Escondido Union School District -

Under the direction of the Site Principal, the elementary physical education teacher will provide instruction to students in Physical Education Model Content Standards for California Schools utilizing District and/or School adopted curriculum, course outlines, and the California State Frameworks for Physical Education.

Specific responsibilities will include but will not be limited to the following:

• Supports standards-based, common core aligned, high activity instruction; strategies to use common core state standards to increase rigor and depth of knowledge in Physical Education; appropriate and strategic use of technology in Physical Education; engage Students in optimal amounts of Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA); administer the State P.E. tests by focusing on the six critical areas.

• Teaches knowledge and skills in physical fitness, health and recreation education, rhythms and dance, and individual, dual, or team sports to elementary students, utilizing a course of study adopted by the Board of Education.

• Instructs students in citizenship, basic communication skills, and other general elements of the course of study common to all teachers, as specified in state law and administrative regulations and procedures of the School District.

• Works cooperatively with other physical education teachers in planning a balanced physical education program, adapting daily schedules to accommodate weather conditions, and providing time for instruction, exercise, and sports activities

• Analyzes, demonstrates, and explains basic skills, knowledge, and strategies of formal sports, games, rhythms, and fundamentals of body movement.

• Utilize a variety of instructional skills and methods; varying instructional modes and accommodates student needs, interests, learning style, and ability levels; provide individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each student.

• Researches and develops appropriate innovative activities with School District approval by utilizing available resources.

• Supervises students in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned work day. May teach under modular or flexible scheduling plans.

• Maintains a safe classroom environment by the reasonable elimination of hazards and control over use of mechanical and electrical equipment. Ensures that obstacles are removed from classroom walkways for safe movement throughout the classroom.

• Provides appropriate safety instruction and makes safety checks on equipment and field areas to ensure the overall safety of students.

• Reviews and modifies instruction to ensure the well-being of students, taking into account IEP information, 504 information, or specific health and safety information pertaining to students.

• Maintains surveillance over storage and use of such items as school-owned uniforms, equipment, and supplies to prevent loss or abuse.

• Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior needed to provide an orderly, productive environment in the physical education areas. Shows respect for students and their ideas; encourages participation consistent with objectives of the lesson; promotes recognition of others’ rights and ideas; counsels students displaying inappropriate behavior or performance; directs the activities of the class appropriate of learning tasks.

• Maintains discipline and order of students. Provides for safe supervision of large groups of students in a variety of settings (walking on campus, before school, after school, field trips, playground, etc.) and coordinates concerns with site administration.

• Evaluates each student’s growth in physical fitness, and in physical skills and knowledge. Assesses each individual’s contribution to the performance of the team sports.

• Completes and maintains student records. Records and maintains accurate student attendance records. Performs grading of assignments and tests and records results. Completes progress reports and report cards within designated timelines. Completes other paperwork activities as needed and/or directed by administration.

• Works cooperatively with grade-level team members to perform joint planning for instructional activities and use of resources.

• Attends scheduled meetings and conferences. Confers with parents at scheduled conferences. Attends scheduled staff, grade level, and leadership meetings. Participates in curriculum development programs within the school of assignment and/or on a District level. Increases professional competence through participation in continued higher education, district, and self-selected staff development activities.

• On a rotating basis with other staff, the Teacher performs an equitable number of adjunct supervisory duties (including playground duty, before and after school duty, lead in school/district projects, or detention period).

• Communicates with parents and school staff on the individual student’s progress using EUSD digital tools and platforms.

• May plan and coordinate the work of aides, teacher assistants, or other professionals.

• Identifies student needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude, and learning problems; cooperates with other members of the staff in planning co-curricular activities.

• Selects and requisitions uniforms, equipment, instructional aids, and instructional supplies and maintains required inventory records.

• Maintain cooperative, professional attitudes with peers, supervisors, and parents.

• Provides leadership to students in emergency preparedness drills and during actual emergencies, following the site emergency preparedness plan. Supervises and leads students during monthly site disaster drills and an annual “districtwide” disaster drill. For fire and other types of drills, evacuate students from the classroom in a safe and orderly manner to the designated areas on the school grounds. For earthquake drills, provide verbal directions and model the position of “drop, hold, and cover” under a desk or other furniture inside the classroom or other area on campus.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

The Physical Education Teacher walks frequently during class periods and before and after classes to perform the following described activities. At the beginning of each outside class, the Physical Education Teacher walks to escort groups of students across flat and uneven concrete and asphalt surfaces to gain access to outside areas to take attendance, direct or supervise warm-up exercises, and perform skills instruction. After completion of skills instruction, the Physical Education Teacher walks to escort students to designated areas to participate in physical education activities (across flat and uneven dirt, grass, sand, concrete, and asphalt surfaces to gain access to fields, track, courts, and other outside areas; fields, have uneven areas with potholes, gopher holes, and some muddy areas due to daily irrigation or rain; walks across the same to gain access to the track or volleyball areas). The Physical Education Teacher moves a few feet in front of the class to demonstrate some physical education techniques. When students are engaged in physical education activities, the Physical Education Teacher moves about the area to monitor student activities, provide individualized instruction to students, enforce game rules, and officiate games. The Physical Education Teacher is required to move quickly to gain access to an injured or ill student to perform an initial assessment and to provide needed assistance until the arrival of medical personnel. The Physical Education Teacher moves about the locker room with a concrete floor to supervise the activities of students between at the beginning and end of class periods. As needed during the day, the Teacher walks to and from the office.

