3-5 Assistant Teacher

Competency Profile

• Celebrates diversity and is proactively inclusive of all racial, cultural, socio-economic, religious, and gender groups.
• Embraces the four domains of
• Responsive
• Classroom: Engaging Academics, Positive Community, Effective Management, and Developmentally Responsive Teaching.
• Exhibits self-awareness and self-monitoring in identifying and solving student, curricular, and school problems. At the same time, the Assistant Teacher understands the vision, the mission, the strategic plan, and all policies of the school and, when questions or concerns arise, raises them with appropriate colleagues and supervisors.
• Supports the School and its Leadership Team.
• Demonstrates effective written and oral communication skills.
• Differentiates instruction to meet the needs of all learners.
• Fosters collaboration among team to build curricula and ensure others are well informed of changes, initiatives, and progress.
• Embraces feedback and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Displays attitudes and actions that contribute to a healthy and collegial teacher culture.
• Supports and actively promotes the organization. Positively reflects the organization’s core values and addresses actions that don’t align with those values.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience working with elementary aged children.
• Knowledge of Project-based learning (PBL), outdoor education, inquiry-based and student-centered learning preferred.
• Ability to enthusiastically work both indoors and outdoors in various weather conditions including rain, cold, heat, etc. and on various surfaces, some inclined, including grass, dirt, trails, decking, pavement, and concrete.
• Ability to perform sustained standing and walking, navigating stairs, kneeling, lifting, and carrying up to 20 lbs., monitoring children and the immediate environment visibly and audibly and the ability to give audible instructions that can be understood by English speakers in a loud environment.
• Commitment to ongoing learning including participating in at least eight hours of summer professional development such as a conference, book or research on a topic approved by the Principal.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and Teams and Google.