Planning and Preparation for Learning:
- Plan lessons and units by following the AISJ curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade-level teachers.
- Support in developing curriculum documentation that reflects horizontal and vertical alignment.
- Demonstrate planning with consideration of differentiated needs, scholar engagement, and anticipate scholars' misconceptions and confusion.
- Demonstrate a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning.
- Demonstrate transdisciplinary and play-based content knowledge in the areas of language, literacy, math, science, social studies, social-emotional, and cognitive learning.
Classroom Management:
- Be direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations.
- Show warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and build strong relationships.
- Successfully inculcate class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year.
- Encourage all scholars to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy.
Delivery of Instruction:
- Promote scholar-centered learning through highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars.
- Promote inquiry-based and concept-based learning.
Professional Responsibilities:
- Design each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes.
- Collaborate with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and review scholarly work.
- Seek out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implement them well.
- Support scholars with an understanding of their strengths and opportunities for development, setting their goals and action planning.
- Promote agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership.
- Successfully reach all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding.
Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up:
- Frequently check for understanding, adjusting teaching, re-teaching, and following up on the data.
- Analyze and reflect on collected data to continuously ensure lesson and unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs.
- Provide scholars with a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and use the information to fine-tune instruction.
- Help scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance.
- Assist scholars in developing as self-assessors and self-adjusters.
Family and Community Outreach:
- Communicate respectfully with parents and be sensitive to different families' cultures and values.
- Show parents a genuine interest and belief in each child's ability to reach standards.
- Provide parents with clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year.
- Promptly inform parents of behavior and learning problems, and also update parents on good news.
- Update parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggest ways to support learning at home.
- Respond promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.
Other Responsibilities:
- Engage with the community in after-school activities.
- Engage with the community in open communication.
- Supervision duties will be assigned.
- Participate in After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week).
Specific Qualifications Required for this Role:
- Teaching Credential/License.
- Other Certification.