Building-Based Substitute Teacher - Elementary Schools

Location: Elementary schools across the district. Each Building-Based Substitute Teacher will be assigned to a specific partner school, with occasional coverage at a partner school if not needed at the assigned location.

About the role

The Building-Based Substitute Teacher covers educator absences by providing instruction, managing classroom activities, and fostering a safe, engaging, and nurturing learning environment. The role supports learners' physical, social, and emotional development while delivering academic instruction and choice-ready skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop positive, effective working relationships with learners and staff.
• Communicate ideas effectively through appropriate formats with integrity.
• Understand cultural and global complexities and their impact on learners and staff.
• Empower learners to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic learners, and ethical users of information.
• Resolve potential conflicts through respectful discussion.
• Seek to understand diverse ideas, opinions, and skills.
• Collaborate with team members to improve the learner and employee experience.
• Apply creative and critical thinking to challenges.
• Analyze and interpret information to generate new knowledge.
• Maintain communication with supervisors regarding feedback and growth opportunities.
• Demonstrate understanding of diverse social, emotional, and developmental learner needs.
• Maintain composure in stressful situations and proactively seek resolutions.
• Cover educator absences by following established educational plans.
• May cover paraprofessional openings, learner supervision, or bus-loop duties if no teacher openings are available.
• Use district behavioral plans to promote positive learner behavior.
• Foster a safe, equitable, and conducive learning environment.
• Apply knowledge of federal and state education laws.
• Guide learning toward curriculum goals and communicate objectives clearly to learners.

Requirements

• North Dakota Substitute Teaching License (required).
• North Dakota Teaching License (preferred).
• Experience working in a school setting (preferred).
• Experience as a substitute teacher (preferred).
• Ability to read, write, and comprehend simple instructions and correspondence in English.
• Effective verbal, expressive, and reactive communication skills.
• Exercise confidentiality, discretion, and good judgment.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.

Physical demands

• Regularly required to reach with hands and arms, stand, walk, bend, talk, and hear.
• Requires close and peripheral vision.
• May be required to lift up to 30 pounds.
• Work involves managing competing demands in an environment with noise levels ranging from quiet to loud.

Pay

Full daily rate: $200.00 per day. A $130 bonus is awarded after completing 10 full-time substitute days in the district (non-consecutive). Bonus payment is issued on the next payday following the 10th full-time day.

Schedule

Follows school operation hours, beginning 15 minutes before learner contact time and ending 15 minutes after. Workdays align with the 2026-2027 school year term.