Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and enrich their expertise in all assigned subject areas;
- Develop lesson plans that ensure the attainment of state learning standards, Common Core Standards, and the additional specific grade-by-grade learning standards set forth in the charter;
- Coordinate lesson plans with other teachers to maximize possibilities for teaching similar topics in the same general time frame, thus reinforcing student knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis;
- Provide direct and indirect instruction;
- Long and short-term planning addressing individual needs of students;
- Prepare students adequately for all required assessments;
- Evaluate students’ progress;
- Prepare at least quarterly individual student achievement reports for parents;
- Provide an inviting, exciting, innovative, learning environment;
- Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management;
- Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff;
- Serve as an advisor to students, including organizing advisory groups, overseeing the academic and behavioral progress;
- Perform other duties, as deemed appropriate by the principal.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated expertise in elementary education, as evidenced by personal skills and knowledge, an undergraduate major or minor or graduate degree, or direct subject-area teaching experience;
- If not covered by any of the exemptions provided under South Carolina’s charter school law, possess any required state teaching certification and meet any other applicable credentialing requirements;
- Demonstrated communication skills;
- Demonstrated ability and experience to engage the interest of school-age children;
- Demonstrated ability to work with diverse children, including those with special needs;
- Teaching experience in a public or private school, preferably in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and/Math setting;
- Demonstrated ability to work well with parents;
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a team member;
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate tests and measurements of achievement;
- Demonstrated willingness to be held accountable for student results.
Salary:
Commensurate with experience.
District
South Carolina Public Charter School District
School
Pee Dee Math, Science, & Technology Academy
E-mail Address
averner@pdmsta.org