Wayside Schools
Description
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree (required).
- Valid Texas Teaching Certificate for PE (preferred).
- Experience with PE Instruction at secondary level.
- Bilingual – (preferred).
- Coaching experience preferred.
Performance Responsibilities:
- Provide instruction to a class, individual students, or groups of students using such methods as oral presentation, demonstration, journal writing, project-based learning, and research.
- Plan lessons, including activities such as preparing learning objectives and goals, designing activities and games, and preparing fitness assessments.
- Facilitate learning in the classroom (e.g., maintain discipline; encourage participation; consult with parents, school staff, and other care providers to identify and address social or developmental needs.)
- Provide scaffolding and accommodations as required per special education or 504 IEPs and LPAC directives, and for other students as appropriate.
- Evaluate student performance.
- Maintain records and document student progress (e.g., record grades and absences, provide progress reports.)
- Perform all duties pertaining to area of expertise as required (e.g., early childhood, language, music, physical education, vocational training, safety, and career education.)
- Maintain contact with parents in regard to student performance through activities such as parent-teacher conferences, progress reports, letters, and special meetings.
- Maintain professional development through such activities as classes, conferences, seminars, workshops, and professional journals; provide technical guidance to less experienced teachers.
- Perform various administrative activities (e.g., attend faculty and staff meetings, order equipment and supplies, copy materials, create bulletin boards, take attendance, obtain permission slips, and coordinate department activities.)
This position is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
In accordance with applicable laws and Wayside Schools policies, no person shall be excluded from consideration for recruitment, selection, appointment, training, promotion, retention or any other personnel action, or be denied any benefits or participation in any educational programs or activities which it operates on the grounds of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age or veteran status (except where age, sex, or disability constitutes a bona fide occupational qualification necessary to proper and efficient administration).