K-9 Fitness Instructor​/Physical Education Teacher

Fitness Instructor

The Fitness Instructor ensures that students receive physical education activities following the Performance Academies Mission to instill lifelong learning and physical well‑being through the sports of soccer and tennis. It is the responsibility of the Fitness Instructor to collaborate with team members, which include but are not limited to: parents, classroom teachers, principal, related service providers, and the Fitness Director to ensure the individual needs of students are met.

• Always supervise students; never leave a child unattended.
• Maintain all required certifications, licensures, background checks, etc. current.
• Maintain high levels of classroom management at all times, including during transitions to and from PE.
• Deliver high quality instruction at all times.
• Follow the “coaching” model of PE instruction; focuses on tennis, soccer, martial arts or specifically related subjects.
• Maintain visible charts, graphs and other forms of documentation of student progress in the PE room; regularly update progress visually in the room.
• Keep accurate student assessment data of each and every student.
• Turn in lesson plans on school template to Principal, Superintendent, Fitness Director, or Assistant Principal as required.
• Choose only educationally related field trips, films, videos, or DVD’s for students and use them sparingly only as a supplement to a specific lesson.
• Prepare students to compete in Performance Academies tournaments.

• Start and end all fitness classes or other activities in a timely manner aligned with the school’s schedule.
• Keep the fitness room free of chaos; maintain high standards of cleanliness, organization, and safety, and eliminate clutter.
• Be mindful of students with disabilities; properly implement goals and objectives for all students with active IEPs, BIPs, or 504 Plans when appropriate or needed.
• Work closely with Intervention staff to ensure consistency of academic and/or behavioral service delivery for students with disabilities.
• Participate and help organize fitness competitions among schools.
• Maintain appropriate and accurate inventory at all times of all fitness equipment, materials and resources.
• Assist with bus duty and lunch duty as required by Principal or Assistant Principal.
• Students must not leave the fitness classroom for restroom breaks or other reasons without being supervised.
• Stay abreast of latest requirements in education and special education to the best of your ability.
• Attend all required staff in‑services or professional development days.
• Turn in grades and interim reports in a timely manner.
• Manage your classroom; do not give power away by sending students to the office for minor disruptions.
• Follow the Student Code of Conduct at all times as it relates to discipline.
• Implement the school’s positive behavior systems in your classroom.
• Clearly post the classroom rules in your classroom.
• Encourage cleanliness and good hand washing behavior of students and ensure that students wear adequate foot covering at all times.
• Report any change of address/status immediately to the HR office so that all mail, correspondence, pay stubs, W‑2s, etc. can be mailed to your proper address.
• Report any obvious communicable disease or sickness to your supervisor.
• Refrain from driving students in your personal vehicle at all times.
• Ensure that all appropriate field‑trip/tournament permission forms are signed, dated, turned into the office with appropriate written consent from parents for every child attending field trip.
• Ensure that parents who volunteer at the school have a clearly assigned purpose for volunteering, are assigned a day and time, and have a specific job; they may not wander freely about the school.
• Turn in monthly column for the school newsletter.
• All correspondence to parents, students, in the school newsletter, to staff, etc. must be grammatically correct and free of spelling or punctuation errors.
• Any and all contacts from news media must be immediately referred to Principal and Superintendent; never conduct an interview on your own.
• Immediately report any and all cases of suspected child abuse or neglect…