Kindergarten Teacher

Job Description: Kindergarten Teacher

Job Goal:

The successful candidate will hold at minimum a Bachelor’s Degree and certification as appropriate.

All teachers will be required to provide a copy of a valid New Jersey Certificate before employment is offered.

Applicants must demonstrate cultural sensitivity, ability to communicate with parents and students, have mastery of subject matter content, hold high expectations of students and possess basic understanding of child development.

Teachers must be committed to the school design and philosophy.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in the assigned subject(s), as evidenced by personal skills and knowledge, an undergraduate major or minor or graduate degree in the assigned subject or direct subject-area teaching experience.
• Possess valid New Jersey Teaching Certification (Alternate Route candidates will be considered) and appropriate subject matter certification if the school configuration progresses into a content area configuration.
• Dual certification in special education is desirable.
• All teaching staff will meet the Highly Qualified Teacher Status as defined in NCLB.
• Successful teaching experience in a classroom setting.
• Demonstrated oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to engage the interest of young people.
• Evidence of flexibility and sense of humor.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a diverse group of children.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with parents.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a team member.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate student assessments.
• Demonstrated willingness to be held accountable for student academic achievement.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Adhere to the Compass Academy Charter School mission and educational philosophy.
• Participate in ongoing professional development including but not limited to expanding expertise in the Let Me Learn Process®, remaining current with regard to education literature, maintaining and enriching personal expertise in all assigned subject areas and seeking opportunities for curricular enrichment that are outside of the classroom as well as within it. This may include inviting specialists and/or experts in to visit/teach students.
• Develop lesson plans that ensure the attainment of NJSLS and the additional specific grade-by-grade level benchmarks for all subjects.
• Facilitate differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all students by developing long and short-term planning addressing the needs of individual students based on their personal learning technology.
• Develop and use a variety of assessments (e.g., quizzes, rubrics, written work, performance and projects) that incorporate personal strategies.
• Measure and report on students’ progress towards the school’s exit outcomes, including skills and content knowledge as well as personal growth in their intentional use of learning strategies.
• Prepare students adequately for all required assessments by the use of decoding, metacognition, and personalized strategies.
• Keep an accounting of all records for students, updating as needed.

Job Types: Contract, Full-time

Benefits:

• Health insurance

Grade levels:

• Kindergarten

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

School subjects:

• Math
• Reading

School type:

• Charter school

Work Location: In person