Depending upon the types of planned lessons within the physical education curriculum modules, the Physical Education Teacher stands in an upright posture (on asphalt, concrete, dirt, grass or sand surfaces) for varying durations of time during the day to perform the following activities: to perform equipment set-ups and take-downs, to take attendance at the beginning of each class, to demonstrate some physical education techniques, to provide instruction and to monitor student activities during physical education activities, to perform supervision in the locker room and other assigned areas, to communicate with school staff and students, etc. There may be extended periods of standing in the designated outside area to supervise students during an evacuation for a disaster drill or an actual emergency.

The Physical Education Teacher typically sits on a minimal basis during the day to perform preparation and paperwork activities (during a 45-minute preparation period) and to attend scheduled meetings and in-services (varying frequency and duration).

The Physical Education Teacher bends at the waist several times during a class period (exact frequency varies with the physical education module) and for up to 5-minute duration to demonstrate several physical education activities to students, to lean over students to provide physical guidance and demonstration of several physical education techniques, to move some physical education equipment to and from a wheeled cart, to perform set-ups and tear-downs of physical education equipment, to pick up balls and other physical education equipment from ground surfaces, etc.

The Physical Education Teacher twists at the waist intermittently and for a brief duration during a class period to demonstrate some physical education activities to students (batting, ball and discus throwing, etc.), to provide physical guidance and demonstration of some physical education techniques to students, to perform set-ups and tear-downs of physical education equipment, etc.

The Physical Education Teacher performs crouching intermittently and for brief duration (up to 5-minute duration) during class periods to demonstrate techniques for several physical education activities (wrestling, weight training, gymnastics, track and field, etc.), to initiate a lift to pick up balls and other physical education equipment from the ground and to perform set-ups and tear-downs of equipment for some physical education classes in areas measuring below 18” high. The Teacher is required to crouch or kneel to model the correct position for students (“drop and hold”) and for safety protection during an earthquake drill or actual earthquake.

On a varying basis (depending upon the physical education module), the Physical Education Teacher performs kneeling to demonstrate techniques for several physical education activities (wrestling, gymnastics, etc.) and to perform set-ups and tear-downs of equipment in areas measuring below 18” high for some physical education classes. The Teacher is required to crouch or kneel to model the correct position for students (“drop and hold”) and for safety protection during an earthquake drill or actual earthquake. The Teacher is required to kneel to maintain certification to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, and to administer first aid in the event of a medical emergency.

On a varying basis (depending upon the physical education module), the Physical Education Teacher lies on the back to demonstrate sit-ups, some weight training activities, and other techniques for some physical education activities.

On a varying basis, the Physical Education Teacher may run to demonstrate techniques for some physical education activities, to move about to officiate during some games, to gain access to an injured student, to intervene during an altercation between students, or to provide assistance in another emergency during a class period.

On a varying basis (depending upon the physical education module), the Physical Education Teacher may jump to demonstrate techniques for some physical education activities (jumping rope, volleyball, basketball, etc.).

Intermittently lifts and handles individual pieces of physical education equipment (weighing up to an estimated total of five pounds). Intermittently lifts and handles bags or boxes of physical education equipment (weighing from a reported five pounds to forty pounds) for transport to and from the designated area used for the physical education module. As equipment is available at each site, perform a demonstration of weightlifting techniques to students (with weight left to the discretion of the Physical Education Teacher).

Pushes and pulls with one arm to open and close building doors on campus. Pushes with the arms and body to use a wheeled cart to move some physical education equipment to designated areas for physical education classes (over flat and uneven dirt, grass, and concrete surfaces). For some physical education modules (wrestling, etc.), pulls with the arms and body and with physical assistance to set up mats inside a room. As scheduled in the lesson plan, pushes with the arms and body to move audio-visual equipment on a wheeled cart for viewing in the classroom or other instructional location. Pushes and/or pulls with the arms to model appropriate warm-up exercises, including push-ups, pull-ups, and upper-body exercises. Pushes and/or pulls with the arms and/or body to provide hand-over-hand guidance and demonstration of physical education techniques to students. Rarely, pushes and/or pulls with the arms and body to separate and physically restrain students engaged in a fight in class or on campus. Rarely, pushes with the arms to perform chest compressions for cardio-pulmonary resuscitation to maintain certification and in the event of a medical emergency.

