English Teacher

Essential Responsibilities:

Advisory

• Establish and maintain an appropriate plan of education for all students

• Establish learning goals for students in partnership with parents

• Review progress toward goals with students, co-teachers, coaches, learning specialist and parents regularly

• Hold 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

• Create appropriate differentiated learning environment: stimulating, active, safe, respectful, Inquiry based learning

• Use effective, positive, respectful interpersonal communication skills with students, staff and families

• Implement school wide curriculum (Writing and Reading workshop, Math Investigations 3, Peace of Mind) through the units of Inquiry and social emotional support.

• Prepare lessons, projects and assessments for students

• Implement interdisciplinary activities using an array of community, learning resources and multicultural content

• Infuse language acquisition (English/Target Language) throughout the day

• Collaborate with specials teachers to ensure the units of inquiry are transdisciplinary.

• Include actions (social justice and community service) in units of inquiry.

• Integrate technology into the curriculum (word processing, electronic mail, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, databases, graphics, Internet, video resources and production) and reference resources of researched information.

• Gather information about students’ behavior and academic performance data

• Conduct ongoing assessments to measure students’ academic progress (math signature assessment, reading assessments, etc.)

• Collect and use data objectively for instructional decision making

• Meet every week with coach, IB coordinator and Learning Specialist to plan IB units of Inquiry

• Meet with co-teacher, coach and learning specialist to share data

• Implement interventions suggested by Learning Specialist and communicate to team about students' progress

• Implement Individual Education Plan (IEP), assesses and monitors student learning outcomes

Contribute to school and individual team development. Duties may include:

• Attend staff meetings, professional development and recommended training programs

• Contribute to implement, supervise and reinforce school wide routines through the year:

• Morning Line up: 8:05 am

• Hallway Transitions during the day

• Cafeteria: lunch duty

• Dismissal from the classroom to aftercare

• Collaborate in at least two school wide events (Science Fair, Heritage Day, Taste of Stokes, Franco Fete, Spelling Bee, Black History Month, etc.)

• Complete school surveys in a timely manner

Contribute to Family Engagement and Community Involvement. Duties may include:

• Attend Family Engagement trainings in order to build sustainable relationships with families

• Schedule home visits and inform parents about the purpose of the visit

• Conduct home visits to at least 80% of families of current classroom

• Enter home-visits data into Flamboyan website

• Communicate and maintain regularly positive communication with families

• Reflect every two months on-going communications practice and enter information into Flamboyan website

• Involve parents in decisions about their children

• Plan, design and create activities for Goal Setting PTC and APTT meetings

PTC:

• Invite parents and schedule individual meetings with parents

• Collect data about students' performance on subject areas

• Determine goals for student's improvement

• Plan, design and create activities for Goal Setting PTC and meeting

• Present data of reading levels and math signature assessment

• Present standard and explain activities for parents to work with children at home

• Set 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)

• Invite parents to a meeting

• Collect data about students' performance on subject areas

• Determine goals for student's improvement

• Plan, design and create activities for Goal Setting PTC and meeting

• Present data of reading levels and math signature assessment

• Present standard and explain activities for parents to work with children at home

• Set goal with parents and let the group know when the next meeting will be

Professional Development

• Participate in all ongoing faculty-wide professional development activities

• Participate in all personal and staff-wide performance evaluation activities

• Work with coach creating action steps to improve performance as needed

• Strive for professional excellence

Other Duties

• Maintain classroom organized and help maintain materials accessible for students

• Create 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)

• Place orders, leave request, field trip request, etc., in a timely manner (Help Desk)

• Send newsletter to families via email every week

• Complete plans on weekly plan and IB planner every week

• Complete report cards in a timely manner

• Attend to IEP meetings if needed

• Supervise lunch duties and recess, as assigned

• May supervise an instructional assistant or an assistant teacher.

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