• Job Description

  Req#: 1329
  Position Type:
  Elementary School Teaching/ Primary - Grades 1, 2, 3
  
  
  Date Posted:
  7/18/2025
  
  
  Location:
  Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
  
  
  Date Available:
  08/11/2025
  
  
  Closing Date:
  when position is filled
  
  
  Valparaiso Community Schools
  Valparaiso IN 46385
  
  
  TITLE: 2nd Grade Teacher – Thomas Jefferson Elementary
  
  QUALIFICATIONS:
  1. Bachelor's Degree
  2. Indiana Teachers’ License
  3. Interest in sponsoring/coaching extracurricular activities preferred
  4. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable
  
  REPORTS TO: Building Principal
  
  JOB GOAL: To create a flexible elementary grade program and a class environment favorable to learning and personal growth; to establish effective rapport with pupils; to motivate pupils to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for upper elementary grade education, in accordance with each pupil’s ability; to establish good relationships with parents and with other staff members.
  
  PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
  
  1. Teachers reading, language arts, social studies, mathematics, science, and health to pupils in a classroom, utilizing course of study adopted by the Board of Education, and other appropriate learning activities.
  
  2. Instructs pupils in citizenship and basic subject matter specified in state law and administrative regulations and procedures of the school district.
  
  3. Develops lesson plans and instructional materials and provides individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each pupil.
  
  4. Translates lesson plans into learning experiences so as to best utilize the available time for instruction.
  
  5. Establishes and maintains standards of pupil behavior needed to achieve a functional learning atmosphere in the classroom.
  
  6. Evaluates pupils’ academic and social growth, keeps appropriate records, and prepares progress reports.
  
  7. Communicates with parents through conferences and other means to discuss pupil’s progress and interpret the school program.
  
  8. Identifies pupil needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping pupils solve health, attitude, and learning problems.
  
  9. Creates an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive displays, bulletin boards, and interest centers.
  10. Maintains professional competence through inservice education activities provided by the district and self-selected professional growth activities.
  
  11. Selects and requisitions books and instructional aids; maintains required inventory records.
  
  12. Supervises pupils in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned working day.
  
  13. Administers group standardized tests in accordance with district testing program.
  
  14. Participates in curriculum development programs as required.
  
  15. Participates in faculty committees and the sponsorship of pupil activities.
  
  16. Serves as a role model for students.
  
  

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  Through a broad-based curriculum, special programs, and extracurricular activities, the Valparaiso Community Schools has earned the reputation for excellence in all areas of learning. This tradition of excellence is based on the best cooperative effort...

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