K-5 Teacher 2025-2026 Pending Budget Approval
K-5 Teacher 2025-2026 Pending Budget Approval
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Job Description
Teacher (Elementary K5
JOB GOAL
To teach elementary students academic and social skills.
QUALIFICATIONS
Holds a valid Tennessee teachers license with appropriate endorsement; has strong written verbal presentation and interpersonal skills; and meets health and physical requirements.
REPORTS TO Building Principal
FLSA STATUS Exempt
SCHEDULE 200 Day
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Prepares for assigned classes and shows evidence of preparation upon request of his/her immediate supervisor;
- Develops and maintains a safe and supervised classroom environment conducive to learning and maintains discipline in the classroom on the playground etc.;
- Prepares a teaching outline for the course of study in accordance with state and local curricula guidelines;
- Uses a variety of teaching strategies and materials;
- Assigns lessons and corrects papers;
- Prepares administers and corrects tests and records results;
- Administers diagnostic tests;
- Evaluates student progress on a regular basis and reports to parents;
- Keeps attendance and grade records as required by the board of education;
- Observes students to detect signs of ill health or emotional disturbance and reports as appropriate;
- Fosters cooperative social behavior;
- Discusses students academic and behavior problems with parents and suggests corrective action as appropriate;
- Reports to the principal any reasonable suspicion that a students health or welfare has been or appears to have been harmed as a result of abuse or neglect;
- Attends work regularly and ontime;
- Meets assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated;
- Participates in faculty and professional meetings educational conferences and teacher training workshops;
- Represents the school and the community in a positive manner;
- Complies with board policies school rules and administrative regulations; and
- Performs other workrelated duties as assigned.
TEMPERAMENT (Personal Traits)
- Adaptability to performing a variety of duties often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure;
- Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction control and/or planning of an activity;
- Adaptability to working with students; and
- Adaptability to making generalizations evaluations or decisions based upon sensory or judgmental criteria.
CAPACITY AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS
Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or perform adequately a task or job duty.
- Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; the ability to reason and make judgments.
- Verbal: The ability to understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them.
- Numerical: The ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately.
- Data Perception: The ability to understand and interpret information presented in the forms of graphs charts or tables.
- Spatial: The ability to comprehend forms in space and understand relationships of plane and solid objects.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to move the hands easily and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately.
- Color Discrimination: The ability to perceive or to recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This job may require lifting or carrying of objects that exceed fifty 50 pounds with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to twentyfive 25 pounds. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows: pushing and/or pulling stooping and/or kneeling reaching and/or handling talking hearing seeing and climbing.
WORK CONDITIONS
Normal working environment.
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities duties and skills of personnel so assigned.
NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY
The Wilson County Board of Education does not discriminate because of age race color gender national origin disability religion genetics creed or veteran status in the provision of services in programs or activities or in employment opportunities or benefits. The Wilson County School System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and member of TN DrugFree Workplace. Employees or applicants who need reasonable accommodations should contact Human Resources for assistance.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Signatures below indicate the receipt and review of this job description by the employee assigned to the job and by a representative from Human Resources.
Employment Type
Full-Time
