POSITION DEFINITION:
The Rowland Unified School District is seeking energetic, creative and visionary educators to teach students with a wide-range of academic talents and abilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Creates an invigorating learning environment for a group of students with widely diverse talents, readiness levels and interests.
· Provides multiple avenues to what is learned, how students make sense of ideas, and how students demonstrate what they know.
· Diagnoses and teaches elementary school students with various degrees of academic, social, and motor skills.
· Differentiates the curriculum for gifted students to ensure appropriate mental challenges for students with high intellectual abilities.
· Prepares course objectives and outlines for course of study following curriculum guidelines or requirements of state and school for gifted, educationally disadvantaged, limited English speaking students and students of diverse backgrounds.
· Lectures, demonstrates, and uses audiovisual teaching aids to present subject matter to students.
· Prepares various assessment techniques, including multiple measures to determine students achievement and progress.
· Evaluates and selects books, instructional aids and supplies; evaluates and develops the use of multimedia instructional materials suitable for various learning styles or modalities of regular, gifted and underachieving students.
· Establishes a learning environment that promotes a balance between whole group, small group and individual activities, between independence and cooperation, between teacher choice and student choice.
· Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior to achieve a functional learning atmosphere in the classroom.
· Supervises students in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned workday.
· Performs basic attendance duties and record keeping services as needed.
· Counsels students when academic, social and/or adjustment problems arise.
· Communicates with parents and conducts parent conferences to discuss individual student's progress and interpret the school program.
· Participates on a regular basis in in-service at both school and District levels to maintain professional competence.