Job Description
Job Description
Job Title : Art Teacher
Supervisor : Principal or designee
Start Date : August 2024 - June 2025 Duration : 11 months
Hours : Monday through Friday; LMS 8 : 00am-4 : 45pm
Description : The Art teacher is responsible for planning, organizing, and implementing an appropriate instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourages students to meet and exceed grade level / course standards K1-8.
Qualifications :
We are looking for educators who have...
a passion for Codman’s mission and EL Education philosophy, which focuses on experiential learning and social justice
successful teaching experience in an urban public school, grades K1-8
experience leading students to significant academic gains
an abiding sense of urgency
extensive content knowledge
experience working with special needs students
classroom management expertise
a love for collaborative curriculum development
the desire to grow as an educator and the willingness to participate in meaningful and challenging professional development
Bachelor’s degree
SEI endorsement
MTELs in required subject
Responsibilities include (but not limited to) :
Planning and Preparation for Learning
Knowledge - Demonstrates subject area expertise and a cutting-edge grasp of child development and how students learn.
Standards - Develops a well-honed game plan for the year that is tightly aligned with state standards and assessments.
Units - Plans all expeditions backwards, aligned with high standards, state assessments, and all Bloom’s levels; documents and shares all lessons with supervisor at a minimum of two (2) weeks in advance.
Assessments - Plans diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to closely monitor student learning.
Anticipation - Anticipates students’ misconceptions and confusions and develops multiple strategies to overcome them.
Lessons - Designs lessons with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and expedition outcomes.
Engagement - Designs highly relevant lessons that will motivate all students and engage them in active learning
Materials - Designs lessons that use an effective mix of high-quality, multicultural learning materials and technology.
Differentiation - Designs lessons that break down complex tasks and address all learning needs, styles, and interests.
Environment - Artfully uses room arrangement, materials, and displays to maximize student learning of all material, focusing on learning targets and student work.
Classroom Management
Expectations - Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing high expectations.
Relationships - Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all students and builds strong relationships.
Respect - Wins all students’ respect and creates a climate in which disruption of learning is unthinkable.
Social-emotional - Implements a program that successfully develops positive interactions and social-emotional skills.
Routines - Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that students maintain them throughout the year.
Responsibility - Successfully develops students’ self-discipline, self-confidence, and a sense of responsibility.
Repertoire - Has a highly effective discipline repertoire and can capture and hold students’ attention any time.
Efficiency - Skillfully uses coherence, momentum, and transitions so that every minute of the classroom time produces learning.
Prevention - Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured and nips virtually all discipline problems in the bud.
Incentives - Gets students to buy into a highly effective system of incentives linked to intrinsic rewards.
Delivery of Instruction
Expectations - Exudes high expectations and determination and convinces all students that they will master the material.
Mindset - Actively inculcates a growth mindset : take risks, learn from mistakes, through effective effort you can and will achieve at high levels.
Goals - Shows students exactly what’s expected by posting learning targets, essential questions, rubrics, and exemplars.
Connections - Hooks all students’ interest and makes connections into prior knowledge, experience, and reading.
Clarity - Always presents material clearly and explicitly, with well-chosen examples and vivid and appropriate language.
Repertoire - Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all students.
Engagement - Engages all students in focused work in which they are active learners and problem solvers.
Differentiation - Successfully reaches all students by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding.
Nimbleness - Deftly adapts lessons and units to exploit teachable moments and correct misunderstandings.
Application - Consistently has all students summarize and internalize what they learn and apply it to real-life situations.
Monitoring, Assessment and Follow-Up
Criteria - Posts and reviews clear criteria for proficient work, including rubrics and examples, and all students internalize them.
Diagnosis - Gives students a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction.
On-the-Spot - Continuously uses a variety of effective methods to check for understanding; immediately unscrambles confusion and clarifies.
Self-Assessment - Sets ambitious goals with students, continually self-assesses, and takes responsibility for improving performance.
Recognition - Frequently posts students’ work with rubrics and commentary to celebrate progress and motivate direct effort.
Interims - Works with colleagues to use interim assessment data, fine-tune teaching, re-teach, and help struggling students.
Tenacity - Relentlessly follows up with struggling students with personal attention (time and support) so they all reach proficiency.
Support - Makes sure that students who need specialized diagnosis and help receive appropriate services immediately.
Analysis - Works with colleagues to analyze chart data, draw action conclusions, and leverage student growth.
Reflection - Constantly reflects on what worked and what didn’t to continuously improve instruction.
Family and Community Outreach
Respect - Shows great sensitivity and respect for family and community culture, values, and beliefs.
Belief - Shows each parent / guardian an in-depth knowledge of their child and a strong belief they will meet or exceed standards.
Expectations - Gives parents / guardians clear, user-friendly learning and behavior expectations and exemplars of proficient work.
Communication - Makes sure that parents / guardians hear positive news about their children first and immediately flags any problems.
Involving - Frequently involves parents / guardians in supporting and enriching the curriculum for their children as it unfolds.
Assignments - Assigns highly-engaging assignments, gets close to 100% return, and provides rich feedback.
Responsiveness - Deals immediately and successfully with parent / guardian concerns and makes the parent / guardian feel welcome at any time.
Reporting - In conferences, report cards, and informal talks, gives parents / guardians detailed feedback on their children’s progress.
Outreach - Is successful in contacting and working with all parents / guardians, including those who are hard to reach.
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