Description | osition Title: Teacher Grades 3-5
Job ID#: 1737
Assignment: Intermediate School
Reports to: Building Principal
Date Available: 2024-2025 School Year
Contract: 186 days
Crete Public Schools is seeking qualified applicants for the position of a 3-5 teacher for the 2024-2025 school year. Benefits include paid health insurance, long term disability insurance, and personal and sick leave. This position is considered open until filled.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Nebraska Teaching Certificate with appropriate endorsement
- Satisfactory completion of criminal background check
Required Job Tasks:
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible.
- Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ varying needs and interests.
- Instruct through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations in one or more subjects, such as English, mathematics, or social studies.
- Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments in order to evaluate students' progress.
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Assign lessons and correct homework.
- Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
- Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, counselors, and administrators in order to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
- Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of the State and the school district.
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
- Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems, or special academic interests.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
- Prepare for assigned classes and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.
- Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.
- Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- Perform administrative duties such as assisting in school libraries, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
- Administer standardized ability and achievement tests and interpret results to determine student strengths and areas of need.
- Organize and supervise games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, and social development.
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
- Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
Essential Functions:
- The essential functions of each employee’s position include:
(1) regular, dependable in-person attendance on the job;
(2) the ability to perform the identified tasks and to possess and utilize the identified knowledge, skills,
and abilities and to perform the identified work activities; and
(3) the ability to perform the physical requirements of their specific job description.
Other Responsibilities:
- Perform other tasks or duties as assigned by the Superintendent or Principal.
Working Conditions:
- Environment: Inside and Outside
- Mental Demands: Ability to work under pressure and to meet timelines
- The ability to perform the following identified physical requirements:
Physical Requirements
E = Essential
NE = Non-Essential
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Occasional - up to 33% of time
NE
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Occasional - up to 33% of time, absolutely essential to the job
E
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Frequent - between 34%-66% of time
E
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Continuous - over 66% of time
E
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Stamina
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Sitting
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X
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Walking
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X
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Standing
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X
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Sprinting/Running
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X
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Flexibility
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Bending or twisting at the neck more than the average person
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X
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Bending or twisting at the trunk more than the average person
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X
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Squatting/Stooping/Kneeling
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X
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Reaching above the head
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X
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Reaching forward
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X
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Repeating the same hand, arm or finger motion many times (For
example: typing, data entry, etc.)
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X
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Activities
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Climbing (on ladders, into large trucks/vehicles, etc.)
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X
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Hand/grip strength
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X
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Driving on the job
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X
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Typing non-stop
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X
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Use of Arms and Hands
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Manual dexterity (using a wrench or screwing a lid on a jar)
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X
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Finger dexterity (typing or putting a nut on a bolt)
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X
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Lifting Requirements
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Lifting up to 10 pounds (Mark all that apply)
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Floor to waist
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X
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Waist to shoulder
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X
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Shoulder to overhead
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X
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Lifting 11 to 25 pounds (Mark all that apply)
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Floor to waist
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X
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Waist to shoulder
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X
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Lifting 26 to 50 pounds (Mark all that apply)
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Floor to waist
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X
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Waist to shoulder
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X
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Pushing/Pulling
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25 to 50 pounds
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X
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51 to 75 pounds
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X
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Carrying
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10 to 25 pounds
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X
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25 to 50 pounds
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X
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