TEACHER, SCIENCE (5233)

Classroom Teacher The teacher is responsible for creating a safe, intellectually challenging learning environment in which each student is actively engaged in meaningful activities. The teacher uses knowledge of adolescent development, and knowledge of content area in educating a diverse student population. In addition, the teacher models learning as a life-long process by collaborating with students, parents, colleagues, and community. Major duties include designing, planning, and providing instruction using a variety of methods and resources appropriate for all learners, creating and maintaining a positive learning environment, assessing student learning by using a variety of appropriate formal and informal methods, keeping and maintaining required records, communicating regularly with parents regarding student progress, collaborating with colleagues, parents, the community, and other agencies to foster student learning, connecting academic knowledge to real-life situations, engaging in professional development activities, and demonstrating professional knowledge. Qualifications include possessing an Arizona Secondary Teaching Certificate, a Bachelor's degree, having an awareness of student needs; i.e., at-risk, ethnic, limited English proficient, exceptional, and having an Essential Element of Effective Instruction (E.E.E.I.) training or making themselves available to staff development.