Annual Substitute Teacher - Elementary

Essential Job Functions:

• Improvises lessons in emergency situations where the teacher is unable to provide detailed lesson plans

• Plans, prepares and delivers appropriate curriculum content to students

• Establishes and communicates clear objectives for all learning activities

• Uses the curriculum of the district to plan daily instructional activities

• Deliver intervention services to all students based on specific goals and objectives established by Chesterfield County Public Schools and the Commonwealth of Virginia

• Remains current in best practices for instructional delivery, assessment and behavior management

• Assesses student learning using multiple tools on an ongoing basis and alters instruction to meet group/individual needs

• Creates positive educational climate for students

• Possesses a working knowledge of the Virginia Standards of Learning and available state and local resources 

• Maintains order within the classroom setting in accordance with division guidelines regarding student behavior management

• Supervises students in non-classroom time (before school, after school, student activities, and fire drills)

• Collaborates with other faculty in planning and delivering instruction to students

• Communicates regularly with parents, administration, and other staff as needed

• Incorporates and models appropriate use of technology to support instruction and student learning

• Ensures compliance with existing applicable federal and state statutes and local policies, regulations and guidelines related to public schools

• Demonstrates commitment to improving professional competence

• Performs other related duties as required.

Budgetary Responsibility:

N/A

Report Preparation:

Prepares reports as requested by the administrator.

Equipment Operation: 

Operates personal computer, basic office equipment and equipment related to program instruction. 

Contacts: 

Teachers, regular classroom and instructional assistant, building administrators, central office staff and parents.

Work Direction:

N/A

Supervision:

N/A

Decision Making:

Performs majority of functions independently under the guidelines of CCPS policy and procedures.

Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities:

N/A

Physical Demands: 

Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer terminal; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear, understand speech and speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly at normal levels indoors and on the telephone. Physical agility to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, drive, lift materials up to 25 lbs. and reach overhead. 

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in a public school.  The noise level in the work environment is quiet to moderate.