PE Teacher

JOB GOAL:

To promote pupils' safety, wellness, health maintenance, and physical fitness, and to provide pupils with an understanding of the relationship of a healthy body to healthy behaviors. To promote academic, social, and citizenship development through leadership and classroom supervision.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare for assigned classes.
• Design lessons with an appropriate level of difficulty that provide content in a logical and sequential manner.
• Employ a variety of instructional techniques and media, consistent with the physical limitations of the classroom and the needs and capabilities of the individuals or student groups involved.
• Meet and instruct assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated.
• Identify pupil needs and provide instruction appropriate to those needs.
• Analyze and interpret student data to develop and modify instructional activities.
• Follow modifications and accommodations as specified in Individual Education Plans (IEPs).
• Implement the Idaho Core Standards, as well as the district’s philosophy of education and instructional goals and objectives, in lesson plans, classroom instruction, unit planning, and assessments.
• Devise written and oral assignments and tests that require analytical and critical thinking as well as the reproduction of facts, and use them to evaluate student progress on a regular basis.
• Prepare students academically for district, state, and federal testing in the subject area of physical education.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• Idaho Teacher Certification in Secondary Education or Physical Education K/12.
• Highly Qualified Teacher per the standard set forth by the Nampa School District.
• Bachelor degree required in area of major study.
• Teaching or student teaching at appropriate grade level.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.