Fort Leavenworth USD 207 is currently accepting applications for a secondary ELA teacher (grades 8 and 9) for the 2024-2025 School Year. Interested candidates are asked to complete an application (via the USD 207 District Website Career and Employment Tab). https://fortleavenworth.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx 
 

To be eligible for consideration, qualified candidates must currently hold a valid Kansas teaching license or be reasonably assured of holding a Kansas teaching license with the appropriate subject area endorsement prior to starting the job.

 

Summary of Essential Job Duties (Professional Responsibilities, not an exhaustive list)

1. Participate in professional growth activities, such as workshops, organizations, and/or graduate school.
2. Perform duties and tasks, both assigned and voluntary.
3. Recognize an obligation to understand and comply with administrative policies and procedures.
4. Use appropriate channels of communication for problem-solving.
5. Complete reports and records with punctuality and accuracy.
6. Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, parents, and co-workers.
7. Accept constructive criticism as a possible means of self-improvement.
8. Accept share of overall responsibilities.
9. Maintain confidentiality in areas of professional responsibility.

 

Summary of Required Professional Competencies (not an exhaustive list)

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the subject matter.
2. Diagnose the learning needs of students and specify objectives.
3. Use various techniques and materials relevant to the student's needs, abilities, and specified objectives.
4. Demonstrate ability to evaluate pupil progress.
5. Diagnose individual needs and efforts and adapt instruction and curriculum accordingly.
6. Communicate clearly and effectively with students.
7. Demonstrate the ability to organize and manage a classroom.
8. Apply appropriate discipline techniques by dealing fairly, firmly, and consistently with students

Physical Demands:  The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

1. Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time
2. Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
3. Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone
4. Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
5. Physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
6. Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach overhead

Ft Leavenworth USD 207 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, or promoting on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status under local, state or federal law.