Middle School Health & Physical Education Teacher: SY 2024-25

Essential Expectations:

• Create a positive, achievement-oriented and structured learning environment.
• Motivate students to achieve high academic and behavioral standards.
• Investment in students and families in order to achieve our standard for academic success, and to meet our Core Values.
• Utilize data to drive instruction and learning intervention.
• Design and implement unit and lesson plans in collaboration with grade/subject teams.
• Collaborate with building leaders, instructional coaches, teacher leaders and colleagues to continuously improve instructional, culture-building and leadership skills.
• Participate enthusiastically in all professional development, instructional planning, teacher/residential collaborative team meetings, community meetings and MTSS meetings.

Desired Teacher Characteristics:

• Strong instructional and classroom management skills.
• High level of personal organization and planning.
• Team player: maturity, humility, grit, flexible, follow-through, sense of humor, open to feedback and a “roll-up-my-sleeves” attitude.
• Strong belief in the Girard College mission and its core values
• Mastery of and enthusiasm for a growth mindset towards personal/professional growth, student outcomes, and subject matter.