Substitute Teacher: Science

Foster-Glocester Regional School District is currently accepting applications for a highly effective long term substitute teacher, who wants to teach in a 1:1 technology rich environment to advance learning and teaching in our high-performing high school. In 2020 Ponaganset High School was one of two schools in Rhode Island awarded a $500,000 XQ Super School Implementation Grant to rethink and redesign our high school over then next two years. Ponaganset High School is staffed by a dedicated team committed to advancing learning and teaching in a collaborative, relevant, and personalized 1:1 blended learning environment. Located in scenic Northwest Rhode Island, Ponaganset High School sits on more than 140 acres of a living campus that supports learning in and out of school. Our comprehensive high school has strong academic, art, music, elective, and athletic programs and serves approximately 920 students in grades 9-12. Our students and teachers have the benefit of learning and teaching in a environment that is well resourced with instructional materials. Through sound fiscal management our school district has been able to reallocate resources to meet student and adult needs. We have added numerous courses designed to prepare our students for college and careers. For information about our schools and community please visit our website at www.fg.k12.ri.us. If you are interested in educating the whole child, and collaborating with colleagues as part of a professional learning community, we welcome the opportunity to meet you and learn more about how you could enhance our team. We hope you will become the next member of our learning community. GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES: The teacher works cohesively as a member of a team with staff, colleagues, and administrators to develop, implement, and continuously improve a personalized, rigorous, relevant, and collaborative learning environment supported by technology. The teacher works to ensure the school district graduates globally competitive students proficient with the 21st Century Skills and work habits needed for success in post-secondary education, careers, and life in a global economy. REPRESENTATIONAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Actively participate in and positively support all school and classroom functions needed to achieve the mission of the district and meet the learning needs of students, including, but not limited to, the following: • Serve as a member of a professional learning community to actively provide a collaborative, rigorous, relevant, and personalized education supported by technology that prepares students for college and careers; • Implement learning and teaching practices, school and community supports in accordance with district and school improvement plans and the mission of the district; • Create, implement, and actively support the implementation of blended learning, project and inquiry based learning, and the integration academic content areas which purposefully increases students creativity, higher order thinking skills, collaboration, communication, and engagement; • Implement and support changes to standards-based curriculum, instruction, assessments, school structures, that align, to the extent practical, to: - students college and career interests, - 21st Century Skills and work habits needed for success in a global economy, and - AMLE middle level practices, NEASC Standards, and NESSC Global Best Practices; • Collaboratively create and implement performance tasks, formative and summative assessments aligned to the Common Core and 21st century skills as well as task validation and calibration; • Actively support the implementation of high-interest flexible pathways which prepare students for local and global labor markets and lead to college credit and/or industry certifications; • Disseminate accurate and positive information about the schools’ and district’s goals and initiatives in a variety of print and electronic formats; • Foster partnerships among parents, educators, businesses, higher education, and communities that support learning in and out of school, dual enrollment, online learning, and externships; • Support positively and actively the efficient, effective, and collaborative management of school operations to ensure learning experiences, promote positive discipline practices, and school safety practices advance the mission of the district; • Create learning experiences (including interdisciplinary) using general knowledge that reflects an understanding of the nature of the communities and world in which we live; • Design instruction that addresses the core skills, concepts, and ideas of the disciplines/content areas to help all students meet Rhode Island’s learning standards; • Represent and use differing viewpoints, theories, and methods of inquiry when teaching concepts and encourage students to see, question, and interpret concepts from a variety of perspectives; • Create instructional opportunities that reflect an understanding of how children learn and develop; • Use an understanding of students (e.g., individual interests, prior learning, background, and experiences) to create connections between the subject matter and student experiences; • Seek information about the impact of students’ specific challenges to learning or disabilities on classroom performance, and work with specialists to develop alternative instructional strategies to meet the needs of these students; • Create instructional opportunities to encourage all students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, performance skills, and literacy and numeracy across content areas; • Design lessons that extend beyond factual recall and challenge students to develop higher level cognitive skills and use tasks that engage students in exploration, discovery, and hands-on activities and engage students in generating knowledge, testing hypotheses, and exploring methods of inquiry and standards of evidence; • Create learning groups in which all students learn to work collaboratively and independently; • Communicate clear expectations for achievement that allow all students to take responsibility and advocate for their own learning; • Work collaboratively with colleagues to examine teacher practice, student work and student assessment results with the goal of improving instruction and achievement; • Use appropriate formal and informal assessment strategies with individuals and groups of students to determine the impact of instruction on learning, to provide feedback, and to plan future instruction; • Use assessment results to provide students with timely, helpful, and accurate feedback on their progress toward achievement goals; • Reflect on practice and assume responsibility for own professional development by actively seeking and participating in opportunities to learn and grow as professionals and enhance the instructional core; • Take responsibility for learning about and implementing federal, state, district and school initiatives to improve teaching and learning; • Follow school policy and procedures, respecting the boundaries of professional responsibilities, when working with students, colleagues, and families; • Interact with students, colleagues, parents, and others in a professional manner that is fair and equitable and guided by codes of professional conduct; • Exhibit attributes of reliable attendance, promptness, dependability, and professional ethics; • Use effective communication skills with students, colleagues, families and related agencies (spoken, written and non-verbal); • Performs the functions of the position in accordance with the: RI Professional Teaching Standards; RI Professional Code of Conduct; and all laws, regulations, school district policies, the mission of the district, school-based plans, and administrative directives / priorities / requests; and • Performs other duties as may be assigned and/or necessary to perform the functions of the position. The intent of these posted duties is to provide a representative sample of the types of duties that the district is seeking for this position and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total duties of this position. For a full listing of the duties and responsibilities please review the classroom teacher job description at www.fg.k12.ri.us/jobdescriptions.