Job overview
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Planning and Preparation for Learning:
-Plan lessons and units by following the AISJ curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade level teachers
-Supports in developing curriculum documentation that reflect horizontal and vertical alignment
-Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiated needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars' misconceptions and confusions
-Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning
-Demonstrates transdisciplinary and play-based content knowledge in the areas of language, literacy, math, science, social
studies, social-emotional, and cognitive learning
Classroom Management:
-Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations
-Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and builds strong relationships
-Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year
-Gets all scholars to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy
Delivery of Instruction:
-Promotes scholar-centered learning through highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars
-Promotes inquiry-based and concept-based learning
Professional Responsibilities:
-Designs each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes
-Collaborates with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and look at scholar work
-Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well
-Supports scholars with understanding of their strengths and opportunities for development, action planning, and setting their goals.
-Promotes agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership
-Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding
Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up:
-Frequently checks for understanding, adjusting teaching, re teaching and following-up from the data
-Analyzes and reflects on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs
-Gives scholars a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction
-Has scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance
-Help scholars develop as self-assessors and self-adjusters
Family and Community Outreach:
-Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families' cultures and values
-Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child's ability to reach standards
-Gives parents clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year
-Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates parents on good news
-Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support learning at home
-Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.
Other Responsibilities:
-Engages with community in after-school activities
-Engages with community in open communication
-Supervision duties will be assigned
(1/week) and office hours (2/week)
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