Skip to main content

This job has expired

Long Term Substitute - Elementary General Education Teacher

Employer
Elmwood Village
Location
Buffalo, NY, United States
Salary
Competitive
n Position: Long Term Substitute - General Education (Intermediate Grades)


Our Mission
The Elmwood Village Charter Schools provide a stimulating and engaging learning environment that recognizes student capability, fosters their connectedness to their immediate and broader communities, and offers them ways to contribute to school life. EVCS believes that all students can and will learn at high levels when provided with the right learning conditions.

Our Schools
We believe that the social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum, and children must meet with social success before they can achieve high levels of academic success. To that end:
  • Our students are exposed to a strong academic program that emphasizes social responsibility, arts integration, multiculturalism, and community alliances.
  • Our students experience academic success in an intimate, peaceful, and diverse school community that appreciates different learning styles.
  • At Elmwood Village Charter Schools, students know that they are valued and respected, and each one of them can contribute to school life.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a student-centered, dynamic Elementary Classroom Teacher who will:
  • Plan and implement instructional units that are aligned to the New York State Common Core Standards and the curriculum of the Elmwood Village Charter Schools
  • Use data from all assessment sources to monitor student progress toward meeting academic targets
  • Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all learners
  • Organize flexible, goal-oriented groups that are based on students' instructional needs
  • Coordinate with other teachers to meet program requirements of the Elmwood Village Charter Schools, including participation in grade level planning meetings
  • Provide an inviting, exciting, stimulating, and innovative learning environment
  • Coordinate the classroom instructional team, which can include a teaching assistant, an AIS teacher, and ESL teacher, and/or a special education teacher
  • Ensure that lessons are rigorous and allow for students to elaborate, analyze, make cross-curricular connections, apply what they have learned, and develop creativity and problem-solving strategies
  • Maintain open communication with parents and encourage parent participation
  • Maintain a classroom environment conducive to learning by following the Responsive Classroom and Cooperative Discipline models
  • Enable students to develop social responsibility by faithfully following the Responsive Classroom and Cooperative Discipline models
  • Promote connection to the wider community through field trips, guest presenters, and service projects
  • Provide a nurturing, supportive, and positive learning environment with high expectations that encourages student responsibility and creates community

What We Look For
We want someone who:
  • Commitment to the Mission and Core Values of Elmwood Village Charter School
  • Commitment to continuous improvement principles
  • Ability to work with young children in a nurturing school environment
  • Has strong oral and written communication skills
  • Is able to build interpersonal relationships with diverse audiences
  • Maintains a positive attitude, even in the face of pressure
  • Is a team player and open to receiving feedback
  • Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, and is flexible
  • Is solutions-oriented and completes tasks and projects effectively and in a timely manner
  • Takes initiative, prioritizes tasks effectively, and can work independently with little direction
  • Maintains confidentiality and exercises discretion in the dissemination of information
  • Has strong organizational, problem-solving and data-gathering skill

Qualifications
  • A master's degree, or enrollment in a master's program, is required. Prior teaching experience is preferred.
  • Valid New York State Teaching Certificate
  • Candidates must have excellent writing, interpersonal, and organizational skills, and the ability to work both independently, and on a team.
  • Excellent writing, interpersonal, and organizational skills, and the ability to work both independently and on a team.


Please make sure to complete an application by clicking here for this job posting.

Additional Job Information : For more information about EVCS please visit our website at evcsbuffalo.org

Send Resume to : Kimberly Rosenfeld

Contact Person's Phone : 7164240555

Contact Person's Email : krosenfeld@elmwoodvillageschool.org

Job Posting Link : https://www.evcsbuffalo.org/careers

Posting Link : www.evcsbuffalo.org

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalized job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert