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Elsie Whitlow Stokes CFPCS

3700 Oakview Terrace, NE Washington DC 20017
Washington, DC, DC, United States

Phone: 202.265.7237
Web Site: www.ewstokes.org

Company Profile

Target Language Teacher (Spanish or French)


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Job ID:

20768

Location:

Washington, DC, DC, United States 

Category:

Education

Salary:

48K-65K per year
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Job Views:

1528

Zip Code:

20017

Employment Type:

Full time

Posted:

05.22.2023
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Occupations:

Education: Classroom Teaching level3, Early Childhood Care & Development, Elementary School

Job Description:

Target Language Teacher (Spanish or French)
Essential Responsibilities Advisory
  • Establishes and maintains an appropriate plan of education for all students
  • Establishes learning goals for students in partnership with parents
  • Regularly reviews progress toward goals with students, co-teachers, coaches, learning specialist and parents regularly
  • Holds 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

  • Creates appropriate differentiated learning environment: stimulating, active, safe, respectful, Inquiry based learning
  • Uses effective, positive, respectful interpersonal communication skills with students, staff and families
  • Implements school wide curriculum (Writing and Reading workshop, Math Investigations 3, Peace of Mind) through the units of Inquiry and social emotional support.
  • Prepares lessons, projects and assessments for students

Instructional/Learning Facilitation (Cont)

  • Implements interdisciplinary activities using an array of community, learning resources and multicultural content
  • Infuses the PYP language throughout the day
  • Collaborates with specials teachers to ensure the units of inquiry are transdisciplinary.
  • Includes actions (social justice and community service) in units of inquiry. 
  • Integrates technology into the curriculum (word processing, electronic mail, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, databases, graphics, Internet, video resources and production) and reference resources of researched information.
  • Gathers information about students’ behavior and academic performance data
  • Conduct ongoing assessments to measure students’ academic progress (math signature assessment, reading assessments, etc.)
  • Collects and use data objectively for instructional decision making
  • Meets every week with coach, IB coordinator and Learning Specialist to plan IB units of Inquiry
  • Meets with co-teacher, coach and learning specialist to share data
  • Implements interventions suggested by Learning Specialist and communicate to team about students' progress
  • Implements Individual Education Plan (IEP), assesses and monitors student learning outcomes
Contribute to school and individual team development
  • Attends staff meetings, professional development and recommended training programs
  • Contributes to implement, supervise and reinforce school wide routines through the year: Morning Line up: 7:50 am, Hallway Transitions during the day, Cafeteria: lunch duty, Dismissal from the classroom to aftercare
  • Collaborates in at least two school wide events (Science Fair, Heritage Day, Taste of Stokes, Franco Fete, Spelling Bee, Black History Month, etc.)
  • Completes school surveys in a timely manner

Contribute to Family Engagement and Community Involvement

  • Attends Family Engagement trainings in order to build sustainable relationships with families
  • Schedules home visits and inform parents about the purpose of the visit
  • Conducts home visits to at least 80% of families of current classroom
  • Enters home-visits data into Flamboyan website
  • Communicates and maintains regularly positive communication with families
 Contribute to Family Engagement and Community Involvement (Cont)
  • Reflects every two months on-going communications practice and enter information into Flamboyan website
  • Involves parents in decisions about their children
  • Plans, designs and creates activities for Goal Setting PTC and APTT meetings
Parent Techer Conferences
  • Invites parents and schedule individual meetings with parents
  • Collects data about students' performance on subject areas
  • Determines goals for student's improvement
  • Plans, designs and creates activities for Goal Setting PTC and meeting
  • Presents data of reading levels and math signature assessment
  • Presents standard and explain activities for parents to work with children at home
  • Sets 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)
  • Invites parents to a meeting
  • Collects data about students' performance on subject areas
  • Determines goals for student's improvement
  • Plans, designs and creates activities for Goal Setting PTC and meeting
  • Presents data of reading levels and math signature assessment
  • Presents standard and explain activities for parents to work with children at home
  • Sets goal with parents and let the group know when the next meeting will be

Professional Development

  • Participates in all ongoing faculty-wide professional development activities
  • Participates in all personal and staff-wide performance evaluation activities
  • Works with coach creating action steps to improve performance as needed
  • Strives for professional excellence

Other Duties

  • Maintains classroom organized and help maintain materials accessible for students
  • Creates 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)
  • Places orders, leave request, field trip request, etc., in a timely manner (Help Desk)
  • Sends newsletter to families via email every week
  • Completes plans on weekly plan and IB planner every week
  • Completes report cards in a timely manner
  • Attends to IEP meetings if needed
  • Supervises lunch duties and recess, as assigned
  • May supervise an instructional assistant or an assistant teacher.
  • Additional duties as needed
Professionalism
  • Arrive to school on time
  • 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

Job Requirements:

Requisite Skills and Experience:
  • Requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood or Elementary Education or equivalent.
  • Fluency in English and French; or English and Spanish (required for TL teachers).
  • A minimum of one year of experience teaching young children preferred.