ROLE OVERVIEW

ES teachers work in collaborative teams and are responsible for providing an engaging, inquiry-based program to scholars. Our teachers create a safe, structured, and joyful learning community that fosters excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Teachers at AISJ are outcome-oriented, hardworking, and receptive to feedback, putting in the time necessary to ensure scholars meet AISJ’s high expectations for learning.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Planning and Preparation for Learning

• Plan lessons and units by following the AISJ curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade level teachers

• Supports in developing curriculum documentation that reflect horizontal and vertical alignment

• Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars’ misconceptions and confusions

• Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning

• Demonstrates content knowledge in the areas of reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and social emotional learning.

Classroom Management

• Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations.

• Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and builds strong relationships.

• Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year.

• Gets all scholars to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy

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 scholar work.
• Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well.

Delivery of Instruction

• Promotes scholar-centered learning through highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars
• Promotes  inquiry-based and concept-based learning
• Supports scholars with  understanding of  their strengths and opportunities for development, setting their goals, and action planning
• Promotes agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership
• Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up

• Frequently checks for understanding , adjusting teaching, re-teaching and following-up from the data
• Analyzes and reflects on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs
• Gives scholars a well constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction.
• Has scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance.
• Help scholars develop as self-assessors and self-adjusters

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 scholar 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.

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)