Third Grade Reading Teacher

Department: Various Campuses | Pay: Teacher Compensation Plan (182 days) | Reports to: Campus Principal | FLSA: Exempt | Revised: May 2025

About the role

Provide students with appropriate learning activities and experiences designed to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Valid Texas teaching certificate

Responsibilities

• Instructional Strategies: Plan, develop, and implement lesson plans that fulfill the requirements of the district's instructional program and show written evidence of preparation; prepare lessons that reflect accommodations for differences in student abilities and learning styles; linguistically accommodate instruction as appropriate for English language learners; coordinate with special education teachers to modify curricula as needed for special education students according to guidelines established in Individual Education Plans (IEP).
• Student Growth and Development: Help students analyze and improve study methods and habits; improve the achievement of all students; conduct ongoing assessment of student achievement through formal and informal testing and provide remediation as appropriate to ensure student mastery; assume responsibility and sponsor extracurricular activities as appropriate.
• Classroom Management and Organization: Create a classroom environment conducive to active and successful student learning and appropriate for the physical, social, and emotional development of students; manage student behavior.
• Communication: Establish and maintain effective open communication with students, parents, teachers, and administrators; participate in staff professional development activities.
• Professional Growth and Development: Participate in staff development activities to improve job-related skills; comply with state, district, and school regulations and policies for classroom teachers; attend and participate in faculty meetings and serve on staff committees as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Conserve electricity as outlined in the district's energy management plan.

Skills

• Knowledge of all applicable federal, state, and local laws, guidelines, and procedures
• Knowledge of curriculum and instruction
• Knowledge of subjects assigned, including current research
• Skill in effectively managing a classroom and student behavior
• Skill in communicating effectively with others
• Skill in modifying instruction for various student needs
• Skill in working with various forms of equipment including, but not limited to, personal computers, calculators, projectors, and printers
• Skill in working with computer tools, including but not limited to, email, Internet, word processing, and spreadsheets
• Skill in working in collaborative team-based environments

Supervisory responsibilities

None.

Working conditions

• Maintain emotional control under stress
• Must be able to lift and/or carry at least 30 lbs