Qualifications:
Professional Educator License (PEL) with Endorsement in Physical Education and Health Education
Grade Level: Elementary District
Examples of Duties:
- Instruct and demonstrate the principles, methods and techniques of regulating the movement of body, hands, and feet to achieve maximum proficiency in the related sport activity.
- Instruct, explain and enforce health and safety rules and regulations.
- Develop and implement physical conditioning programs.
- May perform a variety of demonstration teaching, and sport activity methods and techniques demonstrations for physical education.
- Selects and requests equipment and instructional aids, maintains required inventory records.
- Evaluates each student's growth in physical skills, knowledge, and participation.
- Establishes and maintains standards of pupil behavior needed to provide an orderly, productive environment in the physical education areas.
- Maintains control of storage and use of school-owned property.
- Provides appropriate safety instruction and makes safety checks on equipment and field areas to ensure the overall safety of pupils.
- Provides individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each pupil, to the extent feasible.
- Analyzes, demonstrates, and explains basic skills, knowledge, and strategies of physical fitness.
- Works collaboratively with administrators and other physical education teachers in planning a balanced physical education program.
- Instructs pupils in citizenship and basic subject matter specified in state law, Board of Education policy, and administrative regulations and procedures of the school district.
- Follows the adopted curriculum of the school district.
- Teaches knowledge and skills in physical fitness, health education, rhythms and dance, and individual, dual and team sports utilizing courses of study adopted by the Board of Education.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Principles, theories, methods, techniques, and strategies pertaining to teaching and instruction of K-8 level pupils.
- Academic, social, and behavioral characteristics of K-8 level pupils.
- Educational curriculum and instructional goals and objectives, and educational trends and research findings pertaining to K-8 physical education and 5th-8th health programming.
- Behavior management and behavior shaping strategies, techniques and methods, and conflict resolution procedures.
Salary andEvaluation: Per Collective Bargaining Agreement