Master teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Master teacher in details. A complete job description concludes Master teacher key duties/responsibilities, Master teacher job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of Master teacher duties:

1. Plans, facilitates and oversees classroom activities according to developmentally appropriate practice and following the instructional approach utilized by the department
2. Conducts daily classroom activities
3. Prepares appropriate lesson plans with required individualization
4. Conducts screenings and assessments of children within mandated time frames, and uses the results to individualize educational delivery
5. Coordinates curriculum, instructional approach and staff development activities
6. Explains the program curriculum and instructional approach to staff, parents, the community, and Federal, State and local government agencies
7. Directs, trains, mentors, and evaluates paid and volunteer staff assigned to child education centers, including teachers and associate teachers
8. Plans and conducts meetings with staff and parents, including the required number of home visits per year
9. Travels to child education centers county-wide to assist in the development of the curriculum plan and classroom set-up that is conducive to the instructional approach
10. Maintains program records and prepares reports in a clear and concise manner, meeting all requirements and timelines

II. List of Master teacher qualifications

1. Valid Driver’s License
2. Child Development Master Teacher Permit or CTC Verification Letter
3. Infant/Toddler Master Teacher must have 2 years exp as an infant/toddler teacher to meet MQ’s
4. Associate Degree and 24 Early Childhood Education Credit Earned
5. Two years of experience in the classroom
6. Have you completed a Bachelors degree with a major in Early Childhood Education, Child Development or a related field?
7. Have you completed higher than a Bachelors degree with a major in Early Childhood Education, Child Development or a related field?
8. Do you have more than two (2) years direct classroom experience? Please describe in detail.
9. Do you have direct Head Start experience? Please describe in detail.

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.

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