Model Teacher

SOUTHEAST POLK COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Job Description
Title: Model Teacher

Qualifications:
1. Holds a valid Iowa teaching license.
2. Has a minimum of three years of teaching experience.
3. Has worked as a certified employee for a minimum of one year in the Southeast Polk CSD (additional years preferred).
4. Has or can demonstrate a firm grasp of current strategies and initiatives within content areas.
5. Has articulable and formal/informal successful leadership experiences.
6. Has earned graduate hours beyond Bachelor’s Degree (preferred).

Reports to: Building Principal and teaching staff

Job Goal: To assist teachers in overcoming obstacles that impede their learning, performance, and development by providing appropriate models for them as they make changes focused on improved pedagogy.

Performance Responsibilities:
1. Teach full time.
2. Serve as a model of exemplary teaching practice and allow visitors/observers into the classroom.
3. Model the effective use of data to make sound classroom instructional decisions.
4. Model to other teachers how to realize the vision, achieve the mission, and conduct the work of teachers according to the core values of the Southeast Polk CSD.
5. Serve in various roles in work that involves professional learning communities, data teams, collaboration, guided inquiry, and peer review.
6. Within the Professional Development Steering Committee, and using the IPDM model, participate in the collaborative design, planning, conducting, and evaluation of all professional development activities.
7. Participate in instructional rounds annually.
8. Participate in building-wide ad hoc committee work.
9. Serve as a PTA/PTO or other building level parent council as a representative of the teaching staff.
10. Serve as an instructional model for teachers in the awareness or intensive assistance phases of the evaluation process.
11. Serve as the collaborative teacher for student teachers on a regular basis.
12. Establish and demonstrate positive human relations with colleagues, parents, staff, and community.

Terms of Employment:
1. Employed for 200 days.
2. One (1) year length of assignment, renewable.
3. Stipend set by Board of Education.
4. Position paid from Teacher Leadership and Compensation funding stream.

Evaluation: Model Teachers are evaluated once per semester by building administration and a minimum of two assessment surveys will be completed by colleagues with whom the Model Teacher has worked closely. The online Model Teacher Assessment Survey will serve as the evaluation/assessment tool.

Disclaimer:
The statements of this job description are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel in this position. These statements are not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his or her supervision.

It is the policy of the Southeast Polk Community School District not to illegally discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, disability, religion, creed, age (for employment), marital status (for programs), genetic information (for employment), sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status (for programs) in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy please contact, Joseph M. Horton, Associate Superintendent, Affirmative Action Coordinator, Equity Coordinator and Title IX Coordinator, Southeast Polk District Office, 8379 NE University Ave., Pleasant Hill, IA 50327, (515)-967-4294, joseph.horton@southeastpolk.org. Inquiries or grievances may also be directed to the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, Des Moines, IA, 50319-0201, (515) 281-4121; or the U.S. Department of Education, Region VII Office of Civil Rights, 500 West Madison Street, Suite 1475, Chicago IL 60661.