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Science Teacher (School Year 2024 - 2025)
toile Academy teachers are responsible for executing on the mission by ensuring that all students improve academically and demonstrate our core values. Teachers are responsible for providing high-quality, data-driven instruction and instructional support to all learners. They are responsible for collaborating with colleagues, including special education teachers, to ensure all students get the accommodations and modifications needed to master the standards. We want our students to love science, to be curious about the world around them, and to learn primarily through experiments and field work.
Responsibilities
- Internalizing curriculum, standards, and assessments to deliver and eventually create rigorous lessons aligned to state standards.
- Following schoolwide systems to provide unit plans and lesson plans to the School Director for review and feedback.
- Analyzing assessment data (formative, summative, interim) to refine lesson and unit plans, to provide support to struggling students, and to adjust flexible groupings.
- Providing clear incentives and consequences to support students in reaching high expectations of behavior.
- Supporting students in mastering state standards, including providing targeted interventions and remediation when necessary.
- Actively participating in non-instructional school activities, including arrival, breakfast, break, lunch, and dismissal.
- Managing preparation time blocks to best improve instruction and impact student learning.
- Participating actively in weekly coaching and feedback sessions as well as weekly and monthly professional development.
- Participating in family engagement activities including home visits, family orientations, family conferences, and family workshops.
We look for team members that embody our REACH values. This includes the characteristics below.
- Believes and is committed to our missionand being an agent of change: that all studentsare capable of gettingto and through college
- Has demonstrated effectiveoutcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
- Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improvequickly
- Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
- Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
- Works through silos and forges strong relationshipsin order toachieve outcomes
- We believe in education asa professionand hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four-year educational institution is required.
- Experience: Experience in a classroom setting preferred
- Licenses or Certifications: State certification preferred but not required
- Dual certification in Special Education or ESL preferred
