Grade 2 Teacher - 2023-2024 School Year

Performs difficult professional work providing a broad range of teaching services or specific learning program, assisting students to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed as a foundation for future learning in accordance with each student's ability, using a variety of teaching and learning methods at various levels to a targeted audience, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work is performed under the limited supervision of the Principal.

STANDARD I: Teachers Demonstrate Leadership

The Teacher:

• Leads the teaching profession by striving to improve the profession.
• Affecting student learning.
• Leads in the classroom by taking responsibility for all students’ learning.
• Advocates for schools and students by promoting positive change in policies and practices
• Professional Conduct
• Demonstrates leadership in the school by working collaboratively with all school personnel
• Demonstrates high ethical standards by upholding the Code of Ethics and Standards for
• To create a professional learning community.

STANDARD II: Teachers Establish a Respectful Environment for a Diverse Population of Students

The Teacher:

• Of diverse cultures.
• Caring adults by encouraging a climate that is inviting, respectful, supportive, inclusive, and
• Community.
• Works collaboratively with the families and significant adults in the lives of their students by
• Appreciating differences and valuing contributions.
• Treats students as individuals by maintaining high expectations for all students; and by
• Embraces diversity in the school community and in the world by demonstrating knowledge
• Flexible.
• Provides an environment in which each child has a positive, nurturing relationship with
• Improving communication and collaboration between the school and the home and
• Adapts teaching for the benefit of students with special needs by collaborating with
• Specialists.

STANDARD III: Teachers Know the Content They Teach

The Teacher:

• Deliberately, strategically, and broadly.
• Understanding to the classroom.
• Knows the content appropriate to teaching specialty by bringing a richness and depth of
• Recognizes the interconnectedness of content areas/discipline by knowing the links and
• Aligns instruction with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
• Vertical alignment of grade or subject taught.
• Makes instruction relevant to students by incorporating 21st century life skills into teaching

STANDARD IV: Teachers Facilitate Learning for Their Students

The Teacher:

• Helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills by encouraging students
• Effective in meeting the needs of students.
• Uses a variety of instructional methods by choosing methods and techniques that are most
• Physical, social, and emotional development of students by knowing how students think and learn.
• Plans instruction appropriate for students by collaborating with colleagues and using a
• Technology to maximize student learning.
• Variety of data sources for planning.
• Knows the ways in which learning takes place and the appropriate levels of intellectual,
• Integrates and utilizes technology in instruction by knowing when and how to use

to ask questions, think creatively, and draw conclusions.

• Helps students work in teams and develop leadership qualities by teaching the importance
• Of cooperation and collaboration.
• Uses a variety of methods to assess what each student has learned by using multiple
• Communicates effectively in ways that are clearly understood by students.
• Indicators to evaluate student progress.

STANDARD V: Teachers Reflect on Their Practice

The Teacher:

• Links professional growth to professional goals by participating in continued, high quality
• Constant.
• Functions effectively in a complex, dynamic environment by understanding that change is
• Professional development that reflects a global view of educational practices.
• Analyzes student learning by thinking systematically and critically about student learning.

• Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to give oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including educational and legal terminology.
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, contracts, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, contracts, policies, handbooks, budgets, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and statistical theory.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Physical Requirements: The work regularly requires standing and walking around the classroom and school. It requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations. The work often requires bending, squatting, reaching, with the ability to lift, carry, push or pull light weights and rarely, the lifting of weights above 30 pounds. The work occasionally handles/works with biohazards and/or risks for potential job-related injury, such as those found in a laboratory or shop environment. The work requires activities occasionally involving driving automotive equipment.

• Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.