Elementary School Classroom Teacher

Position Responsibilities **Elementary School Educator Responsibilities** - Foster a sense of student belonging by cultivating joy and purpose throughout the Elementary School. - Cultivate a caring and culturally responsive learning community in the classroom, taking into account the physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of students. - Utilize the principles of Responsive Classroom to build a community where students feel valued, respected, and motivated to succeed. - Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world issues, and a culturally responsive curriculum. - Design and implement engaging learning experiences that are collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated. - Employ high-impact instructional practices based on current pedagogical approaches to teach the curriculum. - Design and deliver engaging, differentiated lessons that align with curriculum standards and meet the academic and social-emotional needs of all students. - Regularly assess student progress through formative assessments and other data-driven tools. - Accurately and regularly assess student progress through formative and summative standards-based approaches. - Continuously monitor student learning and make appropriate modifications of goals and strategies to meet students’ needs. - Group students flexibly based on their individual needs, abilities, and assets, using data to inform grouping decisions. - Design quality formative, summative, and self-guided assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicate their growth and achievement. - Integrate technology in innovative ways in daily instruction to enhance learning. - Respond to learners’ diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions. - Demonstrate experience with current best pedagogical practices, teaching materials, and instructional strategies. - Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.). - Work closely with team members, PLC teams, and school administration to develop cohesive curriculum materials and establish common instructional goals and assessments. - Engage in team planning, curriculum review, budgeting, and other school-required activities as needed. - Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback with one another, and engages in professional learning and reflection. - Actively engage in professional learning and growth through regular observation and feedback cycles with Professional Learning Community Coaches and Principals. - Experience with or interest in co-teaching in a flexible learning environment. - Engage in co-teaching practices with other members of the PLC and utilize learning community spaces with intention and flexibility. - Demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary teaching and learning. - Strive for continuous self-improvement as a lifelong learner. - Model the Core Values in your interactions with all members of the school community. - Cooperate with and participate in the planning and evaluation of the school program as needed. - Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.). Position Requirements & Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field - Master’s Degree in relevant field preferred - Teaching license or a degree in education - At least two years of full time teaching experience preferred - Standards-based curriculum experience preferred - Experience teaching multilingual learners in general classroom settings preferred - Excellent verbal and written English language skills - Confident technology skills for teaching and administrative tasks Working Requirements - Sponsoring and/or coaching after school activities are part of the responsibility of the professional educator. Therefore, faculty shall be available to coach and/or sponsor an athletic team or other extra curricular activity. Each faculty member is expected to do a minimum of one category 1 activity or sport per year. - Mandatory attendance of school orientation and participation in a minimum of four evening and/or weekend school activities each year, as assigned (including "Back-to-School Night"). - Attend Responsive Classroom professional learning (virtual), specified by the school, in the months prior to the official start of employment. - Attend Illustrative Math professional learning (virtual), specified by the school, in the months prior to the official start of employment.