Early Childhood Homeroom Teacher

Planning and Preparation for Learning:

• Plan lessons and units by following the AISJ curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade-level teachers
• Supports in developing curriculum documentation that reflects horizontal and vertical alignment
• Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiated needs, and scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars' misconceptions and confusion
• Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning
• Demonstrates transdisciplinary and play-based content knowledge in the areas of language, literacy, math, science, social studies, social-emotional, and cognitive learning

Classroom Management:

• Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations.
• Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and builds strong relationships.
• Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year.
• Gets all scholars to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy

Delivery of Instruction:

• Promotes scholar-centered learning through highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars
• Promotes inquiry-based and concept-based learning

Professional Responsibilities:

• Designs each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes.
• Collaborates with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and look at scholarly work.
• Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well.
• Supports scholars with an understanding of their strengths and opportunities for development, setting their goals, and action planning
• Promotes agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership
• Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up:

• Frequently checks for understanding, adjusting teaching, re­ teaching, and following up on the data
• Analyzes and reflects on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs
• Gives scholars a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction.
• Have scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance.
• Help scholars develop as self-assessors and self-adjusters

Family and Community Outreach:

• Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families' cultures and values.
• Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child's ability to reach standards.
• Gives parents clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year.
• Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates parents on good news.
• Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support learning at home.
• Respond promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.

Other Responsibilities:

• Engages with the community in after-school activities
• Engages with the community in open communication
• Supervision duties will be assigned
• After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week)