• Job Description

  Req#: 16389
  Position Type:
  Substitute
  
  
  Date Posted:
  7/2/2025
  
  
  Location:
  Central Office- 191 South East St.
  
  
  Date Available:
  08/20/2025
  
  
  Closing Date:
  07/16/2025
  
  
  Application Window Opens: July 2, 2025
  Applicant Window Closes: July 16, 2025
  Screening and Selection to be completed by July 23, 2025
  New Substitute Orientation: August 6, 2025
  Non-Benefited
  Position available tentatively from August 20, 2025
  Daily work hours vary by location
  Substitute Special Education Instrucitonal Assistant: $16.81 an hour
  Substitute Instructional Assistant, Pre-K: $16.81 an hour
  Substitute Teacher: $22.73 an hour
  Long-Term Substitute Teacher: $24.16 an hour
  Substitute Special Education Instrucitonal Assistant: Most possess a high school diploma or GED
  Substitute Instructional Assistant, Pre-K: Most possess a high school diploma or GED
  Substitute Teacher: Must possess a minimum of an AA degree or 60 college credit hours from an accredited institution.
  Long-Term Substitute Teacher: Must possess a minimum of an AA degree or 60 college credit hours from an accredited institution.
  Knowledge and use of culturally responsive practices.
  Knowledge of community resources.
  Regular and predictable attendance.
  Capability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
  Ability to speak in an understandable voice with sufficient volume to be heard in normal conversation and on the telephone and in addressing groups.
  Ability to travel to school and other local locations, as well as state meetings, sometimes with little notice.
  Ability to maintain emotional control under stress.
  Ability to spend long hours sitting.
  Ability to reach with hands and arms.
  Sufficient manual dexterity to grasp, handle, manipulate, and/or feel objects and use office technology.
  Sufficient mobility to move about the work area.
  Sufficient vision to read and comprehend printed materials, see distant objects with clarity, and identify and distinguish objects.
  Sufficient hearing to hear and comprehend conversations in person and on the telephone, as well as distinguish sounds up to twenty (20) feet.
  Occasionally climb or balance.
  Occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  Occasionally lift fifteen (15) pounds.
  Possess a Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree from an accredited institution.
  Demonstrated outstanding written and oral communication skills.
  Capable of performing the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
  Possess MSDE issued professional teacher certificate with the appropriate content endorsement.
  Bilingual (Spanish).
  Familiarity with the FCPS policies, goals and programs.
  Application & Hiring Timeline
  • Application Window Opens: July 2, 2025
  • Applicant Window Closes: July 16, 2025
  • Screening and Selection to be completed by July 23, 2025
  • New Substitute Orientation: August 6, 2025
  
  Work Year Calendar and Hours
  • Non-Benefited
  • Position available tentatively from August 20, 2025
  • Daily work hours vary by location
  
  Salary
  • Substitute Special Education Instrucitonal Assistant: $16.81 an hour
  • Substitute Instructional Assistant, Pre-K: $16.81 an hour
  • Substitute Teacher: $22.73 an hour
  • Long-Term Substitute Teacher: $24.16 an hour
  
  Role
  Substitute Teachers and Substitute Instructional Support Staff are responsible for practices and behaviors which demonstrate necessary teaching competencies, effective classroom management, positive personal qualities, and other instructional matters. The role of the substitute is to ensure that all students have equal instructional opportunities and to create a classroom environment in which teaching and learning are challenging, dynamic, and comprehensive. The teaching of the essential curriculum of each teacher’s discipline is grounded in the understanding that the aim of education is personal growth, the development of individual talents, abilities, and values; the acquisition of knowledge; and the pursuit of understanding.
  
  Required Qualifications
  Education/Training/Experience
  • Substitute Special Education Instrucitonal Assistant: Most possess a high school diploma or GED
  • Substitute Instructional Assistant, Pre-K: Most possess a high school diploma or GED
  • Substitute Teacher: Must possess a minimum of an AA degree or 60 college credit hours from an accredited institution.
  • Long-Term Substitute Teacher: Must possess a minimum of an AA degree or 60 college credit hours from an accredited institution.
  
  Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
  • Knowledge and use of culturally responsive practices.
  • Knowledge of community resources.
  • Regular and predictable attendance.
  • Capability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
  
  Physical Requirements
  • Ability to speak in an understandable voice with sufficient volume to be heard in normal conversation and on the telephone and in addressing groups.
  • Ability to travel to school and other local locations, as well as state meetings, sometimes with little notice.
  • Ability to maintain emotional control under stress.
  • Ability to spend long hours sitting.
  • Ability to reach with hands and arms.
  • Sufficient manual dexterity to grasp, handle, manipulate, and/or feel objects and use office technology.
  • Sufficient mobility to move about the work area.
  • Sufficient vision to read and comprehend printed materials, see distant objects with clarity, and identify and distinguish objects.
  • Sufficient hearing to hear and comprehend conversations in person and on the telephone, as well as distinguish sounds up to twenty (20) feet.
  • Occasionally climb or balance.
  • Occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • Occasionally lift fifteen (15) pounds.
  
  Preferred Qualifications
  Education/Training/Experience
  • Possess a Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree from an accredited institution.
  • Demonstrated outstanding written and oral communication skills.
  • Capable of performing the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
  
  Certification/License
  • Possess MSDE issued professional teacher certificate with the appropriate content endorsement.
  
  Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
  • Bilingual (Spanish).
  • Familiarity with the FCPS policies, goals and programs.
  
  Work Environment
  Moderate noise (examples: classroom/office environment with computers, printers, and telephones; regular conversations within classrooms/offices, cubicles, hallways, and conference rooms; meetings one-on-one, in small groups, and large settings, etc.).
  
  FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
  
  THIS JOB DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN WRITTEN TO INDICATE THE GENERAL NATURE AND LEVEL OF WORK PERFORMED BY AN EMPLOYEE HOLDING THIS POSITION. IT IS NOT WRITTEN TO INCLUDE OR BE INTERPRETED TO INCLUDE A COMPREHENSIVE INVENTORY OF ALL DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED OF THE EMPLOYEE. NOTHING IN THIS DESCRIPTION RESTRICTS MANAGEMENT’S RIGHT TO ASSIGN OR REASSIGN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OR ADD REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AT ANY TIME.
  
  
  

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