Title 1 teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Title 1 teacher in details. A complete job description concludes Title 1 teacher key duties/responsibilities, Title 1 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 Title 1 teacher duties:

1. Work effectively and cooperatively with community, parents, teachers, administrators and support staff.
2. Establish and maintain standards of student behavior needed to provide an orderly, productive and safe environment for learning.
3. Work collaboratively and collegially with a team developing integrated curriculum.
4. Use instructional technology in the delivery of curriculum.
5. Share a commitment to the success of the mission, goals, and objectives of the school.
6. Support and fully participate in a school culture that focuses on student and adult learning.
7. Set high expectations and standards for the achievement of students and own personal performance.
8. Support the school's Title 1 program by offering content and instruction that ensures student achievement.
9. Support a school philosophy that values continuous learning for adults tied into student learning and other school goals.
10. Support the use of multiple sources of data collection to analyze barriers to student achievement and to access, identify and apply to instructional improvement.
11. Support all efforts to provide opportunities for the community to be involved in student and school success.

II. List of Title 1 teacher qualifications

1. Communicate through superior written and oral communications skills.
2. Work on multiple projects and respond to requests and deadlines in an accurate, timely manner.
3. Make sound decisions within the parameters of authority.
4. Be courteous, professional and tactful at all times.
5. Maintain a positive working relationship with faculty, staff, board members, parents, students, authorizer and community.
6. Motivate and create a shared vision within the school community.
7. Be respected as an adult learner and as an individual.
8. Serve as a role model who acknowledges through actions and behaviors the critical value of human relationships in achieving personal and professional goals and organizational purpose.

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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