Elementary School - Homeroom Teacher

We are inviting interested applicants who are good team players, enthusiastic, service-oriented, and professionally competent to join our dedicated team.

REPORTS TO: Elementary School Principal

SUPERVISES: Volunteers as needed

• Identify the needs of students through diagnostic procedures and align instructional objectives to these needs. Plan, prepare, and execute appropriate lessons, utilizing appropriate resource materials and activities

• Maintain student records as required by the school

• Communicate with parents, students, and other professional staff regarding student progress (behavioral and academic)

• Follow the prescribed scope and sequence of curriculum and assessment as scheduled

• Follow school policies, procedures, rules, regulations, and guidelines and the provisions of the contract

• Assess student learning and progress toward learning standards regularly and provide progress reports as required

• Maintain proper discipline in the classroom and on the school premises utilizing teacher created discipline plans in conjunction with a school-wide discipline plan 

• Inform the administration if/when unable to fulfill any duty assigned. Prepare adequate information and materials for a substitute teacher

• Employ a variety of instructional aides, methods, and materials that will promote best practices in order to reach the whole child, as stated in the ICS mission statement

• Impact student learning through mastery of the subject material by utilizing varied teaching techniques to achieve curriculum goals within the framework of the school’s philosophy

• Ensure Biblical Worldview Integration throughout the curriculum

• Complete lesson/unit plans, Atlas, ESO documentation, and PLC expectations within specified time frames

• Plan and lead a student Chapel when called upon

• Supervise extracurricular activities, organizations, and outings as assigned

• Complete the Christian Philosophy of Education in-service program within the first three years of teaching at ICS

• Attend and participate in devotions, teachers’ meetings, evening programs (if involving his or her students or as requested by the administration), and other meetings as assigned

• Carry out supervisory duty as assigned (before school, break, lunch, after school)

• Maintain a classroom in a clean and educationally stimulating environment

• Maintain regular and accurate attendance and grade reports that provide comprehensive information for each student’s learning progress

• Keep students, parents, and the administration informed of students’ progress or deficiencies, and provide sufficient and timely notice to parents when students fail to meet learning standards

• Submit all appropriate reports to the administration, guidance office, and business office as required by school regulations or as requested 

• Work with the administration in implementing all policies, procedures, and directives governing the school's operation

• Complete professional development programs as required by the administration and/or ICS Board

• Maintain teaching credentials as required through sponsoring agencies (state/provincial education department, ACSI, etc.). Acquire and maintain teaching credentials as required by the laws of Singapore, NICS, and/or ICS

• Demonstrate the character qualities of enthusiasm, courtesy, flexibility, integrity, kindness, self-control, perseverance, and punctuality

• Meet everyday stress with emotional stability, objectivity, and optimism

• Develop and maintain rapport with students, parents, and staff by treating others with friendliness, open-mindedness, dignity, and consideration

• Respectfully submit to and demonstrate loyalty to constituted authority

• Maintain a personal appearance that models cleanliness, modesty, good taste, and is in agreement with school policy