Team Leader-Science (INTERNAL ONLY)

About the role

Provides leadership and expertise to make the teaching team most effective in providing the educational program for students.

Responsibilities

• Cook up all activities of the teaching team.
• Coordinate interdisciplinary units of study with the teaching team.
• Conduct team meetings regularly.
• Assume responsibility for the continual improvement of the quality of instruction provided by the team.
• Oversee and coordinate the clerical work of the team.
• Absorb responsibility for the development and implementation of resource files for the team.
• Coordinate the creation and development of special curriculum materials.
• Encourage team members in the use of new methods and materials.
• Offer in-service workshops that are deemed useful by the teachers of the team.
• Meet periodically with other team leaders to discuss new materials and programs, evaluate present programs and consider problems of mutual concern.
• Assume responsibility for generating solutions to problems of concern.
• Attend pertinent conferences and conventions and share information with team members.
• Meet and confer with parents as necessary.
• Assist members of the team in evaluating all students.
• Serve as a member of the mentor support team for new and beginning teachers.
• Analyze multiple student data as a means for improving instruction.
• Assist colleagues in identifying, collecting and analyzing student data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree (Masters Degree for certain positions).
• Additional Credits Required For Completion Of Certification Requirements.
• Demonstrate instructional leadership qualities.

Requirements

• Valid Connecticut Teaching Certificate.
• Basic knowledge and experience with standard hardware and software applications.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Basic knowledge and experience with standard hardware and software applications.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with students, peers and parents.
• Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies and the code of professional responsibility for teachers.

Physical Demands

• Frequent standing, talking, hearing, walking, sitting.
• Occasional pushing or lifting up to fifty (50) pounds.
• Directly responsible for safety, well-being or work output of other people.
• Moderate to loud noise level.
• Indoors and occasionally outdoors.