Position Description Duties & Responsibilities
The PPOS PE Advisor builds healthy, confident students through fitness programming that focuses on collaboration, skill-building and overall well-being. The PE teacher leads from a strengths-based perspective, encourages students to learn from failure, work on a team, and take risks. This role includes working on character development in addition to physical health.
Core Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Provide high quality physical education instruction
- Use materials and curriculum provided by the school to appropriately instruct students at all grade levels K-8 in physical education
- Plan and prepare lessons to include character building and school value alignment
- Serving the needs of all students
- Partner with the Exceptional Student Services Advisor to differentiate and modify curriculum to meet the needs of all students, especially students on learning plans. Ensure that all accommodations are provided to students on plans.
- Partner with classroom advisors on best practices for managing student behavior
- Communicate directly and with care to advisors, administrators, students and families
- Copy classroom advisors and administrators on all email communication with families
- Be professional in communication: honest, thoughtful and kind
- Stay curious and open to new ideas
- Share all pertinent information with classroom advisors, including necessary reflection on the class or individual student participation
- Record grades for progress reports
- Use Restorative Practices language with students, staff and families
Qualifications
- Previous experience in teaching elementary school required
- Previous experience in teaching PE preferred
- Strong time management skills required
- Willingness to learn, listen and reflect is a must
- Strong support for our school’s mission and vision
Professionalism
- Promotes and maintains a positive and effective school climate by ensuring that all, interactions with staff, students, parents, and the public at large are prompt, efficient,
helpful and friendly. - Seeks out and participates in educational and professional development.
- Recognizes problems and impediments and reports them promptly with options for solutions to the School Director; promotes and assists with constructive resolutions.
- Reflect critically upon job performance; identify areas for further professional development as part of a professional development plan that is linked to advisory work, school goals.
- Listen thoughtfully to other viewpoints and respond constructively to suggestions and criticisms.
- Use feedback to update professional goals.
- Fulfill all outlined and related functions professionally, timely, and thoroughly.
Please contact Emily Murphy at emurphy@ppos.co with a resume and letter of intent if interested in applying.