Classroom Aide (NY)

Excellence Community Schools; New York (NY); On-site; USD 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-term Disability

Long-term Disability

Life Insurance

Job summary

Excellence Community Schools seeks dedicated educators to join our Bronx, NY/ Stamford, CT network. You will collaborate with grade teams to implement best practices and plan purposeful lessons that help students construct understanding of new concepts.

You will present ideas through various strategies, inspire exploration, and maintain regular communication with families about progress, supporting a caring school community. A High School Diploma is required.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma is required.
• Commitment to excellence and student success.
• Ability to communicate effectively with students, families, and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with grade level teams to implement best practices for all learners.
• Plans purposeful lessons to help students build meaning and understanding.
• Present ideas clearly and guide students to express and discover new ideas.

Skills

Collaboration

Planning

Data analysis

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Excellence Community Schools (ECS)is a Charter Management Organization (CMO) supporting schools in the Bronx, NY and Stamford, CT. Our programs are based on a proven, nationally recognized model, which originated in our flagship school, the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, a National Blue Ribbon School.

Our Mission and Vision

Our schools prepare young scholars to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private, and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and ethical development. We accomplish this by offering a challenging and rigorous academic curriculum, which at the earliest of grades has an eye towards college preparation. To achieve this, our schools create a supportive and caring environment that at all times has high expectations of all students. We offer a differentiated, project-based learning environment that seeks to develop high-level analytic and critical thinking skills in all of our students. Our engaging and rigorous approach to educating our scholars is implemented by a collaborative team of teachers.

Who We Need

We are seeking individuals who are dedicated, ambitious, and committed to student success and education reform. Qualified candidates must demonstrate records of achievement, high degrees of personal responsibility, and the drive to do whatever it takes to ensure that every child achieves academic success. This individual must be committed to excellence, lead by example, and see collaboration as a key component of success.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates and supports grade level team to implement best practices for the success of all learners within the classroom.
• Plans purposefully in order to provide students with opportunities for constructing meaning and developing understanding of new concepts.
• Presents students with new ideas and concepts through a variety of strategies, and inspires and guides them to explore, express and uncover new ideas of their own.
• Administers, collects, and analyzes both qualitative and quantitative data gathered from a variety of assessments on each student.
• Builds relationships with his or her students’ families through regular communication about students’ progress and provides ways in which families can support their children’s learning.
• Supervises lunch and/ or recess.
• Provides support as needed by the school community.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma

Compensation

• Salary $50,000
• Short-term, Long-term Disability benefits and Life Insurance