Roles & Responsibilities
Position Responsibilities
Middle School Educator Responsibilities
- Foster a sense of student belonging by cultivating joy and purpose throughout the Middle School.
- Cultivate a caring and culturally responsive learning community in Advisory, as well as the classroom, taking into account physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of students.
- Experience and / or demonstrated skills facilitating restorative conversations when supporting student behavior in the learning environment.
- Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world issues, and a culturally responsive curriculum.
- Design quality formative, summative and self-guided assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicate students’ growth and achievement.
- Plan and implement engaging learning experiences that are inquiry-based, collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated.
- Respond to learners’ diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions.
- Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback with one another, and engages in professional learning and reflection.
- Actively engage in professional learning and growth through regular observation and feedback cycles with Professional Learning Community Coaches and Principals.
- Design and implement inquiry-based learning experiences in and beyond the classroom to prompt learners to question, investigate, create, and reflect.
- Experience with or interest in co-teaching in a flexible learning environment.
- Demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
- Integrate technology in innovative ways in daily instruction to enhance learning.
- Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and / or community service projects, etc.).
- Strive for continuous self-improvement as a life-long learner.
- Model the Core Values in your interactions with all members of the school community.
- Lead and engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the learning spaces, which extend learning experiences for students (supervision, overnight Classroom Without Walls trips, sports coaching, field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, TRi Time, community service projects, etc.)
- Connect with and be available to parents and students during and outside of school hours (in person and via email communication)
Role-Specific Responsibilities
Understand and utilize the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum in order to provide lessons aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.Employ research-based teaching practices that nurture students’ positive identities as knowers, doers, and sense-making of mathematics.Provide access and challenge to all students by utilizing data from formative and summative assessments as well as classroom observations.Foster positive relationships outside of the classroom by engaging with students in math-specific clubs and activities (sponsorship of Math Counts, Math Olympiad and / or grade-level Math Help).Position Requirements & Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant fieldMaster’s Degree in a relevant field preferredTeaching license or a degree in educationAt least two years of full-time teaching experience preferredStandards-based curriculum experience preferredExcellent verbal and written English language skillsConfident technology skills for teaching and administrative tasksWorking Requirements
Sponsoring and / or coaching after-school activities are part of the responsibility of the professional educator. Therefore, faculty shall be available to coach and / or sponsor an athletic team or other extracurricular activity. Each faculty member is expected to do a minimum of one Category 1 activity or sport per year.Required attendance at school professional learning daysChaperone and participate in evening and / or weekend school activities each year, as assigned (including “Back-to-School Night”).Tell employers what skills you have
Coaching
Childcare
Sponsorship
Sports Coaching
Written English
Classroom
Curriculum Design
Teaching
Classroom Management
Interpersonal Skills
Early Childhood Education
Mathematics
Interventions
First Aid
Teaching Experience
Wellbeing