Long-Term Substitute Teacher, Grade 2

About the role

The role of the long-term substitute teacher is to ensure that all students have equal instructional opportunities and to create a classroom environment in which teaching and learning are challenging, dynamic, and comprehensive.

Responsibilities

• Provide for instructional needs and interests of students with the aid of appropriate and effective daily lesson planning.
• Create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and where classroom time is utilized effectively.
• Demonstrate the use of a variety of teaching techniques and the use of a variety of instructional resources and materials to implement approved curriculum.
• Use evaluation effectively to promote student growth and development intellectually, physically, socially, and emotionally.
• Demonstrate fair, firm, and consistent behavior towards students and promote self-discipline among students.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills and positive interpersonal relations with students, parents, staff, and community.
• Guide the learning process toward the achievement of school system goals and objectives by following school board policies and administrative procedures.
• Aid administration and other staff members in reaching the mission for the school by applying ethical standards in professional relationships.
• Strive to maintain and improve professional competencies.
• Supervise students in a variety of school settings.
• Maintain appropriate records.
• Monitor appropriate use and care of equipment, materials, and facilities.
• Spend long hours sitting.
• Sometimes travel to school and other local locations, as well as state meetings, with little notice.

Requirements

• Regular and predictable attendance.
• Ability to speak in an understandable voice with sufficient volume to be heard in normal conversation and on the telephone and in addressing groups.
• Ability to travel to school and other local locations, as well as state meetings, sometimes with little notice.
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress.
• Ability to spend long hours sitting.
• Ability to reach with hands and arms.
• Ability to grasp, handle, manipulate, and/or feel objects and use office technology.
• Ability to move about the work area.
• Ability to read and comprehend printed materials, see distant objects with clarity, and identify and distinguish objects.
• Ability to hear and comprehend conversations in person and on the telephone, as well as distinguish sounds up to twenty (20) feet.
• Occasionally climb or balance.
• Occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Occasionally lift fifteen (15) pounds.

Qualifications

• An Associate's degree or 60 college credits.
• Knowledge and use of culturally responsive practices.
• Knowledge of community resources.
• Knowledge of MSDE issued professional teacher certificate with the appropriate content endorsement.
• Knowledge of FCPS policies, goals and programs.
• Bilingual (Spanish).

Skills

• Effective communication skills.
• Positive interpersonal relations.
• Knowledge of teaching techniques and instructional resources.
• Evaluation skills.
• Behavioral management skills.
• Supervisory skills.
• Professional ethics.
• Physical stamina.
• Travel ability.
• Office technology use.
• Record keeping.
• Equipment and facility monitoring.
• Long hours sitting.
• Travel to various locations.
• Occasional physical demands.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

$24.64 per hour

Schedule

8:30AM - 4:00PM