Teacher - Elementary - Center Based Gifted
Job Description
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General Description:
This position is for the 2026-2027 school year.Plans, delivers, and evaluates instruction based upon specific standards and objectives established by CCPS, while organizing, implementing, and supporting modified instructional strategies to meet the needs of gifted students in the Center Based Gifted (CBG) setting. Provides advanced curriculum, enrichment units, instruction in process skills, effective growth experiences, and social-emotional support for students.
Job Description:
- Utilizes knowledge of educational strategies and understanding of the cognitive, social-emotional, and psychomotor to deliver appropriate instruction to gifted learners.
- Uses data to make instructional decisions to promote growth and achievement.
- Assesses student learning on an ongoing basis and alters instruction to meet group/individual needs.
- Uses the curriculum of the district to plan daily instructional activities.
- Maintains order within the classroom setting in accordance with division guidelines regarding student behavior management.
- Employs a variety of instructional techniques, strategies, and media to challenge gifted learners.
- Utilizes and enhances the curriculum of the district to plan daily instructional activities.
- Collaborates with other faculty in planning and delivering instruction to students.
- Attends training in service delivery and curriculum development to support Center Based Gifted education programs.
- Maintains order within the classroom setting in accordance with division guidelines regarding student behavior management.
- Supervises students in non-classroom time (before school, after school, student activities, and fire drills).
- Collaborates with the Gifted Education Support Specialist in the coordination of the CBG program.
- Communicates regularly with parents.
- Ensures compliance with existing applicable federal and state statutes and local policies, regulations and guidelines related to public schools.
- Demonstrates effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrates commitment to improving professional competence.
- Develops and maintains the physical environment of the classroom that is conducive to effective learning within the limits of resources provided by the system.
- Applies knowledge of curriculum and specialized instructional strategies to improve student performance with regard to standard based assessments.
- Prepares for classes assigned and shows evidence of preparation upon request of the immediate supervisor.
- Demonstrates mastery of content area.
- Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities.
- Performs other duties as needed.
Budgetary Responsibility:
N/A
Report Preparation:
N/A
Equipment Operation:
Uses standard office equipment and equipment related to area of education assigned.
Contacts:
Contact with all levels of CCPS personnel, students, parents.
Work Direction/Supervision:
N/A
Decision Making:
Independent decision making is required in regards to student instruction.
Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities:
N/A
Physical Demands:
Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to use a telephone, to enter data into a computer terminal; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear, understand speech and speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly at normal levels indoors and on the telephone. Frequent walking, standing, light lifting up to 25 pounds, and other limited physical activities are required. Occasional travel with students on field trips may be necessary. Daily personal and close contact with children to provide classroom management and learning environment support is required. Regular contact with other staff members and parents is required.
Work Environment:
Duties performed typically in school settings to include: classroom; gym, cafeteria; auditorium; and recreational areas.
Qualifications:
Additional Job Requirements:
- Minimum of 18 years of age.
- Possession of a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution
- An endorsement in Gifted Education is strongly preferred.
- Elementary: Must hold or be eligible to hold a Virginia teaching license with an endorsement in Elementary Education
Applicants considered for employment must successfully complete the following background investigations/tests:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal History Investigation
State Police Criminal History Investigation
Child Protective Services (CPS) Investigation
Tuberculosis Screening/Test
Compensation
$55,046.62 - $83,594.34Hours Per Day
8Days Per Year
200Benefits
Chesterfield County Public Schools offers a wide variety of benefits to employees. Benefit offerings may differ based upon full-time and part-time employee status.
Chesterfield County Public Schools assures Equal Employment Opportunities for employees as required by Federal and State Orders and Laws. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks. This job description is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements. However, administration reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and assign other duties as necessary. It is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position and does not imply an employment contract.