Early Childhood Homeroom Teacher

Planning and Preparation for Learning:

• Plan lessons and units by following the AISJ curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade-level teachers.
• Support in developing curriculum documentation that reflects horizontal and vertical alignment.
• Demonstrate planning with consideration of differentiated needs, scholar engagement, and anticipate scholars' misconceptions and confusion.
• Demonstrate a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning.
• Demonstrate transdisciplinary and play-based content knowledge in the areas of language, literacy, math, science, social studies, social-emotional, and cognitive learning.

Classroom Management:

• Be direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations.
• Show warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and build strong relationships.
• Successfully inculcate class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year.
• Encourage all scholars to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy.

Delivery of Instruction:

• Promote scholar-centered learning through highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars.
• Promote inquiry-based and concept-based learning.

Professional Responsibilities:

• Design each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes.
• Collaborate with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and review scholarly work.
• Seek out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implement them well.
• Support scholars with an understanding of their strengths and opportunities for development, setting their goals and action planning.
• Promote agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership.
• Successfully reach all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding.

Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up:

• Frequently check for understanding, adjusting teaching, re-teaching, and following up on the data.
• Analyze and reflect on collected data to continuously ensure lesson and unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs.
• Provide scholars with a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and use the information to fine-tune instruction.
• Help scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance.
• Assist scholars in developing as self-assessors and self-adjusters.

Family and Community Outreach:

• Communicate respectfully with parents and be sensitive to different families' cultures and values.
• Show parents a genuine interest and belief in each child's ability to reach standards.
• Provide parents with clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year.
• Promptly inform parents of behavior and learning problems, and also update parents on good news.
• Update parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggest ways to support learning at home.
• Respond promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.

Other Responsibilities:

• Engage with the community in after-school activities.
• Engage with the community in open communication.
• Supervision duties will be assigned.
• Participate in After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week).

Specific Qualifications Required for this Role:

• Teaching Credential/License.
• Other Certification.