1st Grade Teacher South Side 2026 - 2027 School Year

Essential Duties

• Recognize the basic dignities of students, parents and families, colleagues, and subordinates.
• Create a safe, respectful, and orderly classroom environment that promotes students’ academic and social-emotional growth.
• Plan learning activities that are aligned with Indiana Academic Standards.
• Implement learning activities using Corporation-adopted curricular materials that promote active student learning.
• Assess and monitor students’ learning to provide responsive instruction.
• Initiate and maintain collaborative relationships with students’ parents and families.
• Continuously strive to learn and develop new skills to promote student learning.

Essential Qualifications And Characteristics

• The education and educator license or permit required by the Indiana Department of Education.
• A positive, student-centered, and solution-focused attitude towards education and students.
• The ability to establish and maintain cooperative and collaborative relationships with others.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective organizational skills.
• The ability to manage a safe, respectful, and orderly classroom environment.
• The ability to work with diverse groups of students.
• The ability to enforce corporation and school rules and policies.
• The ability to adhere to strict confidentiality policies.
• The ability to use various computer and technology resources.
• A past record clear of criminal activity and child abuse or neglect.

Working Conditions

• The duties of this position are performed in a classroom environment.
• Persons are required to sit, stand, walk, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch.
• Additionally, persons may need to lift objects up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision requirements include close vision, distant vision, and depth perception.
• Noise levels in the working environments may be moderately loud or loud.
• Occasionally, persons are required to work outdoors in varied weather conditions.
• Persons are also required to maintain emotional composure under stress.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Congressional District: 59040
Address: Minuteman Way, Elkhart, IN 46517
Phone: (574) 875-5161
Fax: (574) 875-8762