Role Overview 

AISJ High School
teachers model the way. We model what we teach for our scholars.  High
school teachers know that we measure our success by the learning that is taking
place inside and outside of the classroom, and not the teaching alone. 
High School teachers believe that by working in partnership with our parents,
scholars, and greater community, all of our scholars will be prepared for
success to get to and through college and make an impact on the world at
large around them through collaboration, innovation, and excellence

Job
Responsibilities

Planning and
Preparation for Learning     
Demonstrates lesson design with standards and unit outcomes in mind      
Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar
engagement, and anticipates scholars’ misconceptions and confusions using a
Unit Delivery Plan      
Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar
learning    
Demonstrates content knowledge    
Review and update curriculum   

Classroom
Management    
Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing
very high expectations.   
Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all students and builds strong
relationships.      
Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that students maintain them
throughout the year.     
Gets all students to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their
actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy     
(follow up) Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured and nips virtually all
discipline problems in the bud.  

Delivery of
Instruction      
Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve
and motivate all scholars.

Professional
Responsibilities    
Designs each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards
and unit outcomes.       
Collaborates with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and look at
student work.       
Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other
sources and implements them well.        
Gets all scholars highly involved in focused work in which they are active
learners and problem-solvers.     
Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Monitoring
Assessment & Follow-up     
Frequently check for understanding and adjusting teaching, re-teaching and
follow-up from the data    
Analyze and reflect on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit
plans are designed to meet student needs       
Gives students a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the
information to fine-tune instruction.       
Has students set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and
take responsibility for improving performance.

Family and
Community Outreach    
Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families’
cultures and values.  
Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child’s ability to reach
standards.    
Gives parents clear expectations for student learning and behavior for the year.    
Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates
parents on good news.    
Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support
learning at home.       
Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the
school.

Collaboration      
Working with colleagues to analyze data for placements and reflect on work
(what worked and what did not work)    
Seeking and accepting feedback from colleagues to improve student growth     
Capitalizing on each other’s strengths and working with each other’s areas of
growth

Other
Responsibilities      
Engage with community in after-school activities     
Engage with community in open communication
Supervision duties will be assigned   
After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week)