ES PE Teacher

Role Overview 

PE teachers within international schools take on a unique role. They not only embody best practices within their field, they also promote and extend extracurricular offerings to students within the school. ­

Teachers in ES 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 

Coaching of Extracurricular Sports teams

As a PE Teacher, you are familiar with the most up-to-date rules of the game, and use best practices when executing training sessions. As a PE teacher, you’re familiar with the strength and weaknesses of our athletes. Like any international school, PE teachers are responsible of coaching an extracurricular sport for one season during the school year.

Those responsibilities include:

·        Working with the athletic director to identify a proper sport, age level and encourage scholars to develop their skills in after-school sports programs.

·        Coaching an extracurricular sport for one season. This is defined as a team with several practices, tournaments, and travel outside of school hours

·        Promoting this sport among students within the school.  

PE Teachers will be receiving all coaching stipends and travel per diems that are granted by the school

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

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

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)