The posting
Location: Johnston Middle School
Subject: Special Education
Anticipated Dates: January 4 - March 11, 2027
Daily substitute rate: $165 per day; increasing to $185 on 11th consecutive day, $235 on 21st consecutive day
$500 incentive to teacher substitutes that work 50 or more days in a semester.
Qualifications, Certification, and Experience:
- Punctuality and attendance - - regularly begins and ends tasks on time
- Demonstrates positive interpersonal relationships and works cooperatively with students,
- parents and staff
- Project a positive image as an educator in the school and in the community- Promotes a positive image of the Johnston Schools
- Respects differing points of view
- Demonstrates an understanding and acceptance of diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, special needs and religious groups
- Uses discretion in handling confidential information and situations
- Actively supports expectations of student behaviour outside of the classroom during the school day
- The teacher demonstrates a positive attitude and manages stress in a constructive manner
- The teacher uses humor when appropriate
Performance Responsibilities:
Personal Performance Criteria
- Works well with others, maintaining positive and effective communication with school personnel and students
- Contributes to creating a positive work environment
- Demonstrates integrity and respects confidentiality
- Arrives on time and works consistently until the end of his/her scheduled day
- Works independently and with confidence
- Demonstrates ability to grasp and adjust to new and changing situations
- Demonstrates initiative and ability to work without close supervision
Professional Performance Criteria
Instructional Process
- Teaching to local curriculum standards
- Curriculum is presented from whole to part with an emphasis on what students should know and be able to do
- Communicates learning goals to students and parents
- Incorporates, on a regular basis, activities for students which require applications of learning
- Creates a classroom environment that promotes learning
- Establishes fair and appropriate classroom rules
- Corrects inappropriate behaviour in an appropriate and timely manner
- Reinforces positive behaviours
- Consistent in expectations concerning student behaviours
- Establishes and maintains rapport with students
- Demonstrates appropriate instructional preparation
- Uses knowledge of students to design educational experiences
- Lessons align with the district standards and assessments
- Designs lessons that are appropriate to age level and student interest
- Lesson design is logical and provides for a clearly understood flow of learning
- Designs educational experiences that utilize district provided technologies
- Uses effective instructional techniques
- Uses instructional time effectively
- Both group and individual instruction are used on a regular basis with limited use of large group lecture
- Employs a variety of instructional techniques and strategies including multi-sensory approaches, appropriate questioning and modelling, role playing, self-teaching and activity-based learning
- Utilizes a variety of instructional resources outside of the textbook
- Modifies lesson plans and instructional techniques as required by student learning styles
- Instructional techniques provide all students the opportunity to learn
- Instruction is free of cultural, religious, ethnic or gender bias
- Responds in a positive and constructive manner to student questions
- Provides students with opportunities for success
- Models and promotes honesty, respect for people and property, responsibility for personal and group actions, personal integrity and the value of hard work
- Uses effective assessment strategies
- Assessments directly relate to core curricular concepts and are in integral part of teaching and learning
- Assessment of student progress includes both traditional and alternative assessment measures
- Assessment is interwoven with learning and occurs on an ongoing basis. Assessment is not solely an end product
- Maintains a professional appearance appropriate to job responsibilities
Terms of Employment: Substitutes are called and used on an “as needed basis” with no guarantee of hours or days.
