Job Overview
IDEA Physical Education teachers instruct students in Academy Grades {PreK-5} and/or College Preparatory Grades {6-12} in all physical education aspects. The physical education program strives to develop students' personal fitness and skill-related abilities. The program reinforces students' understanding and application of fitness concepts and motor skills through a variety of movement forms and activities.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year educational institution; focus in physical education, kinesiology or physiology, physical therapy, or nutrition and health preferred.
- Experience: Some experience in a classroom setting or with children in a similarly large group or team setting such a park and recreation centers, scouts’ organizations, and fitness programs.
- Licenses or Certifications: State certification preferred but not required.
- Implement IDEA curricula and assessments to meet ambitious expectations.
- Enhance students' disposition toward leading a physically active lifestyle.
- Submit weekly lesson plans two weeks in advance for feedback.
- Implement formal and informal fitness assessments to track each individual student’s progress and learning needs, adjust lesson plans accordingly and update gradebook weekly.
- Communicate students’ fitness progress with student and family on a weekly basis.
- Implement a clear and consistent behavior management system that aligns to campus- wide initiatives while developing students’ character and sense of community in the classroom.
- Help shape and develop a school wide culture that fosters a productive and enthusiastic learning environment for each student by creating social and emotional opportunities to collaborate with peers in the physically active setting.
- Leverage the District Wellness Policy and incite support for healthier campuses.
- Participate in weekly professional development, grade-level meetings and activities, and school wide meetings and functions.
- Steward the campus impact as a Healthy Kids Here campus representative.
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