Departmental Teacher (Math, Science, English, or History)

Telra Institute is a charter school in Charlotte, NC focused on advanced learning. We are assembling a high-performing team to work in a novel educational model with a culture that values education and esteems educators. Candidates will find a supportive environment and opportunities to excel professionally, intellectually, and financially. As a sought-after employer, we prize top talent that wants to work with other top talent.

Telra is growing and we are looking for specialist positions to teach students in grades 4-10 with opportunities to teach content from upper elementary level up to college level). Teachers are responsible for driving learning and teaching within their own class and within the grade while collaboratively working with their department. Part time and hybrid opportunities available.

Who are we looking for?

• Motivators who bring joy, love, and laughter to teachers and students.
• Reflective practitioners who lead with culture and drive with data to personalize learning for all students.
• Responsive leaders of students.
• Problem solvers who see solutions to problems.
• Data geeks who analyze data and loop back to next steps.
• Communicators who value the triad of student, school, and family and go above and beyond to work in partnership.
• Lifelong learners eager to take on the challenge of building a young school and comfortable working in a fast-paced culture.

What does Telra offer?

Explicit, systematic, cumulative approach to developing teachers through:

• Opportunity to work with an empowered, focused, and nimble leadership and instructional leadership team with a novel “no limits” vision for public education.
• Community of students and parents who are “bought in” to a culture of learning and show a strong appreciation for education.
• Coaching and professional development to hone your direct instructional skills, content knowledge, and technical proficiency.
• A strong school culture of improvement with a high-frequency cycle of observation-feedback-coaching plus data-driven instruction.
• Professional development on gifted education, differentiation through Personal Learning Pathways, collaborative teaching, and Telra’s unique curriculum and assessment model.

Essential Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with Grade Level or Department team
• Attend and participate in weekly/monthly staff meetings
• Teach whole-class and lead smaller group instruction using a knowledge-rich, conceptual accelerated curriculum.
• Inspire intellectual curiosity and love of learning that results in all students exceeding a years’ worth of academic growth.
• Collaborate and use data to create Personal Learning Pathways for students, and continually monitor progress towards targets, adjusting instruction as required.
• Work collaboratively across grades and within grade levels to teach students of a variety of ages/grades and abilities throughout the day.
• Actively participate in professional development with Instructional Leadership Team including practicing instructional delivery with peers prior to delivery with students, real time feedback during instruction, analysis of data to monitor student Personal Learning Pathways
• Be an active participant in creating and maintaining a positive school culture for colleagues, students and families.
• Use regular ‘touch points’ to foster and maintain relationships with students, and parents, to leverage accelerated academic outcomes.
• Be an active participant in a new, exciting team that removes glass ceilings and raises the floor of attainment.

Education and Qualifications

• Required
• Bachelor’s degree in Education or another field relevant to the teaching subject (e.g., engineering degree for a math teacher)
• High drive and passion for working with students, being part of an exciting new approach to accelerating learning for all students
• The motivation to seek out new learning opportunities to grow and to share learning with peers
• Preferred
• Initial or continuing professional license, and/or desire to obtain one
• Previous classroom experience as a teacher, TA, or (for early tenure teachers) as a student teacher

Characteristics and capabilities of an ideal applicant

• Attitude

• Demonstrate knowledge about and passion for advanced learners and their education (in gifted programs or other rigorous courses of study)
• Be humble and open to innovate in educational delivery with a commitment to continuous improvement
• Commit to a culture of teamwork, transparency, high expectations
• Have an attitude that is positive, thoughtful, passionate, articulate, motivating, and empowering with students and team members
• Be a highly collaborative, results-oriented, adaptable, and problem-solving self-starter

• Professionalism

• Demonstrate comfort with multi-tasking and energizing a team to execute
• Display excellent written and verbal communication skills with students, colleagues, and other stakeholders
• Be responsive and able to set and achieve audacious goals
• Have high standards of professionalism for self and others

• Technical literacy

• Be computer savvy, with proficiency in the Microsoft suite
• Be comfortable using technology for data analysis, instruction, and collaboration