Classroom Teacher - Exploration Elementary Charter School

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Description

Job Title:
Elementary Classroom Teacher

Organization:
Exploration Elementary Charter School for Science and Technology

Reports To:

Principal

Duration: 11-Month Position

Benefits:
Competitive Salary and NYS Teachers Retirement System, Health Care option as well.

Position Summary

The Classroom Teacher is responsible for demonstrating a spirit of innovation and inquiry in their lessons and interactions with students and families, building a flexible elementary grade program and a class environment favorable to learning and personal growth, establishing effective rapport with pupils, motivating pupils to develop skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for upper elementary grade education, and in accordance with each pupil’s ability while displaying a desire for raising student achievement.

Essential

Job Responsibilities

• Displays a desire for raising student achievement, as well as incorporating the core values of the school emphasizing science and technology
• Collects ongoing performance and progress data to inform instruction and will collaborate with instructors to differentiate learning opportunities for students
• Uses the state standards to create rigorous, objective-driven, multi-disciplinary lessons aligned with curriculum maps
• Identifies in each lesson what thinking skills will be explicitly taught and practiced, what physical, social, or content skills students will be able to do, and how students will know if they can do it
• Differentiates for individual students based on their unique learning and behavioral needs so all students are appropriately engaged and challenged
• Ensures students are engaged through activities and technology that accommodate various learning styles, personality styles, and the need for physical movement
• Creates a classroom environment that tolerates error and change
• Responsible for formative and summative assessments used to maximize teacher decision making and student growth opportunities
• Responsible for ensuring listening and speaking skills are naturally incorporated in student presentation of projects
• Enhances questioning skills, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication
• Provides learning opportunities for students through multiple modalities
• Provides many and varied opportunities for students to achieve mastery while working to promote achievement by all students
• Develops standard-aligned, measurable, ambitious big goals that will increase student opportunities for achievement; assess and track performance against these goals
• Measures student achievement of, and progress toward, the learning objectives and big goals with formative and summative assessment tools
• Provides ongoing and timely feedback to students on their progress towards meeting big goals by frequently checking for understanding and listening
• Uses data to reflect on the effectiveness of lessons and student achievement progress to improve instruction and personal practices
• Creates a focused environment of fairness and respect that encourages students to take risks and strive to reach goals
• Communicates and enforces high expectations and standards for behavior and academic performance to create a strong culture of achievement and respect
• Establishes, models, practices, and reinforces age-appropriate rules and logical consequences; creates and consistently uses individual behavioral management plans, as needed
• Implements classroom procedures, systems, and routines that provide structure for students and maximize instructional time
• Communicates respectfully and thoughtfully with parent/guardians remaining sensitive to different families’ cultures, values, and needs
• Initiates and maintains timely communication with all parents/guardians concerning student progress and provides a clear picture of the curriculum and high…