The Physical Education Teacher reaches forward and laterally (at or below shoulder height) to perform transport of physical education equipment, to perform set-ups and tear-downs of equipment for physical education modules, to handle individual pieces of physical education equipment (bats, rackets, etc.) and supplies, to demonstrate techniques for physical education activities (demonstration of tennis strokes, dance movements, and other techniques) to provide physical assistance when modeling physical education techniques (tennis strokes, dance movements, etc.) and to write information on a chalkboard or whiteboard with the dominant hand and to complete paperwork activities. The Physical Education Teacher reaches above the shoulder to perform needed set-ups and tear-downs of equipment for some physical education modules (nets, poles, etc.), to demonstrate techniques for some physical education activities (volleyball, basketball, etc.), to use signals when serving as a referee during class activities, to write information on a chalkboard or whiteboard with the dominant hand, etc.

On a frequent basis during a class period, performs manual grasping activities with one or both hands. The Physical Education Teacher grasps with one or both hands to transport physical education equipment (in a bag, box, or pushing a wheeled cart) to and from the field, court, or other area (from a reported total of 15 minutes to 40 minutes per day). The Physical Education Teacher grasps with one or both hands to perform set-ups and tear-downs of equipment for physical education modules (time varies with the physical education module). The Physical Education Teacher grasps with one or both hands to use physical education equipment (balls, bats, rackets, etc.) to perform a demonstration of techniques for skills instruction. The Physical Education Teacher grasps with one or both hands to provide “hand-over-hand” assistance to guide students through the physical movements during individualized skills instruction. Rarely, grasps and pulls with the arms to separate or restrain students involved in an altercation during class or on campus.

Uses finger dexterity with the dominant hand to use a writing utensil to take attendance, write on a chalkboard or whiteboard, complete grade records, and perform other paperwork activities.

On a frequent basis during class periods, rotates the neck to perform demonstration of physical education activities and to supervise students engaged in physical education activities.

On a varying basis (depending upon the physical education module), flexes the neck to perform set-ups and tear-downs of physical education equipment in areas below shoulder height, to demonstrate some physical education activities located below shoulder height and to supervise students engaged in some physical education activities located below shoulder height.

On a varying basis (depending upon the physical education module), extends the neck to perform set-ups and tear-downs of physical education equipment in high areas, to demonstrate some physical education activities above head height (volleyball, basketball, etc.) and to supervise student engaged in some physical education activities located above head height.

Ability to maintain work pace appropriate to assigned workload; to complete a normal work day and perform at a consistent pace without unreasonable number or duration of rest periods; to work cooperatively and effectively with other teachers and staff members; to motivate, gain the cooperation of, and relate well to students as an adult role model; to be patient, consistent and caring in approach to students; to be flexible with ability to adapt to changes in routine and duties; to retain awareness of potential hazards in class periods; to observe appropriate precautions and to take necessary action in event of an emergency.

Understanding of learning theory, current curriculum, a wide variety of effective teaching strategies, child growth and development and the social/emotional needs thereof, motivation, retention, and transfer theory, effective lesson planning, discipline, working with parents in effective manner, sheltered instructional strategies for students transitioning from another language to English, learning disabilities and mainstreaming of students with disabilities into the regular classroom, district policies and administrative regulations regarding teaching responsibilities and other areas that affect the organization and delivery of services to students. Knowledge of school site plan and school site emergency preparedness plan. Knowledge of professional responsibilities regarding any requirements for maintaining valid teaching credentials.

Ability to implement all areas listed under “Knowledge” into practice to produce a positive and effective learning environment which addresses the needs of all students, monitors the progress of students, adjusts instructional strategies according to student's needs, and accurately reports student progress. Ability to plan, organize, and deliver instruction. Ability to work as a team member with other staff members and in a cooperative relationship with supervisor(s). Ability to integrate instruction to produce a meaningful curriculum. Ability to perform other teaching-related duties including but not limited to parent conferences, open house, “back to school” night, and staff meetings. Ability to perform adjunct duties equitably in comparison to other staff members, including but not limited to before and after school supervision, attendance at PTA meetings, etc. Ability to provide for student safety under routine and emergency conditions. Ability to engage in professional development provided by the district as well as through individual efforts. Ability to utilize resources effectively. Ability to follow directions accurately. Ability to use EUSD digital tools to enter and monitor student progress and communicate with staff and families.

Primarily works outside to provide physical education instruction on fields, courts, track, and other areas. Works inside to supervise students in the locker room and to complete preparation/paperwork activities. Exposed to seasonable climate and elements, dust and exhaust fumes from vehicles during class periods held outside. As needed, works inside to perform instruction for some physical education activities (fitness, dance, wrestling, and gymnastics). Utilizes verbal and face-to-face contact with coworkers and students. The usual and customary methods of performing the job’s functions require the following physical demands: hearing and speaking to exchange information and make presentations; dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard; having a means of transportation to conduct work; seeing to conduct inspections of data; and occasional lifting of boxes and equipment and bending or reaching for files and equipment. Weight of materials will vary, but generally less than fifty (50) pounds. Generally, the job requires 20% sitting, 40% walking, and 40% standing. May be required to correctly transfer or restrain a child physically if needed. Will work with students who have significant academic and social/emotional needs.

Valid California teaching credential authorizing instruction in physical education with English Learner Authorization

Must pass a pre-employment physical examination and fingerprint clearance following an offer of employment.

Bachelor's degree required

Placement on the certificated salary schedule.

Board Approved: February 4, 2025