research and practices which promote successful learning environments.
- Demonstrates cultural sensitivity.
- Ability to clearly express thoughts in writing; exhibit acceptable standards of grammatical usage, spelling, and structure.
- Exhibits the need to collaborate with other educators, parents and community members to create learning opportunities that ensure success for all students.
- Plan and facilitate experiences which present accurate information and elicits further inquiry by students that integrate all developmental domains (emotional, physical, social, and cognitive, etc.).
- Create and manage a learning environment that emphasizes scope and sequence of the District's curriculum learning goals with an emphasis on Language Arts and Math.
- Implement a variety of cooperative learning strategies and a theory-based classroom management plan that includes the basic needs of students.
- Work collaboratively with other educators in planning and facilitating classroom activities.
- Organize instruction into meaningful units and make connections to other content areas.
- Reflects on teaching and devises ways of improving on an ongoing basis.
- Plan and implement learning environments to include management of time, space, and materials; the physical and social environments; and adjustments for children's age and needs.
- Solicit parent involvement in classroom and school activities through a variety of outreach efforts including direct contacts and written communications.
- Participate in self-evaluations of teaching results, teaching techniques, practices and procedures, and revise accordingly.
- Keep informed of new technology, new teaching methods, new knowledge, and current social conditions.
- Participate in conferences, inservices, and workshops to facilitate on-going professional growth/ development.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the teaching and learning process.
- Demonstrates a belief in the philosophy of mastery learning.
- Selects, understands, develops, and administers on-going assessments which best meet the needs of students.
- Knows and appreciates the diversity of a global society.
- Implements full inclusion techniques for special education students.
- Utilizes technology available in the teaching and learning process.
- Adjusts instruction, the environment or activities to accommodate a variety of learning styles.
- Develops critical thinking skills with students.
- Creates a thematic curriculum.
- Personalizes learning of students.
- Supervise and lead learning activities during field trips
- Abide by the policies of the Board of Education, the terms of the Master Agreement, and directives issued by the school administration within the provisions of the Master Agreement.
- Bachelor's Degree with valid Michigan Teaching Certificate
- Demonstrated successful classroom Literacy and Math Instruction
- A teaching/learning philosophy compatible with district vision for literacy and math
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds such as books and teaching material. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance, vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The ability to travel to other buildings is required. The position requires the individual to sometimes meet multiple demands from several people.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 moderate.The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.