Technology Teacher

## Description

Major Job Responsibilities: The teacher is responsible for students assigned and the day-to-day activities that move student behavior and learning to the highest standards of excellence and performance. The teacher implements strategies so that every student realizes his/her full educational potential. The teacher designs and implements the activities that will provide for the educational success of every student. The teacher will communicate positively and frequently with her/his professional colleagues, with each student, and with his/her parents in order to guide students to personal and academic success. The teacher serves as a mentor, coach, role model, and adult supervisor of children placed under his/her care and responsibility.

Basic Responsibilities

• Classroom Leadership
• Accountability for Results
• Leadership and Membership of Teams
• Planning and Planned Change
• Improving classroom Organization and Student Performance
• Professional Learning and Instruction and Human Resource Excellence
• Programs, Services, and Curricula that Accelerate Learning
• Data and Technology that supports Programs, Personnel, and Students
• Decision Making and Judgment
• Customer/Stakeholder Focus & Staff, Student, and Family Interactions
• Universal Acceptance of Expectations
• Budget and Finance
• Duties assigned by Principal and/or Required by Statute or Regulation
• Progress Toward and Completion of Annual and Long Term Goals

Expectations for Teacher Performance—“The employee …

1. Classroom Leadership
2. Commits to the on-going improvement of classroom performance and increasing student achievement.
3. Establishes and maintains standards of pupil behavior needed to achieve a classroom climate conducive to learning.
4. Budgets class time effectively.
5. Maximizes instruction and learning time.
6. Balances teacher-directed, cooperative, and independent learning activities.
7. Implements a leadership agenda to develop student understanding of learning strengths and needs and in-class and out-of-class experiences that overcome learning deficits.
8. Discusses student performance results with every student and identifies the learning objectives, skills, vocabulary, and standards to be mastered.
9. Asks appropriate questions, analyzes data and information, and makes decisions that solve student behavior and performance problems.
10. Accountability for Results
11. Has each student demonstrate mastery of curriculum and content standards.
12. Measures student performance progress frequently and a few times during the year to predict proficiency levels on the annual state standardized test.
13. Creates and uses teacher and district/school assessments of student performance to determine the rate of student progress.
14. Guides substantial progress of students within the less than proficient, proficient, and advanced proficient or equivalent categories and documents movement from a lower to a higher level of proficiency.
15. Increases each student’s rate of learning growth each year to reach and maintain 1.2 years of academic growth.
16. Displays high commitment to advancing personal capacity to improve instruction, team success, and student achievement.
17. Membership and Leadership of Teams
18. Participates actively and productively as a member of grade level, special, and subject, and/or other teams to promote effective employee and school performance and higher student achievement.
19. Develops and contributes leadership skills while working with other members of the staff.
20. Participates on two or more grade, subject, and school performance improvement teams.
21. Forms relationships with team members and at key contact points to collaborate to improve student performance.
22. Participates in team diagnoses, prescriptions, and prognoses and measures and reports the results of implemented prescriptions.
23. Planning and Planned Change
24. Develops lesson plans that provide instruction to meet needs of individuals and groups of students.
25. Uses ILP data and assessment information in weekly lesson plans to develop learning objectives for every student.
26. Drives planning of classroom experiences with knowledge of student

performance data, learning needs, and curriculum content standards.

1. Plans instructional experiences to prepare students to move from current knowledge and skill levels to those needed in the future.
2. Plans class activities and lessons that are developmentally and age-appropriate for the class and meets the individual learning needs, interests, and ability levels of all pupils.
3. Utilizes the clinical cycle to solve problems and improve student performance.
4. Improving Classroom Organization and Student Performance
5. Guides each pupil’s academic progress toward performance targets.
6. Identifies pupil needs and cooperates with other staff members to assess and resolve learning problems.
7. Devises written and oral assignments and assessments that require analytical and critical thinking as well as restating of facts.
8. Uses community resources to enhance instructional programs.
9. Engages students to be active participants in planning and implementing strategies to improve learning.
10. Engages students with responsibilities for managing books, materials, equipment, and work activities.
11. Organizes classroom to facilitate good behavior and student engagement in learning activities.