Teacher: Pre-Kindergarten

Overview

Reports to:

Principal
Salary:
Teacher Salary Schedule
Duty Days: 187
FLSA Status:
Exempt
Position may be grant-funded and contingent on availability of funds.

Delivers rigorous instruction to students in order to promote intellectual, social, and physical growth; ensures that regardless of socioeconomic factors every child is prepared for accelerated learning to compete in a global economy. Provides standards-based, data-driven, differentiated instruction that engages students. Creates a safe and supportive learning environment to maximize student learning. Provides high quality early childhood instruction in Pre-Kindergarten classroom setting in accordance with TEA Pre-Kindergarten Guidelines.

Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

• Designs clear, well organized, sequential lessons that build a strong foundation for learning; provides opportunities for project-based learning using the pedagogy of the district curriculum and frameworks to provide a collaborative classroom where students are thinking critically, and engaging in interactive lessons throughout the day, creative thinking, and extended interaction among students.
• Creates developmentally appropriate, early childhood lessons that reflect evidence-based best practices.
• Develops lessons to meet the needs of diverse learners by providing differentiated instruction for all learners and adapting methods as needed to stay student centered.
• Communicates clearly and accurately; engages students in a manner that encourages students’ persistence and best efforts.
• Promotes complex, higher-order thinking, engaging classroom experiences and activities that provide opportunities for deeper learning.
• Ensures student understanding by consistency monitoring, giving immediate feedback, and making lesson adjustments as needed in accordance to student data.
• Provides instructional guidance and monitors student progress by daily documentation of student performance using ongoing authentic assessment and multiple assessment tools; employs interventions and formal/informal assessment procedures.
• Provides daily instruction in music, art, and physical movement/development.

Student Growth and Development

• Reinforces and demonstrates the belief that all students have the potential to achieve at high levels; supports all students in their pursuit of social-emotional learning and academic success.
• Acquires, analyzes, and uses background information (such as familial, cultural, educational, linguistic, and developmental characteristics) to engage students in the learning process.
• Facilitates each student’s learning by employing evidence-based practices and concepts related to learning and social-emotional development.

Content Knowledge & Expertise

• Understands the major concepts, key themes, multiple perspectives, assumptions, processes of inquiry, structure, and real-world applications of early childhood and all subjects and content.
• Designs and executes quality lessons that are consistent with the concepts of assigned discipline; aligns to TEA Pre-Kindergarten Guidelines and demonstrates expertise in child development.
• Demonstrates content-specific pedagogy that meets the needs of diverse learners using engaging instructional materials to connect prior content knowledge to new learning.

Classroom Environment

• Creates a mutually respectful, collaborative, and safe community of learners by using knowledge of students’ development and backgrounds.
• Organizes the classroom in a safe and accessible manner that maximizes learning.
• Establishes, implements, and communicates consistent routines for effective classroom management, including clear expectations for student behavior.
• Leads and maintains the classroom where students are actively engaged.

Data-Driven Practice

• Implements both formal and informal methods of measuring student progress.
• Sets individual and group learning goals for students by using preliminary data; communicates these goals with students and families to ensure mutual understanding of expectations.
• Collects, reviews, and analyzes data to monitor student progress on a regular basis.
• Accesses collected data to analyze and inform…