Job Description

Job Summary / Overview:

Position is responsible for creating a classroom environment that fosters, promotes and develops an understanding of the relationship of healthy body function and exercise; that motivates each student to cultivate physical fitness; that discovers and develop talents of students in physical achievement; and that develops strength, skill, agility, poise, and coordination in individual, dual and team physical activities and sports.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Demonstrate motivation and enthusiasm with a genuine passion for teaching all learners.

2. Demonstrate the ability to create a student-centered classroom.

3. Facilitates student's physical, cognitive and social and emotional learning through lessons designed to sequentially develop skills appropriate to their ability and confidence levels.

4. Provides engaging, fun, and effective instruction that helps build a health and wellness foundation for students.

5. Teaches knowledge and skills in physical fitness using the Oregon Core Standards.

6. Implements Oregon Core Standards with rigor, purpose, and planning.

7. Provides maximum participation for all students; differentiates as needed to ensure all students experience success.

8. Analyzes, demonstrates, and explains basic skills, knowledge and strategies of games, rhythms, and fundamentals of body movement.

9. Develops engaging and effective lesson plans and supplementary materials.

10. Provides ongoing formative feedback to students.

11. Provides appropriate safety instruction and makes safety checks on equipment and field areas to ensure the overall safety of students.

12. Evaluates academic and social growth of students and keeps appropriate records to include report cards, attendance records, checklists, and other recordkeeping activities.

13. Communicates with parents, school counselors and administrator on student progress.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in a related field

• A current Oregon teaching license with relevant endorsement (preferred)

• Teaching or coaching experience

Additional Information

Salary: $31,248 to 57,802 DOE.

This position comes with a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Medical/dental/vision insurance fully paid by the employer for the employee
• Employer paid life and disability insurance
• 403b retirement plan
• Flexible spending account
• Employee assistance program
• Generous personal and sick leave
• Professional development

We are a qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Teacher Loan Forgiveness programs.

Evergreen provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, physical or mental disability, military status, or marital or family status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law, regulation, or ordinance. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, firing, transfer, promotion, benefits, and compensation.