Job Description
Key Responsibilities & Duties
- Standards-Aligned Instruction: Design and deliver high-quality physical education instruction fully aligned with the California Physical Education Model Content Standards for Kindergarten through Grade 5.
- Instructional Time Mandate: Ensure all elementary schedules strictly comply with California state education frameworks, providing a minimum of 200 minutes of physical education instruction every 10 school days (CA Education Code § 51210).
- Curriculum Development: Progressively build age-appropriate units focusing on movement concepts, body management, locomotor movements, manipulative skills, and rhythmic activities/dance.
- Differentiated Strategies: Utilize a diverse range of instructional methodologies to engage and accommodate students of varying abilities, backgrounds, and learning styles.
- Assessment & Data Analysis: Develop and administer both formative and summative physical education assessments to measure student progress toward standard mastery; utilize assessment data to directly inform and adjust future instruction.
- Classroom & Facility Management: Maintain a safe, structured, and nurturing learning environment across all teaching stations (fields, courts, and indoor facilities); enforce safety protocols and ensure optimal student-to-equipment ratios to maximize participation.
- Collaboration & Communication: Actively collaborate with grade-level teams, cross-curricular faculty, school administration, and parents to support holistic student development and build community connections.
- High Expectations: Model and reinforce high behavioral and academic expectations, cultivating a positive sociological and psychological environment where responsibility, inclusivity, and sportsmanship thrive.
Job Qualifications & Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher learning (degree in Kinesiology, Physical Education, or a related field preferred).
- Credentials: Valid California Single Subject Teaching Credential in Physical Education, or a Multiple Subject Credential with an added authorization in PE, is highly preferred.
- Experience: experience teaching physical education at the elementary school level within an educational framework aligned with California state standards.
- Alignment: Strong commitment to the mission, values, and high academic standards of Fairmont Schools.
- Skills: Strong classroom management, proficiency in implementing school-wide health/fitness benchmarks, and a dynamic ability to engage young learners in physical activity.
Pay: $65,000
WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Primarily an office/classroom position. May require significant degree of intermittent walking, bending, stooping, reaching,and stretching. May require lifting of up to 20 lbs.
E-Verify Participation:
ISP U.S.participatesin E-Verify and will provide the Federal Government with your form I-9 information to confirm that youare authorized towork in the U.S.
ISP Principles
Begin with our children and students. Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore, we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding
and Health & Safety issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.
Treat everyone with care and respect. We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well-being of self and others.
Operate effectively. We focus relentlessly on the things that are most important and will make the most difference. We apply school policies and procedures and embody the shared ideas of our community.
Are financially responsible. We make financial choices carefully based on the needs of the children, students and our schools.
Learn continuously. Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.
ISP Commitment to Safeguarding Principles
ISP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures, including an online due diligence search, references and satisfactory Criminal Background Checks or equivalent covering the previous 10 years’ employment history.
ISP Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
ISP is committed to strengthening our inclusive culture by identifying, hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing teammates regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender expression, age, disability status, neurodivergence, socio-economic background or other demographic characteristics. Candidates who share our vision and principles and are interested in contributing to the success of ISP through this role are strongly encouraged to apply.

