TEACHER, LONG TERM SUBSTITUTE, ELEMENTARY-4TH-5TH, ELA-E

CENTENNIAL-A SCHOOL FOR EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING

Northwest

Hourly, benefits eligible with minimum hours

FTE: 1.0

Salary: $22.42 per hour

Dates Needed: January 11, 2021 - April 2, 2021

Subjects and Grades:

* Position begins in school year 2020-2021
* Grade 04 - Fourth
* Grade 05 - Fifth
* ELA Designation: ELA-E
* Elementary Education

Essential Functions and Objectives:

- The Long Term Substitute Teacher teaches a diverse school student population grade level standards based curriculum in Reading, Writing, Math, Science, Social Studies and Personal Development. Monitors, supervises, coordinates and enforces rules of conduct and behavior of assigned students, and reinforces positive student behaviors in accordance with school and District policy. Observes, evaluates, reports and records students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health. Communicates with parents or guardians, teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.

Knowledge, Experience, & Other Qualifications:

- Must possess a current Colorado Teacher License with appropriate endorsement.

- Provides instruction to linguistically diverse students in English only.
- Teaches diverse elementary school students grade level standards based curriculum in Reading, Writing, Math, Science, Social Studies and Personal Development.

Qualifications:

Please enter all of your education, licensure, and endorsements on your profile before submitting an application for this position. Candidates without a complete profile will not be considered. If your teaching license is pending, you are eligible to apply.

Education:

To see what qualifications are acceptable for this role, please refer to this teacher qualifications guide : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wjNPW43JNUZixwWegvfuzKstB7iJu6or/view.

Other information:

Centennial, A School for Expeditionary Learning is a neighborhood school in Northwest Denver. The EL model challenges students to think critically and take active roles in their classroom and communities, resulting in higher achievement and greater engagement in school. At EL schools learning is active, challenging, meaningful public and collaborative. Centennial currently serves approximately 500 students in grades ECE-5 and 7-8. Over the course of the next two years Centennial will phase out the middle years program. By the start of the 2015-16 school year Centennial, A School for Expeditionary Learning will be an ECE-5 school. Centennial's population is 75% Hispanic and 80% Free/Reduced Lunch. Centennial is a Transitional Native Language Instruction (TNLI) school and provides native language Spanish instruction in one classroom per grade level. Students are grouped in multi-aged classrooms at Centennial to ensure strong relationships are developed between teachers, students and families.

About Denver Public Schools:

Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.

Under the leadership of Superintendent Susana Cordova and guided by the tenets of The Denver Plan, DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org.

Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.