Essential Responsibilities:
Advisory
- Establish and maintain an appropriate plan of education for all students
- Establish learning goals for students in partnership with parents
- Review progress toward goals with students, co-teachers, coaches, learning specialist and parents regularly
- Hold parent conferences a minimum of three times each year or one individual PTC and 3 APTT meetings. During the meeting teachers and parents should review student progress and at more frequent intervals, as needed.
Instructional/Learning Facilitation
- Create appropriate differentiated learning environment: stimulating, active, safe, respectful, Inquiry based learning
- Use effective, positive, respectful interpersonal communication skills with students, staff and families
- Implement school wide curriculum (Writing and Reading workshop, Math Investigations 3, Peace of Mind) through the units of Inquiry and social emotional support.
- Prepare lessons, projects and assessments for students
- Implement interdisciplinary activities using an array of community, learning resources and multicultural content
- Infuse language acquisition (English/Target Language) throughout the day
- Collaborate with specials teachers to ensure the units of inquiry are transdisciplinary.
- Include actions (social justice and community service) in units of inquiry.
- Integrate technology into the curriculum (word processing, electronic mail, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, databases, graphics, Internet, video resources and production) and reference resources of researched information.
- Gather information about students’ behavior and academic performance data
- Conduct ongoing assessments to measure students’ academic progress (math signature assessment, reading assessments, etc.)
- Collect and use data objectively for instructional decision making
- Meet every week with coach, IB coordinator and Learning Specialist to plan IB units of Inquiry
- Meet with co-teacher, coach and learning specialist to share data
- Implement interventions suggested by Learning Specialist and communicate to team about students' progress
- Implement Individual Education Plan (IEP), assesses and monitors student learning outcomes
Contribute to school and individual team development. Duties may include:
- Attend staff meetings, professional development and recommended training programs
- Contribute to implement, supervise and reinforce school wide routines through the year:
- Hallway Transitions during the day
- Dismissal from the classroom to aftercare
- Collaborate in at least two school wide events (Science Fair, Heritage Day, Taste of Stokes, Franco Fete, Spelling Bee, Black History Month, etc.)
- Complete school surveys in a timely manner
Contribute to Family Engagement and Community Involvement. Duties may include:
- Attend Family Engagement trainings in order to build sustainable relationships with families
- Schedule home visits and inform parents about the purpose of the visit
- Conduct home visits to at least 80% of families of current classroom
- Enter home-visits data into Flamboyan website
- Communicate and maintain regularly positive communication with families
- Reflect every two months on-going communications practice and enter information into Flamboyan website
- Involve parents in decisions about their children
- Plan, design and create activities for Goal Setting PTC and APTT meetings
PTC:
- Invite parents and schedule individual meetings with parents
- Collect data about students' performance on subject areas
- Determine goals for student's improvement
- Plan, design and create activities for Goal Setting PTC and meeting
- Present data of reading levels and math signature assessment
- Present standard and explain activities for parents to work with children at home
- Set goal with parents and let them know when the next meeting to review performance will happen
APTT: Conduct three APTT and one PTC meeting (1st-5th grade teachers)
- Invite parents to a meeting
- Collect data about students' performance on subject areas
- Determine goals for student's improvement
- Plan, design and create activities for Goal Setting PTC and meeting
- Present data of reading levels and math signature assessment
- Present standard and explain activities for parents to work with children at home
- Set goal with parents and let the group know when the next meeting will be
Professional Development
- Participate in all ongoing faculty-wide professional development activities
- Participate in all personal and staff-wide performance evaluation activities
- Work with coach creating action steps to improve performance as needed
- Strive for professional excellence
Other Duties
- Maintain classroom organized and help maintain materials accessible for students
- Create a student work display on the classroom bulletin board for each trimester and collaborate with other teachers to create informational bulletin boards for the school (IB related)
- Place orders, leave request, field trip request, etc., in a timely manner (Help Desk)
- Send newsletter to families via email every week
- Complete plans on weekly plan and IB planner every week
- Complete report cards in a timely manner
- Attend to IEP meetings if needed
- Supervise lunch duties and recess, as assigned
- May supervise an instructional assistant or an assistant teacher.
Professionalism
- Arrive to PD, school wide meetings on time
- Start team meetings on time
- Inform co-teacher if you plan to be absent and send plan for next day ahead of time
