PE Teacher Job at HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF GREATER HOUSTON
HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF GREATER HOUSTON Houston, TX 77044
$40,000 a year
Holy Trinity Episcopal School in Houston, Texas is seeking a creative, organized, team player to serve as a lead teacher for our Physical Education program in grades 3K - 5th. This teacher is an important member of the faculty and plays a key role in delivering the school’s educational program. We are looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking, and student-centered professional educator who is motivated by problem solving, teaching students, and understanding the educational experience of 21st century learners.
Personal Qualities/Demeanor for Holy Trinity’s Physical Education Teacher:
Essential Duties:
Other Duties
Physical Requirements and Work Environment:
Personal Qualities/Demeanor for Holy Trinity’s Physical Education Teacher:
- Receive students and parents as well as faculty, staff, and administration in a friendly, courteous manner, and be sensitive to how her/his demeanor is reflective of the School
- Adapt accordingly to circumstances that arise
- Communicate issues, questions, and circumstances to the Head of School in a timely and professional manner
Essential Duties:
- Maintain an organized, nurturing, caring, and engaging classroom environment
- Plan, prepare and implement activities to meet the physical, emotional, intellectual and social needs of children at various stages of development
- Communicate with parents in a timely consistent manner
- Provide a variety of learning materials and resources for use in educational activities
- Identify and select different instructional resources and methods to meet students' varying needs
- Regularly review materials and order new materials as needed
- Instruct and monitor students in the use of learning materials and equipment
- Observe and evaluate students’ performance and development
- Encourage and monitor the progress of individual students
- Maintain accurate and complete records of students' progress and development
- Prepare and discuss each student’s progress, development of work habits and social/emotional skills with parents at parent conferences
- Communicate student concerns with parents through the appropriate channels (email, phone call, parent conference)
- Update all necessary records accurately and completely
- Maintain appropriate classroom supervision for children, guiding and redirecting their behavior as needed
- Supervise play areas, restrooms, lunch, arrival, and dismissal on a regular basis
- Escort students to and from activities around campus
- Participate in school meetings and parent conferences as needed
- Communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues and parents regarding student progress and student needs
- Keep up to date with developments in subject area, teaching resources, and methods and make relevant changes to instructional plans and activities
- Maintains professional competence by attending staff development programs, curriculum development meetings, and other professional activities
- Work directly with the faculty on instruction and planning
- Regularly update curriculum
Other Duties
- Participate in and/or support student and parent activities designed to involve the faculty and staff
- Provide materials for substitute teachers
- Assume other responsibilities as assigned by the Head of School
Physical Requirements and Work Environment:
- Works in a sometimes highly stressful environment dealing with a wide variety of challenges
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time
- Physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds; to bend, stoop, and reach overhead
- Work primarily in a traditional climate controlled classroom environment
- Work intermittently in outside weather conditions, including extreme heat and cold
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree/preferably an advanced degree in education, physical education, or a related field
- Physical Education teaching experience with Elementary and/or Early Childhood students
- A compelling vision for what a forward thinking early childhood experience looks like in independent schools
- CPR and First Aid Certification
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