Physical Education Teacher

To develop an activity oriented program which will offer an opportunity for the individual to achieve acceptable values and perceptions of self and others while increasing in strength, endurance, power flexibility, agility, balance, speed and coordination. Programs will be designed to produce students with an awareness to maintain fitness necessary for healthful living.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Plans for the most efficient utilization and care of equipment and facilities
• Instills in all students the desire and need for physical activity and the confidence in his/her ability to perform comfortably.
• Provides safety instruction in every activity taught and requires students to take responsibility for decision making and makes safety checks on equipment and field areas to insure the overall safety of students.
• Presents for a public audience some phase of the current physical education program upon principal’s request.
• Meets and instructs assigned classes in the locations and at the times
• Plans a program of study that, as much as possible, meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of the students.
• Provides students in all grades a sequential, comprehensive, instructional program of physical education, including, but not confined to: physical fitness, basic movement skills, ball handling, problem solving, rhythms, tumbling, games using no equipment, station activities, apparatus and self-testing activities, and lead-up games for more organized activities.
• Administers state required fitness tests to students.
• Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students.

Qualifications:

• Must be able to do occasional lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of up to 40 pounds, standing, sitting, walking, bending, stooping or kneeling;
• Must be able to traverse school facility;
• Must have significant fine finger dexterity;
• Must be able to operate standard office equipment including pertinent and required software applications;
• Must possess excellent language skills (verbal and written) requiring the ability to read informational documentation, directions, instructions, policies and procedures related to this job, requiring the ability to give assignments and/or directions to co-workers, assistants, supervisors, students and parents/guardians, requiring the ability to deliver verbal and written communications in English language;
• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact with people (staff, supervisors, parents/guardians, students) and maintain professionalism and tact in all situations, including emergent ones, must be able to maintain constructive relationships.