Diverse First Looking for Elementary Teacher at Rochester, NY Full Time

Elementary Teachers are responsible for demonstrating a spirit of innovation and inquiry in their lessons and interactions with students and families, building a flexible elementary grade program and a class environment favorable to learning and personal growth, establishing effective rapport with pupils, motivating pupils to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for upper elementary grade education, and in accordance with each pupil’s ability while displaying a desire for raising student achievement.
Essential Functions

• Displays a desire for raising student achievement, as well as incorporating the core values of the school emphasizing science and technology
• Collects ongoing performance and progress data to inform instruction and will collaborate with instructors to differentiate learning opportunities for students
• Uses the state standards to create rigorous, objective-driven, multi-disciplinary lessons aligned with curriculum maps
• Identifies in each lesson what thinking skills will be explicitly taught and practiced, what physical, social, or content skills students will be able to do and how students will know if they can do it
• Differentiates for individual students based on their unique learning and behavioral needs so all students are appropriately engaged and challenged
• Ensures students are engaged through activities and technology that accommodate various learning styles, personality styles, and the need for physical movement
• Creates a classroom environment that tolerates error and change
• Responsible for formative and summative assessments used to maximize teacher decision making and student growth opportunities
• Responsible for ensuring listening and speaking skills are naturally incorporated in student presentation of projects
• Enhances questioning skills, critical thinking, collaboration and communication
• Provides learning opportunities for students through multiple modalities
• Provides many and varied opportunities for students to achieve mastery while working to promote achievement by all students
• Develops standard-aligned, measurable, ambitious big goals that will increase student opportunities for achievement; assess and track performance against these goals
• Measures student achievement of, and progress toward, the learning objectives and big goals with formative and summative assessment tools

Essential Functions Continued

• Provides ongoing and timely feedback to students on their progress towards meeting big goals by frequently checking for understanding and listening
• Uses data to reflect on effectiveness of lessons and student achievement progress to improve instruction and personal practices
• Creates a focused environment of fairness and respect that encourages students to take risks and strive to reach goals
• Communicates and enforces high expectations and standards for behavior and academic performance to create a strong culture of achievement and respect
• Establishes, models, practices, and reinforces age appropriate rules and logical consequences; create and consistently use individual behavioral management plans, as needed
• Implements classroom procedures, systems, and routines that provide structure for students and maximize instructional time
• Communicates respectfully and thoughtfully with parent/guardians remaining sensitive to different families’ cultures, values and needs
• Initiates and maintains timely communication with all parents/guardians concerning student progress and to provide a clear picture of the curriculum and high expectations
• Works collaboratively with parents/guardians, families, and other members of the community to involve them in academic activities and to support the success of a diverse student population and to bring in volunteers and additional resources
• Collaborates with colleagues (grade level and school-wide meetings, professional development days, the professional development institute) to continuously improve personal practice, classroom instruction, assessment, and student achievement, as well as the overall goals and mission of the school and the network
• Actively participate in staff meetings and takes ownership over professional growth and development
• Attends quarterly family nights and parent teacher conferences
• Supports school leaders in the hiring process
• Regularly use Microsoft Office 365 for calendaring, email communication, and accessing important documents
• Provides universal supports for students in classrooms using interventions outlined in Exploration’s Multi-Tiered System of Support framework with fidelity
• Serve on a school committee or team over the course of the year
• Fulfill other duties as assigned by School Leaders

Job Type: Full-time