High School Science Teacher 24-25sy - Prescott, United States - Northpoint Expeditionary Learning Academy

Description

Ecology & Physics Science Teacher Requirements:

• Valid and current Arizona teaching certification and driver's license (or ability to obtain prior to start of school)
• Deep understanding of high school science concepts instructional methodology
• Willingness to collaborate with colleagues in planning and implementing

investigations in other academic areas as needed

• Competence with students and curriculum for Ecology & Physics
• Willingness to differentiate instruction and provide accommodations in a fully inclusive setting
• Collaborate in the design, implementation, and evaluation of "intensives" (tenday courses offered at the end of academic semesters)
• Arrange and facilitate wellplanned fieldwork experiences to support expeditions

Preferred Attributes:

• Teaching experience at the high school level in an EL or similar program
• Experience integrating literacy instruction to support students' writing about math understanding
• Experience pulling in outside experts in a particular field to support particular studies
• Experience using fieldwork to support the content curriculum
• Experience integrating the use of technology into the teaching of science
• Master Degree in related field preferred

Design Overview

Expeditionary Learning (EL) is a comprehensive school reform and school development model that emphasizes high achievement through active learning, character growth, and teamwork.

The five Expeditionary Learning core practices—learning expeditions, active pedagogy, school culture and character, leadership and school improvement, and structures—work in concert and support one another to promote high achievement.

Rigorous investigation of deep content, the creation of authentic products for an authentic audience, and effective instructional practices, character growth and teamwork, are all part of EL Education.

What follows are brief descriptions of the core practices, and then the job responsibilities associated with each. Job requirements specific to each curricular focus or position are listed at the beginning of the document. All staff are responsible for each of these elements as it pertains to their job duties. This document is provided as an appendix to the Employee Handbook.

Learning Expeditions

In Expeditionary Learning Schools, learning expeditions are the primary way of organizing curricula.

Learning expeditions feature linked projects that require students to construct deep understandings and skills and to create products for real audiences.

Correlating Job Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and evaluate expeditions as the primary means of organizing curriculum; expeditions must align with district and state standards, the school curriculum map, as well as portfolio, passage and graduation requirements
• Write detailed expedition documents including: compelling topics, indepth investigations and detailed project plans, including plans for integrating literacy instruction
• Develop and use rubrics to assess student work throughout the expedition
• Support students in the development of their portfolios and preparation for passage and graduation presentations, as well as public exhibitions of work
• Attend any available Expeditionary Learning institutes or training as offered and scheduled

Active Pedagogy

Teaching and learning are active and engaging in Expeditionary Learning classrooms.

Effective instructional practices promote equity and high expectations:

they make the content of expeditions come alive, ensure that all students think and participate, and allow the teacher to know all students and their thinking well.

Knowledge of each student's level of understanding and participation leads teachers to differentiate instruction.

Correlating Job Responsibilities:

• Employ a range of effective instructional practices (active pedagogy) to give students the support they need to complete projects and meet standards
• Develop lesson plans that ensure that instruction is paced well, encourages all students to think, engages all students in productive work throughout the class period, and ensures smooth classroom management
• Use flexible groups based on ongoing assessment to confer with students and provide differentiated instruction
• Work with students to create assessment criteria that are connected to standards, portfolio, passage and graduation requirements, and help students understand, reflect on and take responsibility for their learning

Culture and Character

An Expeditionary Learning school culture is developed and sustained through practices that bring the community together, promote shared understandings, and encourage all community members to become crew, not passengers.

Physical and emotional safety, respect and courtesy, and a disciplined environment characterize the climate in an Expeditionary Learning school. Classrooms are managed through the practices of the Discovery Program and measured using the Habits of Work. Teachers foster student c