Position Type:
Elementary School Teaching/Physical Education

Date Posted:
2/26/2021

Location:
Prairie Jr. High

District:
Alsip, Hazelgreen & Oak Lawn School District 126 - website
Qualifications

• ?Endorsement in Physical Education
• Professional Education License (PEL)
  
  Preferred
  Bilingual in Spanish or Arabic
  
  Duties and Responsibilities


• Teaches knowledge and skills in physical fitness, health education, rhythms and dance, and individual, dual, or team sports, utilizing course of study adopted by the Board of Education


• Demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and skill in the appropriate unit of instruction taught for each grade level, using a variety of instructional technique


• Exhibit professional judgment and responsibility for student supervision and instruction at all times


• Works cooperatively with other physical education teachers in planning a balanced physical education program


• Analyzes, demonstrates, and explains basic skills, knowledge's, and strategies of formal sports, games rhythms, and fundamentals of body movement


• Provides individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each pupil, to the extent feasible


• Provides appropriate safety instruction and makes safety checks on equipment and field areas to insure the over-all safety of pupil


• Maintains control of storage and use of school-owned property


• Establishes and maintains standards of pupil behavior needed to provide an orderly, productive environment in the physical education areas


• Evaluates each pupil's growth in physical skills, knowledge, and contribution in team sports


• Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district, and/or in self-selected professional growth activities


• Participates cooperatively with the appropriate administrator to develop the method by which he/she will be evaluated in conformance with district guidelines


• Selects and requisitions uniforms, equipment, and instructional aids; maintains required inventory records


• Establish and maintain open lines of communication with students, parents, and colleagues to foster a productive physical education program


• Identifies pupil needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in helping pupils solve health, attitude, and learning problems


• Participates in curriculum and other developmental programs


• Participates in faculty committees and the sponsorship of student activities


• Performs other duties as may, from time to time be assigned by the supervisor