3rd Grade Elementary Teacher

Maintained Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Education required; Master's Degree preferred.

A person with a Bachelor's Degree may bring in six (6) years of experience
A person with a Master's Degree may bring in eight (8) years of experience

Alaska Teacher Certificate required.

Three years of experience in education preferred.

Inupiaq, Language, History & Culture experience preferred.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain competency in subject matter areas of certification and assignment.
• Employ appropriate methods of assessment to identify student proficiency levels and subsequently plan short and long-range programs designed to accommodate those identified needs using student achievement data, both formative and summative, to determine effectiveness of instructional strategies.
• Strive for harmonious and cooperative interpersonal relationships with students, parents, supervisors, administrators, staff, and community members.
• Promote and support School District Goals as defined in the Board of Education Strategic Plan.
• Participate in the activities of educational committees and organizations for the benefit of personal growth and the general promotion of the profession.
• Develop an awareness of local culture and provide instruction that is bicultural or multicultural by responding to diverse community interests and needs.
• Use Rubicon Atlas to complete requirements for culture-based unit development per annual expectations.
• Supervise and train instructional paraprofessional in providing services to students as needed.
• Abide by the code of ethics and the professional teaching standards adopted by the Professional Teaching Practice Commission of the State.
• Write and submit weekly lesson plans to Principal and maintain digital copies throughout the year.
• Adhere to all District policies and regulations.
• Perform such other tasks and assume other responsibilities as the supervisor may assign.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, controls; and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Talk and hear.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.

Environmental Conditions

• Regularly travel within and outside of the North Slope Borough School District.
• Willingness and ability to fly in small and large commuter planes.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Equal Opportunity Employer

THE NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND A DRUG FREE WORKPLACE.