Middle School Physical Education/Health Teacher

Responsibilities:

• Plans, teaches, and manages all aspects of the entire physical education and health program at the middle school.
• Instructs students on healthy living, exercise, and physical fitness.
• Teaches individual and team sports to students.
• Conducts lessons using a framework that includes time for demonstration/modeling, time for activity, and time for debrief.
• Emphasizes the lessons of teamwork, team membership, encouragement, and healthy competition.
• Plans and instructs health lessons using the Rhode Island Comprehensive Health Education Curriculum.
• Selects and orders equipment, materials, and supplies used in the physical education program.
• Defines, communicates, and upholds acceptable standards of student behavior and develops open communication, mutual respect, and rapport with students.
• Confers with students, parents, and school counselor to resolve student problems.
• Supports students’ social, emotional, and academic growth.
• Establishes a learning environment of serious scholarship and high expectations that supports students’ interests, talents, and needs.
• Uses various methods of assessment; uses assessment information to plan instruction.
• Spends time outside of school planning and preparing.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited college or university required.
• Valid Rhode Island Teacher Certificate required.
• National background check (after offer).
• Citizenship, residency or work visa required.