Teacher: 1st Grade - Baltimore, United States - Southwest Baltimore Charter School

Description

Teacher Job Description

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The Vision of Southwest Baltimore Charter School (SBCS) is to produce thinkers ready to navigate our world.

The Mission of SBCS is to create extraordinary learning experiences that inspire the thoughtful, courageous, compassionate citizen in every child.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Planning Effective Lessons

• Backmap 14 weeklong, standardsbased Learning Expeditions.
• Plan and create high quality products with students to be shared at biannual

Celebration of Learning.

• Attend to "flow" by carefully crafting a beginning, middle, and end of lesson.
• Name clear learning targets.
• Scaffold instruction.
• Embed differentiation strategies within lessons.
• Continually strive to master multiple EL lesson formats, including Workshop

Model, Discovery-Based Lessons, Protocol-Based Lessons.

• Utilize other lesson formats as appropriate, including lecture, video, work

sessions, labs and games.

• Make decisions about which practices to use during lessons based on close

knowledge of individual students.

• Employ strategies to ignite student curiosity and track student understanding.
• Maximize opportunities for student voice, critical thinking and leadership.

Delivering Effective Lessons

• Engage students in productive work throughout the class time.
• Create purpose and build curiosity for students.
• Create a climate that makes classroom management smooth.
• Promote critical thinking by asking students to make connection, perceive

patterns and relationships, understand diverse perspectives, supply evidence for

inferences and conclusions, and generalize to the big ideas.

• Use protocols, models, and structures that promote equity and high expectations,

such as assessments _for_ and _of_ learning.


Differentiating Instruction

• Examine data regularly to determine what students need.
• Proactively plan to meet students' varied needs based upon ongoing

assessment.

• Utilize flexible groups of students and design respectful tasks that allow for

different approaches to the same goals.

• Build a culture that honor diverse needs and holds all students accountable to

the same long-term learning targets.

• Collaborate with special educator.
• Write IEP Progress Reports and attend IEP meetings.

Instructional Integration and Expansion

• Use all available opportunities to integrate all content areas into instruction,

including reading, writing, math, the arts, and fitness/wellness.

• Utilize fieldwork experiences and different venues (e.g. the outdoor world) to

inspire and engage all learners.

• Invite experts to collaborate on Expedition products and learning.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION DESIRED

• Experience with EL Education.
• Two or more years teaching experience.
• Bachelor's Degree required.

OTHER INFORMATION

• Position is a 10 month position.
• Salary as negotiated by BCPSS.

PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF SBCS
SBCS provides an engaging arts-infused curriculum with an emphasis on developing student thinking, creativity, and leadership. SBCS focuses on the whole child, recognizing the importance of character education. We strive to meet the social-emotional needs of children while helping them achieve academic excellence.

SBCS is a teacher-led school where staff committees and a school leadership structure foster the development and implementation of many decisions throughout the school.

Collaboration, consensus decision-making and dialogue are essential practices in our school. We seek employees who can thrive in a collective leadership environment. All staff members are part of a community of learners.

We work together on behalf of students to improve the school's program, share expertise, build knowledge in our disciplines and model collaborative learning.

Staff culture is characterized by trust and respectful collegiality. Teachers focus on solutions free of judgment, blame, and defensiveness and support each other in improving their practice.

School leaders, teachers and students join together to maintain a school culture characterized by self -discipline, compassion, collaboration, and joy in learning.

All applicants for all positions must understand and embrace SBCS's approach to learning and leading, which is rooted in the tenets of EL Education.

• We champion a positive student culture schoolwide by devoting time and attention to developing and maintaining traditions, systems, and structures necessary to support school culture.
• We celebrate and define the values of EL through our daily words and actions, displays and materials related to the school vision, through community meetings, and through public events.
• We model and promote EL traditions such as opening readings, teambuilding activities, and staff and student recognition for achievement and acts of character to build and sustain both staff culture and wholeschool culture.
• We take responsibility for all students, and act proactively to ensure that