Fitness-ToPFA

Job Title: Fitness Instructor
Classification: Exempt
Reports To: Principal
Organization Unit: Fitness
Approved By: Human Resources
Effective Date: 5/9/2025

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: the parent, classroom teacher(s), principal, related service providers, and Fitness Director to ensure the individual needs of students are met.

• Always supervise students; never leave a child unattended, never allow a child to run errands, use the restroom, go to the office, leave for intervention or speech services unattended or unsupervised by an adult.
• 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 “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 for 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 DVDs for students and use them sparingly only as a supplement to a specific lesson.
• Prepare students to compete in Performance Academies tournaments.

• Start & end all fitness classes or other activities in a timely manner aligned with the schools schedule.
• Keep 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 schools 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, particularly in the classroom or school office; they must have an assigned day and time and a specific job and may not be permitted to wander freely around the school; all visitors must sign in and out at the front office or in classrooms.
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