Second grade teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Second grade teacher in details. A complete job description concludes Second grade teacher key duties/responsibilities, Second grade teacher job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of Second grade teacher duties:

1. Sheltered English Immersion Elementary 
2. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, equity, and high expectations for all students with an emphasis on building on the strengths that students bring to the teaching/learning process and closing the achievement gap between subgroups within the school.
3. Model professional behavior that addresses job responsibilities, district policies and procedures, and the expectations of professionals working in a multi-lingual, multi-cultural, and economically diverse community.
4. Build and maintain safe, fair, and respectful learning environments that celebrate the diversity of the student population.
5. Initiate and maintain consistent communication and develop constructive partnerships with families communicating about student progress and ways the families can support the student at home.
6. Initiate and maintain consistent communication and develop constructive partnerships with community members, and agencies, building on their strengths and recognizing them as co-educators.
7. Plan instruction and employ strategies that address the wide range of learning, behavioral, and communication styles of the student population.
8. Demonstrate cultural proficiency and use effective and culturally relevant instructional practices.
9. Integrate technology into the classroom as an instructional tool and for personal productivity.
10. Communicate with the English as a Second Language Teacher or Tutor in the school.
11. Actively participate on the Language Acquisition Team.
12. Have extensive knowledge of the content including, but not limited to, key concepts and facts, relevant research on first and second language acquisition, methods of inquiry, and communication styles specific to the respective discipline(s).
13. Use a variety of assessment tools and strategies to gather data to monitor student mastery of instructional content, and first and second language proficiency to improve instruction, and to assess the comparative performance of subgroups within the classroom.
14. Use a variety of assessment tools and strategies to gather data to monitor student mastery of instructional content, to improve instruction, and to assess the comparative performance of subgroups within the classroom.
15. Reflect on practice in collaboration with administrators and colleagues, monitor personal and professional growth, and pursue professional development in needed areas.

II. List of Second grade teacher qualifications

1. Hold a valid Massachusetts Teaching License in English as a Second Language at the appropriate grade level.
2. Meet all state and federal guidelines in order to be fully licensed and "Highly Qualified" according to NCLB.
3. Is a MELA-O Administrator (QMA).
4. Ability to meet the "Dimensions of Effective Teaching" established by the Boston Public Schools as outlined above.
5. Hold a Bachelors degree.
6. Current authorization to work in the United States - Candidates must have such authorization by their first day of employment.
7. Attend district and state-sponsored professional development opportunities sufficient to stay current with changes in ELL instruction and improvements in ELL teaching strategies.
8. Able to model excellent spoken and written English for students learning English in school.

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.