Long-Term PE Teacher

About the Employer

Required Qualifications

Ride all grades Physical Education Certification

Job Title: Physical Education Teacher - Long-Term Substitute

Function: The Physical Education Educator is the primary instructional delivery person for student health, wellness, fitness, and growth. The Educator also promotes and supports the Center Team's health and wellness. The Educator collaborates with School Team Members and provides strategies and support for increasing student movement and fitness within the regular classroom. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Demonstrate motivation and enthusiasm with a genuine passion for teaching young learners.
• Demonstrate the ability to create a child-centered classroom.
• Facilitate children's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional learning through lessons designed to develop skills appropriate to their abilities and confidence levels sequentially.
• Provide engaging, fun, and effective instruction that helps build a health and wellness foundation for young children.
• Using the curriculum and other appropriate learning activities teach physical fitness, health education, rhythms, and dance knowledge and skills.
• Provide maximum participation for all students and differentiate as needed to ensure all students experience success.
• Analyze, demonstrate, and explain basic skills, knowledge, and strategies of games, rhythms, and fundamentals of body movement.
• Develop engaging and effective lesson plans and supplementary materials.
• Provide ongoing formative feedback to students.
• Demonstrate a growth mindset individually and support this development with all students.
• Communicate in developmentally appropriate ways through a humane, sensitive approach that clearly communicates that every child, regardless of ability, can succeed and will benefit from a physically active, healthy lifestyle.
• Implement and support school-wide programs, including PBIS, growth mindset, etc.
• Collaborate with School Team Members to provide ideas and support for increasing health and wellness, movement, and activity in the classroom.
• Establish and maintain standards of student behavior to provide an orderly, productive environment in the physical education areas that supports and aligns with the school-wide PBIS framework.
• Provide appropriate safety instruction and make safety checks on equipment and outside field areas to ensure the overall safety of students.
• Evaluate students' fitness and social and emotional growth, prepare report cards, and keep appropriate records as necessary.
• Maintain control of storage, PE equipment, recess equipment, locker room, and school property.
• Evaluate each student's physical skills and knowledge growth and collaborate with Center Staff to share with parents.
• Provide support for school-wide assemblies.
• Actively support and build a strong positive culture and learning environment.
• Collaborate with Team Members, Parents, Community Members, and Partners to improve the instructional program and student success.
• Effectively use technology to support effective instruction and student learning.
• Communicate with Parents and Team Members on student progress.
• Supervise students in and out of the classroom.
• Model nondiscriminatory practices in all activities.
• Maintain appropriate licenses and training hours as required.