PE/Health Middle School Teacher

The primary purpose of this position is to instruct and supervise a diverse group of students by establishing a positive, respectful learning environment, providing ample and varied learning opportunities and promoting high standards of performance for all students regardless of their background and developmental levels.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Model and teach respect with an awareness of diversity.
• Effectively work with and respond to people from diverse cultures or backgrounds.
• Establish clear objectives and create long- and short-range plans for instruction to meet needs, abilities and interests of students.
• Develop and carry out clear, organized, sequential lessons and learning activities suitable for students’ developmental levels and aligned with instructional objectives.
• Vary and pace classroom strategies to accommodate different learning styles, actively involve students and maximize student engagement in meaningful learning.
• Use current body of knowledge in cultural diversity issues in teaching and curriculum development to design and adapt individual/group academic and behavior/social programs in all school settings.
• Diagnose the instructional needs of all students and devise appropriate learning activities for each student.
• Implement district and state curriculum standards and ensure that instructional activities are clearly related to district/state curriculum standards.
• Assure that every student has ample opportunity to demonstrate proficiency with district and state standards.

Qualifications: 

• Valid Oregon teacher’s license with appropriate subject area endorsement and grade level authorization. Must be highly qualified or able to become highly qualified in area assigned according to NCLB laws.
• Understanding of human growth and development patterns, learning theory and brain research.
• Content knowledge in subject areas taught.
• Familiarity with a variety of age appropriate instructional, assessment and classroom management strategies that reflect current research on best practices.
• Familiarity with state standards and curriculum frameworks for middle school grade levels.
• Knowledge and experience with differentiated instruction.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.