4th Grade ELA Teacher Position
Structure:
We are excited to hire for the expansion of our 4th and 5th grades for the 2022 school year. Our goal is to create the greatest sense of personalization and sense of belonging for our younger students by limiting each class to 20 students. Each grade will be capped at 60 students which will be divided into 3 cohorts of 20 students. To do this we are restructuring our current high quality staff and hiring teachers who are passionate about either ELA, Social Studies/Science or math for each grade level.
4th Grade ELA Teacher role and responsibility:
Responsible for all communication needs:
Manage all Read Plans
Ensure vertical alignment with the ELA teachers in the Upper School
Communicate positive phone calls and emails to parents - as well as necessary concerns.
Facilitate communication between students, parents, and core teachers.(Bi-monthly parent newsletters representing the upcoming events of your grade level)
Communicate with administration regarding teaching and learning needs in the grade level classrooms - necessary project supplies are ordered in a timely manner.
Facilitate communication between grade level teachers regarding opportunities for collaboration and common procedures/policies - Lead PLC meetings.
Organize press releases of Exhibitions to Durango Herald and Radio.
Resolve low level discipline issues in your grade level.
Document student’s inappropriate behaviors.
Manage necessary behavior plans with the school counselors.
Provide coverage for your grade level teachers during absences
Implement standards based curriculum maps, instruction, and assessment.
Coordinate planning time.
Plan field work experiences.
Plan and organize high quality Exhibitions
Assist teachers with creating project deadlines and project launches.
Tune Long-Term and daily learning targets.
Ensure weekly/updated grades are posted
General Responsibilities:
Maintain and enrich their expertise in the subject area(s) they teach;
Develop rigorous projects and lesson plans that ensure the attainment of state learning standards and the additional specific grade-by-grade learning standards set forth in the charter;
Coordinate projects and lesson plans with other teachers to maximize possibilities for teaching similar topics in the same general time frame, thus reinforcing student knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis;
Provide direct and indirect instruction;
Develop robust rubrics designed to guide student learning;
Long and short-term planning addressing individual needs of students;
Prepare students adequately for all required assessments both within the classroom and in large scale assessment such as iReady and CMAS;
Evaluate students’ progress on an ongoing basis;
Prepare and post assessments for individual student achievement weekly in order to provide parents real time access to online data;
Provide an inviting, exciting, innovative, learning environment;
Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management;
Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff;
Serve as an advisor to a students, including organizing advisory groups, overseeing the academic and behavioral progress;
Perform other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the Head of School.
Qualifications:
Highly qualified or licensed;
Demonstrated expertise in the subject they will teach, as evidenced by personal skills and knowledge, an undergraduate major or minor or graduate degree in the subject they will teach, or direct subject-area teaching experience;
Demonstrated communication skills;
Demonstrated ability and experience to engage the interest of 4th and 5th grade-age children;
Demonstrated ability to work with diverse children, including those with special needs;
Teaching experience in a public or private school;
Demonstrated ability to work well with parents;
Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a team member;
Demonstrated ability to evaluate tests and measurements of achievement.
Below is our new 12,000 sq. ft. 4th/5th grade building with a rooftop classroom, digital media makerspace and art studio.
