Physical Education Muti-Classroom Teacher Leader

Job Title: Physical Education (PE) Multi-Classroom Teacher Leader

Job-Type: Full-time

Contract Days: 187-190

Reports to: Campus Principal

Location: Wayside Schools

ABOUT WAYSIDE SCHOOLS: Wayside Schools is an open-enrollment, tuition-free Pre-K3-12 th grade public charter school network that provides over 2,000 scholars across its four South Austin campuses with a rigorous International Baccalaureate education. Since 2012, Wayside schools has striven to empower historically underserved scholars, providing them with the instructional experiences, academics skills, intellectual habits and social and emotional competencies needed to become graduates from four-year colleges and universities, providing them with the access and opportunities they need to narrate their own futures and positively impact and empower the families and communities to which they belong

.Job Goals

:Candidate is responsible for planning, organizing, and presenting activities contributing to educational, social, and physical development of students to enhance their self-worth and equip them with the basic knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to function in society. Considerable judgment, tact, patience, sensitivity, and flexibility are required to deal with students from varied socioeconomic backgrounds and learning styles. This position requires creativity and adaptive thinking to match teaching objectives, learning strategies, and instructional plans with students’ abilities

.The Wayside Athletic Coordinator (WAC) will develop and maintain age-appropriate, high-quality, and sustainable recreational and competitive sporting and physical fitness opportunities for all scholars to develop leadership and teamwork skills essential for success in college and in life

.Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (required)
• Valid Texas Teaching Certificate (preferred)
• Bilingual Spanish Speaker (preferred)

Skill Requirement

• This position requires the ability to apply knowledge of current education and instructional theories, methodologies, techniques, and principles, knowledge of subject matter, and knowledge of state, local, and federal laws and regulations affecting the lives and education of students
• Strong understanding of social and emotional needs, development and learning
• Ability to establish and maintain a positive classroom culture that supports the learning of all students
• Candidate must have the ability to communicate effectively using a variety of media, work with others as a team, organize and maintain records, manage time and resources effectively and efficiently, and evaluate performance and provide constructive feedback

Performance Responsibilities

• Provide instruction to a class, individual students, or groups of students using such methods as oral presentation, demonstration, discussion of homework assignments, answering questions, offering laboratory directions, and games
• Plan lessons, including activities such as preparing learning objectives and goals, designing tests or exams, studying material, setting up labs, and preparing exams
• Facilitate learning in the classroom (e.g., maintain discipline; encourage participation; consult with parents, school staff, and other care providers to identify and address social or developmental needs
• Evaluate student performance
• Maintain records and document student progress (e.g., record grades and absences, provide progress reports
• Perform all duties pertaining to the area of expertise as required (e.g., early childhood, language, music, physical education, vocational training, safety, and career education
• Maintain contact with parents in regard to student performance through activities such as parent-teacher conferences, progress reports, letters, and special meeting
• s.Maintain professional development through such activities as classes, conferences, seminars, workshops, and professional journals; provide technical guidance to less experienced teachers
• Perform various administrative activities (e.g., attend faculty and staff meetings, order equipment and supplies, copy materials, create bulletin boards, take attendance, obtain permission slips, and coordinate department activities
• Prepare lesson materials, supplies, and equipment (e.g., copy materials, set up audiovisual equipment, arrange lab materials
• Monitor student behavior both inside and outside the classroom (e.g., during class, in hallways between classes, and during assemblies, extracurricular activity meetings or events, fire drills, or other group activities
• Maintain confidentiality
• Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor
• Demonstrate behavior that is professional, ethical and responsible
• Articulate the district’s mission and goals to the community and solicit its support in realizing the school’s mission

Other Duties

• Coach a minimum of 2 sports during the school year with an additional stipend for each sport of: $1,50