5th Grade ELA Teacher

Position: 5th Grade ELA Teacher
Reports To: K-5 Building Principal, Jennifer Pangborn
Wage/Hour Status: Exempt/ 10 month

Mission:
To educate and inspire a diverse community of K-12 learners by engaging them in rigorous real-world learning experiences which prioritize intellectual, social and emotional growth.
Vision:
Tapestry is a vibrant, sustainable school that empowers learners and leaders to make a positive impact in our communities and beyond.
Position Summary: To plan, organize and implement an appropriate instructional program in a pseudo-middle school EL Education learning environment that guides and encourages students to develop and fulfill their academic potential using Tapestry's core values of: perseverance, integrity, respect and responsibility.

In this model, you are an ELA teacher in a semi-departmentalized team of 4 teachers. Two teachers teach Expedition (science/social studies & math), while the other two teachers teach ELA. There are a total of 80 students in the 5th grade. This position requires you to share a small cohort of 40 students that will go between yourself and a math and sci/ss teacher daily. Class sizes are 20 total. You will be in a brand new K-5 building located at 111 Great Arrow Ave.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Use EL Core Practices as teacher in an EL Education School
• Work with a diverse population of students in an urban setting
• Plan, prepare and deliver engaging lesson plans and instructional materials that facilitate active learning
• Use relevant technology to support and differentiate instruction
• Manage student behavior in the classroom by establishing and enforcing rules, expectations and procedures that includes restorative justice aspects
• Encourage and monitor the progress of individual students and use information to adjust teaching strategies (DDI)
• Establish and communicate learning targets for all learning activities
• Observe and evaluate student's performance and development
• Assign and grade class work, homework, tests and assignments

Ability to:

• Demonstrate preparation and skill in working with students in diverse cultural, economic and ability backgrounds
• Commitment to the success of all children
• Encourage parent and community involvement, obtain information for parents when requested, promptly return phone calls and answer emails
• Demonstrates success in collaborative teaching, managing a mixed ability classroom and facilitating performance based learning
• Participate in appropriate professional actives
• Other duties as assigned

Strategic Initiatives VI: Tapestry's Teacher Experience

• Shared Leadership & ongoing collaboration about what is best for our school programming
• Opportunities to work with a mentor
• Opportunities to work with our ELA instructional coach
• Opportunities to work with an instructional coach on curriculum and use EL Resources: Management in the Active Classroom
• Opportunities to attend compensated summer Professional Development sessions at Tapestry around Mathematics with a team
• Opportunities to lead after school clubs of interest
• Weekly grade level Professional Development around 2018-19 initiatives, built into the school day with the building principal and academic coaches
• Small class size/homeroom of 20
• Two planning periods per day; no extended school day or year; 180 days
• Excellent and vibrant culture for teachers

Please make sure to complete an application at http://www.wnyric.org/application for this job posting.

Contact Person's Name: Jennifer Pangborn

Contact Person's Title: K-5 Building Principal

Contact Person's Email: pangbornj@tapestryschool.org

Posting Link: https://tapestryschool.org/