Early Childhood Teacher

ROLE OVERVIEW

ECE 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 differentiated needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars' misconceptions and confusions

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

•  Demonstrates transdisciplinary and play-based content knowledge in the areas of language, literacy, math, science, social studies, social-emotional, and cognitive 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

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.