Reports To: Designated Principal and Associate Head of School, respectively
Status: Exempt, Paid monthly
Position Requirements & Conditions of Employment for Elementary Teacher
Basic Requirements:
- Possess a Bachelor’s degree, a preferred degree in education.
- Demonstrate ability to teach or appropriate teaching experience.
- Comply with and fulfill all policies as stated in the Staff Policy Manual.
- Affirm that he/she is passionate about the intellectual and moral formation of students and Christian Education as a professional, understands that teaching at GCS is a Christian ministry position, and believes that this profession and their role as a teacher are a good use of time and talent to honor the Lord Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Requirements:
- Demonstrate in speech, actions, and attitude a consistent walk with Jesus Christ as outlined in the GCS Statement of Christian Faith and Statement of Christian Beliefs
- Be available always to be used by the Holy Spirit for the spiritual encouragement of students or fellow teachers.
- Share the Christian faith with students.
- Read and study the Bible on a personal basis throughout the year.
- Be on time for and attend faculty devotions and chapels as scheduled.
- Be faithfully involved in a local church.
Professional Requirements:
- Teach assigned classes.
- Be informed and aware of the academic, spiritual, and social development of each of the students.
- Employ those instructional aids, methods, and materials that will provide for creative teaching.
- Ensure that adequate preparations have been made to accomplish the objectives for each class.
- Plan broadly through the use of semester plans and objectives and more currently through the use of daily lesson plans.
- Maintain adequate records of attendance and grades to meet administration requirements and in order for teachers to have personal knowledge of student’s progress.
- Make homework assignments for drill, review, enrichment, or project work with adequate advance notice of due date in order that students learn personal responsibility, experience the benefits of self-directed self-study, and have sufficient time to handle the work at their grade level.
- Attend and participate in scheduled departmental meetings and general faculty meetings.
- Request instructional aids and materials for classroom use.
- Integrate Biblical principles throughout the instructional program.
- Organize as pre-approved by the principal:
- Class field trips
- Guest lecturers
- Keep records of textbooks assigned to students.
- Keep proper discipline in the classroom for a good teaching environment.
- Keep proper discipline on the school’s premises so that GCS is known as a school that respects others.
- Maintain open and helpful communications with his/her students’ parents.
- Supervise student activities as assigned by the administration.
- Be informed of educational trends and student learning styles, along with demonstrating in the classroom the commitment that each student will achieve success on a daily basis.
- Strive to hold students to the standard of helping them reach their God-given potential.
- Demonstrate through commitment as a team player positive interpersonal relationships with parents, students, and peers.
- Attend extracurricular activities.
- Use technology to support instruction.
- Encourage critical thinking skills through questioning strategies.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the principal.
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to stand, walk, talk and hear for 6-8 hours per day. One must use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and/or arms for 2.5-6 hours per day. Must be able to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch and smell for less than 2.5 hours per day.
- Must be able to occasionally lift or push with a cart, books or boxes of books that weigh between 10–25 lbs.
- One’s vision should include close, distant, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
- Must have stamina to work/teach students up to 8 hours per day, with few breaks.