Job Overview
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.
- 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.
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