
Health/ Physical Wellness Teacher
Job Description
Position: Health / Physical Wellness Teacher
Posting Dates: June 18, 2026 � Until Filled
Reports To: High School Principal
Beginning: August 2026
**Minimum starting salary for all certified teachers is $50,000. Go here to read more about our passion for supporting new teachers.**
Qualifications:
- Valid Michigan teaching certificate required.
- Physical Education/Health (MX or MA and MB) endorsements required.
- Must be able to teach both Health and Physical Wellness.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide instruction to 9th-12th grade students in a variety of courses
- Develop positive relationships with students and parents.
- Exhibit excellent classroom management
- Work as a professional team member in collaboration with the other secondary level teachers and colleagues
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
- Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
- The worker should provide consistent and reliable attendance.