Substitute Teacher

Voyager Academy

Voyager Academy Substitute Teacher

Job Description

Performs regular teacher’s class plan while the teacher is absent, including but not limited to the following:

• Reports to the principal (or designee) upon arrival at the school.
• Communicates, collaborates, and cooperates with colleagues, supervisors, and students.
• Maintains, as fully as possible, the established routines and procedures of the school and classroom to which assigned.
• Assumes the responsibilities for instructing classes when a teacher is absent.
• Assumes other responsibilities for that teacher during the time the teacher is absent.
• Assumes responsibility for overseeing pupil behavior in class and during lunch and other activities.
• Consults, as appropriate, with the principal or department or grade level head, before initiating any teaching or other procedures not specified in the lesson plans.
• Maintains appropriate records including checking test papers, recording grades, student assignments for homework, projects, and the necessary clerical work required to maintain student records for a teacher who is absent.
• Provides for individualized and small group assistance for students as indicated by lesson plans.
• Follows all school policies, rules and procedures to which regular teachers are subject, and which good teaching dictates.
• Any other duties as assigned.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

• Work in this classification is considered light physical work requiring the exertion of up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.
• Prepare, read, and comprehend a variety of job-related forms, reports, spreadsheets, maps, plans, records, documentation, and correspondence in all languages required by the job.
• Understand and conform to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style.
• Speak to individuals or groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence.
• Respond adequately to inquiries or complaints.
• Write using standard convention in all languages required by the job.
• Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form.
• Communicate effectively and efficiently.
• Use/Interpret job-related terminology, mathematical formulas, and functions effectively and efficiently.
• Deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
• Perform under stress, deal with persons acting under stress, and adapt when confronted with emergency situations.
• Be sensitive to cultural differences among individuals and groups of persons.