3rd grade teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for 3rd grade teacher in details. A complete job description concludes 3rd grade teacher key duties/responsibilities, 3rd 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 3rd grade teacher duties:

1. Use the state standards to create rigorous, objective-driven, arts-infused lessons aligned with curriculum maps.
2. Identify in each lesson what thinking skills will be explicitly taught and practiced; what physical, social, or content skills students will be able to do and how students will know if they can do it.
3. Differentiate for individual students based on their unique learning needs so all students are appropriately engaged and challenged.
4. Ensure students are engaged through activities and technology that accommodate various learning styles, personality styles, and the need for physical movement.
5. Explicitly introduce learning objectives to activate students’ prior knowledge as it relates to the objectives, and conclude the lesson by revisiting the learning objective and having students apply it in context.
6. Present academic content through a variety of instructional strategies to reach all learners.
7. Provide many and varied opportunities for students to achieve mastery while working to promote achievement by all students without exception.
8. Develop standards-aligned, measurable, ambitious big goals that will increase student opportunities for achievement; assess and track performance against these goals.
9. Measure student achievement of, and progress toward, the learning objectives and big goals with formative and summative assessment tools.
10. Provide ongoing and timely feedback to students on their progress towards meeting big goals by frequently checking for understanding and listening.
11. Use data to reflect on effectiveness of lessons and student achievement progress in order to improve instruction and personal practice.
12. Use data to update each student’s Individual Learning Plan.
13. Create a focused environment of fairness and respect that encourages students to take risks and strive to reach goals.
14. Communicate and enforce high expectations and standards for behavior and academic performance, aligned with the LHA School Culture Guide and Responsive Classroom, to create a strong culture of achievement and respect.
15. Establish, model, practice, and reinforce age-appropriate rules and logical consequences; create and consistently use individual behavioral management plans, as needed.
16. Implement classroom procedures, systems, and routines that provide structure for students and maximize instructional time.
17. Communicate respectfully and thoughtfully with parent/guardians remaining sensitive to different families’ cultures, values and needs.
18. Initiate and maintain timely communication with all parents/guardians (through daily/weekly folders, notes home, weekly newsletters, phone calls, in-person meetings, conferences, report cards) concerning student progress and to provide a clear picture of the curriculum and high expectations.
19. Work collaboratively with parents/guardians, families, and other members of the community to involve them in academic activities and to support the success of a diverse student population and to bring in volunteers and additional resources.

II. List of 3rd grade teacher qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree required, Masters Degree preferred
2. Minimum of two years teaching experience in an urban public school or charter school setting preferred
3. Required state teaching certification/licensure; Highly Qualified status under No Child Left Behind
4. Proven track record of raising student achievement scores in an urban environment
   Strong desire to work within an innovative, urban educational program
5. Knowledge of or experience with Common Core State Standards or Understanding by Design preferred
6. Ability to use data to inform instruction and decision-making related to student achievement
7. Ability to turn best practices into high quality, goal-driven  results
8. Highly effective writing, oral and interpersonal skills to communicate with a varied audience
9. Data managements tools, organizational tools, computer skills (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook)

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.