Job Description:
ROLE OVERVIEW
ES teachers work in collaborative teams and are responsible for providing an engaging, inquiry-based program to scholars. Our teachers create a safe, structured, and joyful learning community that fosters excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Teachers at AISJ are outcome-oriented, hardworking, and receptive to feedback, putting in the time necessary to ensure scholars meet AISJ’s high expectations for learning.
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 differentiation needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars’ misconceptions and confusions
- Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning
- Demonstrates content knowledge in the areas of reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and social emotional 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
Professional Responsibilities
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Designs each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes.
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Collaborates with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and look at scholar work.
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Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well.
Delivery of Instruction
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Promotes scholar-centered learning through highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars
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Promotes inquiry-based and concept-based learning
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Supports scholars with understanding of their strengths and opportunities for development, setting their goals, and action planning
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Promotes agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership
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Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding
Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up
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Frequently checks for understanding , adjusting teaching, re-teaching and following-up from the data
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Analyzes and reflects on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs
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Gives scholars a well constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction.
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Has scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance.
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Help scholars develop as self-assessors and self-adjusters
Family and Community Outreach
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Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families’ cultures and values.
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Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child’s ability to reach standards.
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Gives parents clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year.
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Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates parents on good news.
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Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support learning at home.
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Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.
Other Responsibilities
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Engage with community in after-school activities
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Engage with community in open communication
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Supervision duties will be assigned
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After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week)