Job description
Full-time ten (10) month position teaching Bible and discipling Middle School students. A King's Ridge Christian School teacher's primary role is to plan, organize and implement an appropriate instructional program in a secondary classroom that guides and encourages student learning from the perspective of a biblical, Christian worldview.
Essential Functions
The tasks, duties, and responsibilities of this job include, but are not limited to :
Classroom Teaching
- Ensures students feel known, nurtured, loved, and valued as individuals.
- Ensures students believe that you are an advocate committed to their success.
- Requires developmentally appropriate higher-order thinking skills.
- Classroom instruction is organized and well-prepared with a clear objective.
- Develops lesson plans and assessments in accordance with established procedures.
- Creates a learning environment in which students participate and are engaged.
- Establishes and communicates clear objectives for all learning activities to students, colleagues and parents.
- Maintains an orderly classroom environment conducive to learning.
- Accurately assesses each student's level of achievement.
- Demonstrates mastery of subject matter.
- Effectively uses technology to enhance teaching and learning of the subject material.
- Establishes a rapport with students so that they are comfortable interacting with teacher on academic or behavioral matters.
- Sets, communicates, and consistently holds students accountable to developmentally appropriate behavior consistent within a Christian community.
- Grades and returns assignments in a timely fashion.
Administrative
- Ensures parents feel their child is known as an individual.
- Maintains healthy relationship with parents.
- Obtain information for parents when requested, promptly return phone calls and respond to emails.
- Communicates student success.
- Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing with parents.
- Actively participate in school department and parent meetings.
Advisor / Small Group
- Takes leadership over a group of 8-12 students.
- Takes an active interest in the lives of advisees.
- Keeps in close contact with advisees' parents and teachers.
- Takes responsibility for advisees in all aspects of school life - academics, co-curricular activities, socially, emotionally, ethically, spiritually.
- Leads / Facilitates small group discussions on spiritual topics.
- Attends chapel and incorporates chapel topics into group discussions.
Co-Curricular
- Ensures that the organization / club fulfills the purpose of its existence.
- Provides opportunities along with support and guidance for students to take ownership of and lead events / activities.
- Creates an environment in which students are enthusiastic about participating in the organization / club events / activities.
- Participate in extracurricular activities that include social and sporting events, clubs and student organization meetings.
Spiritual
- Is in a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Provides a faith integrated environment.
- Takes responsibility for being a spiritual role model and leader for students and parents.
- Obeys Christ by maintaining a demeanor of Christian ethics and integrity.
- Consistently strives to exhibit Christian behavior in all aspects of one's life.
All offers of employment at King's Ridge Christian School are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check as well as a negative result on a drug screening. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates and on all employees who are promoted, as deemed necessary.
Background checks will include :
- Social Security Verification
- Prior Employment Verification
- Personal and Professional References
- Educational Verification
- Criminal History
The following additional background searches will be required if applicable to the position :