Classroom Teacher - Kennebunk, United States - Maine Regional School Unit 21

Maine Regional School Unit 21

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Kennebunk, United States

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Description

CLASSROOM TEACHER - PHYSICAL EDUCATION - MSK

This position is scheduled to begin in August 2024._

RSU 21 serves 600 employees, 2400 students across three communities and has an annual budget of $52 million.

As a Classroom Teacher, you will have an opportunity to serve as a dynamic leader, effective educator, and inspirational and impactful influence within your classroom.

You will be expected to deliver measurable results through high-quality and intentional instructional planning, curriculum design, and curriculum delivery to improve student outcomes and transform students' lives.

As a Classroom Teacher you will:

Establish expectations, routines, and procedures to provide a respectful, safe, positive, studentcentered environment that maximizes opportunities for student learning
Engage students in learning by using a variety of instructional strategies to meet individual learning goals and needs
Set ambitious goals; gather, analyze, and use relevant data to measure student progress, guide instructional planning and delivery, and provide timely feedback to students, parents, and stakeholders
Collaborate with colleagues to contribute to overall district effectiveness; and engage in professional reflection and growth that results in improved instructional practice and student learning
Serve as a leader in our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the district, school, classroom and curriculum levels
View leadership, professionalism, and effective communication as vital components of classroom teaching

Responsibilities:

Curriculum and Planning

Identify and align lesson objectives to approved standardsbased curriculum using student learning data and indepth, individualized student knowledge to guide planning and differentiated instruction
Develop appropriate long

- and short-range plans; adapt plans when needed based on real-time student performance and ongoing formative assessment results

Incorporate educational technology into plans strategically and selectively to enhance student learning and instructional effectiveness

Classroom Culture and Environment

Establish and maintain effective behavioral and instructional routines and procedures that maximize student learning time while creating and maintaining a safe physical setting
Establish a climate of trust, collaboration, and teamwork by being fair, caring, respectful, inclusive, and enthusiastic
Promote respectful interactions that challenge and engage all students within the learning environment
Create an environment that is academically appropriate, stimulating, and challenging; encourages student participation, inquiry, and intellectual risktaking; and treats learning time as a precious commodity
Employ a balance of effective verbal, nonverbal, written, and digital communication tools to foster a positive, culturally inclusive learning environment that features and celebrates diverse voices and perspectives

Instructional Delivery

Engage and maintain students in active, scaffolded, and rigorous learning that meets students where they are while building upon their existing knowledge and skills; differentiate and pace instruction to meet current and evolving students' needs; address multiple intelligences and multiple learning styles
Employ a variety of effective highimpact instructional strategies that develop students' higherlevel and critical thinking skills
Maintain and communicate clear learning objectives, reinforce learning goals consistently throughout the lesson, communicate content clearly, and check for understanding ongoing through informal checks, and regular use of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments

Data-driven and Goal-Based Academics Strategy

Ensure that instructional decisionmaking is driven by the analysis of comprehensive, relevant, accurate, and uptodate student data
Set, communicate, track, and invest students in both short

- and long-term goals that will result in meaningful student growth

Involve students in setting learning goals and monitoring their own databased progress
Manage with a goalsbased approach; create and maintain a classroom culture of ongoing accountability checks to gauge progress towards ambitious datadriven goals
Track outcomes by student subgroups, with a particular focus on minimizing achievement gaps by various identities

Collaboration and Continuous Learning

Commit to and develop a deep, functional, and genuine collaborative relationship with colleagues to deepen collective instructional impact
Seek and share feedback and input to ensure collaboration between shared grade teams and across grades, departments, disciplines and schools
Commit to continuous learning and improvement for self, students, school, and district by identifying and scaling successful approaches, and by altering and discontinuing ineffective approaches
Incorporate learning from formal and informal professi