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Elementary Teacher

Employer
Central 1 Schools
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina
Salary
$40,000 - $68,000 + Benefits, Professional Development and Career Advancement Opportunities

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Summary of Role

The elementary teacher is responsible for planning, preparing, and delivering instruction, and monitoring student progress to determine instructional needs. The teacher collaborates with team members, such as other teachers, digital lab monitors, tutors, assistant teachers, personal coaches, and school administration to review student progress and change instruction as needed to ensure high-progress, enriched learning for every student.

The new elementary teacher will work with an experienced team and enjoy a planning block each day with your professional learning community. 

Responsibilities

Planning and Preparation

  • Set high expectations of achievement that are ambitious and measurable for students
  • Plan backward to align all lessons, activities, and assessments
  • Determine how students spend instructional time (e.g., with digital software for knowledge and skill acquisition, large and small groups with the teacher, project-based learning, individual interventions with tutors or assistant teachers, etc.)
  • Design in-person instruction that is enriched (developing higher-order thinking skills) and personalized (reflecting learning levels and interests of individual students)
  • Design assessments that accurately assess student progress and/or incorporate digital assessments

Classroom Environment

  • Hold students accountable for high expectations of behavior and engagement that are ambitious and measurable
  • Create physical classroom environments conducive to collaborative and individual learning
  • Establish a culture of respect, enthusiasm, and rapport

Instruction

  • Hold students accountable for ambitious, measurable standards of academic achievement
  • Identify and address individual students’ social, emotional, and behavioral learning needs and barriers
  • Identify and address individual students’ development of organizational and time-management skills
  • Invest students in their learning by using a variety of influence techniques
  • Incorporate questioning and discussion in student learning
  • Incorporate small-group and individual instruction to personalize and tailor instruction to individual needs
  • Monitor and analyze student data from assessments to inform enriched instruction by the teacher, follow-up tutoring by the tutor(s) or assistant teacher(s), and changes in digital instruction
  • Provide paraprofessional(s) with student groupings and specific instructional assignments for follow-up tutoring
  • Communicate with students and keep them informed of their progress

Professional Responsibilities

  • Solicit and eagerly receive feedback from supervisor and team members to improve professional skills
  • Maintain regular communication with families, and work collaboratively with them to design learning both at home and at school, and to encourage a home life conducive to learning success
  • Collaborate with other teachers, tutors, assistant teacher(s) and lab monitor(s) to analyze student data, group students, teach and assign interventions
  • Participate in professional development opportunities at school

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Knowledge of subject matter being taught
  • Appropriate NC licensure for subject and grade level
  • Minimum one to two years of teaching experience

Hours

  • Full-time teaching position
  • Core subject teacher teaches multiple classes in alternating time blocks through the day
  • Core subject teacher has built-in planning and collaboration times to complete administrative tasks, analyze data, and plan instruction

Pay

  • Salary based on district pay scale, plus benefits.

Reports to:

  • Principal

 

 

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