Martin County Schools currentl has an opening for an AIG Teacher to serve students throughout the district.  (Start Date:  January 2025.)  See the job description below for more information.

GRADE:  State Salary Scale

FLSA:  Exempt

REPORTS TO:  Chief Officer of Academics and Student Affairs

SUPERVISES:  Teacher Assistant(s) (if applicable)

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:  10 months

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Bachelor’s degree from an approved education program in subject area.
• North Carolina teacher licensure with certification in Gifted Education.

NATURE OF WORK:  Under general or occasional supervision, performs a variety of tasks to provide appropriate direct services for Academically Gifted students. This position includes record keeping assistance related to the district’s plan for Academically Gifted. The AIG Teacher attends staff development to maintain a rigorous curriculum. They serve as a direct link of communication with administrators, staff, parents and the community. Employee is also responsible for direct services to Academically Gifted students and collaborating with school staff members to foster the potential of other high performing students. Work requires the use of technology along with the most current teaching practices available.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students, particularly when student is participating in an inclusive activity.
• Ability to motivate students and to maintain order and discipline in a classroom.
• Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments.
• Ability to create and follow rigorous lesson plans that correlate with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
• Ability to develop curriculum appropriate for gifted students.
• Knowledge of testing and interpretation of educational data.
• Knowledge of current literature and trends in gifted education.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. This list is meant to be representative, not exhaustive. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is required to follow all board policies and procedures and to comply with the instructions and/or directives from his/her supervisor(s).

1. Provides direct services to eligible students.
2. Assists in record keeping related to district’s plan for Academically Gifted students; may include identification, testing, placement, and completion of annual reviews.
3. Helps regular classroom teachers develop instructional plans and activities for gifted students in their rooms.
4. Serves as a resource to the regular classroom teacher.
5. Meets regularly with teams and/or classroom teachers to share materials and ideas and review progress of specific students.
6. Helps coordinate enrichment activities.
7. Helps individual students select appropriate topics for independent investigation and monitors their progress.
8. Conducts individual or small group conferences with students as needed.
9. Makes students aware of opportunities outside of the regular curriculum.
10. Helps disseminate information about the program to parents and the community.
11. Meets with individual parents and parent groups as requested.
12. Works to assure continuity of services through K-12.
13. Assists in the evaluation of the Plan for Academically Gifted.
14. Maintains a record of all services provided to students during the year.
15. Assists in designing and implementing programs to discover and nurture academic potential in under-served populations.
16. Monitors and reviews student performance, providing feedback to parents.
17. Assists in developing curriculum appropriate for gifted education.
18. Sets achievement goals based on sub-group data.
19. Attends workshops and conferences on best practices.
20. Performs other related work as required

PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS:  The major physical and cognitive requirements listed below are applicable to the AIG Teacher job classification within Martin County Schools. Work in this classification is considered light physical work requiring the exertion of up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.

Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for children with special needs, etc.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information (includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.)

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. and the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in variety of technical or professional languages including education terminology.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and statistical theory.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal level of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to communicate via telephone.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works indoors. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal. The work is performed in the school.