Job Title: Math Lead Teacher, Grades 6 & 7
Supervisor: Principal
Hours: School Hours. Hiring Manager will discuss specific arrival and departure times.
Compensation: Codman Academy Charter Public School follows a compensation scale based on years of direct experience. 1 year experience (BA) starts at $62,000, and 9 years experience (MA+15) is $104,927.
Description: The Math Lead Teacher, Grades 6 & 7 is responsible for planning, organizing and implementing an appropriate instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourages students to meet and exceed standards for the grade level/course. Responsibilities include (but not limited to):
Planning and Preparation for Learning
- Knowledge - Demonstrates subject area expertise and a cutting-edge grasp of child development and how students learn.
- Standards - Develops a well-honed game plan for the year that is tightly aligned with state standards and assessments.
- Units - Plans all expeditions backwards, aligned with high standards, state assessments, and all Bloom's levels; documents and shares all lessons with supervisor at a minimum of two (2) weeks in advance.
- Assessments - Plans diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to closely monitor student learning.
- Anticipation - Anticipates students' misconceptions and confusions and develops multiple strategies to overcome them.
- Lessons - Designs lessons with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and expedition outcomes.
- Engagement - Designs highly relevant lessons that will motivate all students and engage them in active learning
- Materials - Designs lessons that use an effective mix of high-quality, multicultural learning materials and technology.
- Differentiation - Designs lessons that break down complex tasks and address all learning needs, styles, and interests.
- Environment - Artfully uses room arrangement, materials, and displays to maximize student learning of all material, focusing on learning targets and student work.
Classroom Management
- Expectations - Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing high expectations.
- Relationships - Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all students and builds strong relationships.
- Respect - Wins all students' respect and creates a climate in which disruption of learning is unthinkable.
- Social-emotional - Implements a program that successfully develops positive interactions and social-emotional skills.
- Routines - Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that students maintain them throughout the year.
- Responsibility - Successfully develops students' self-discipline, self-confidence, and a sense of responsibility.
- Repertoire - Has a highly effective discipline repertoire and can capture and hold students' attention any time.
- Efficiency - Skillfully uses coherence, momentum, and transitions so that every minute of the classroom time produces learning.
- Prevention - Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured and nips virtually all discipline problems in the bud.
- Incentives - Gets students to buy into a highly effective system of incentives linked to intrinsic rewards.
Delivery of Instruction
- Expectations - Exudes high expectations and determination and convinces all students that they will master the material.
- Mindset - Actively inculcates a "growth" mindset: take risks, learn from mistakes, through effective effort you can and will achieve at high levels.
- Goals - Shows students exactly what's expected by posting learning targets, essential questions, rubrics, and exemplars.
- Connections - Hooks all students' interest and makes connections into prior knowledge, experience, and reading.
- Clarity - Always presents material clearly and explicitly, with well-chosen examples and vivid and appropriate language.
- Repertoire - Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all students.
- Engagement - Engages all students in focused work in which they are active learners and problem solvers.
- Differentiation - Successfully reaches all students by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding.
- Nimbleness - Deftly adapts lessons and units to exploit teachable moments and correct misunderstandings.
- Application - Consistently has all students summarize and internalize what they learn and apply it to real-life situations.
Monitoring, Assessment and Follow-Up
- Criteria - Posts and reviews clear criteria for proficient work, including rubrics and exemplars, and all students internalize them.
- Diagnosis - Gives students a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction.
- On-the-Spot - Continuously uses a variety of effective methods to check for understanding; immediately unscrambles confusion and clarifies.
- Self-Assessment - Sets ambitious goals with students, continually self-assesses, and takes responsibility for improving performance.
- Recognition - Frequently posts students' work with rubrics and commentary to celebrate progress and motivate direct effort.
- Interims - Works with colleagues to use interim assessment data, fine-tune teaching, re-teach, and help struggling students.
- Tenacity - Relentlessly follows up with struggling students with personal attention (time and support) so they all reach proficiency.
- Support - Makes sure that students who need specialized diagnosis and help receive appropriate services immediately.
- Analysis - Works with colleagues to analyze chart data, draw action conclusions, and leverage student growth.
- Reflection - Constantly reflects on what worked and what didn't to continuously improve instruction.
Family and Community Outreach
- Respect - Shows great sensitivity and respect for family and community culture, values, and beliefs.
- Belief - Shows each parent/guardian an in-depth knowledge of their child and a strong belief they will meet or exceed standards.
- Expectations - Gives parents/guardians clear, user-friendly learning and behavior expectations and exemplars of proficient work.
- Communication - Makes sure that parents/guardians hear positive news about their children first and immediately flags any problems.
- Involving - Frequently involves parents/guardians in supporting and enriching the curriculum for their children as it unfolds.
- Assignments - Assigns highly-engaging assignments, gets close to 100% return, and provides rich feedback.
- Responsiveness - Deals immediately and successfully with parent/guardian concerns and makes the parent/guardian feel welcome at any time.
- Reporting - In conferences, report cards, and informal talks, gives parents/guardians detailed feedback on their children's progress.
- Outreach - Is successful in contacting and working with all parents/guardians, including those who are hard to reach.
- Resources - Successfully enlists classroom volunteers and extra resources from homes and the community to enrich the curriculum.
Professional Responsibilities
- Attendance & Punctuality - Has perfect or near-perfect attendance and punctuality
- Language - In professional contexts, speaks and writes appropriately, succinctly, and eloquently.
- Reliability - Carries out assignments conscientiously and punctually, keeps meticulous records, and is never late.
- Professionalism - Presents as a consummate professional and always observes appropriate boundaries.
- Judgment - Is invariably ethical, honest, and forthright, uses impeccable judgment, and respects confidentiality.
- Above-and-beyond - Is an important member of teacher teams and committees and frequently attends after-school activities.
- Leadership - Frequently contributes valuable ideas and expertise and instills in others a desire to improve students' results.
- Openness - Actively seeks out feedback and suggestions and uses them to improve performance.
- Collaboration - Meets at least weekly with colleagues to plan units, share ideas, and analyze interim assessments.
- Growth - Actively reaches out for new ideas and engages in professional development with colleagues to figure out what works best.
- Administrative Feedback - Informs the administration of any concerns and reaches out for help and suggestions when needed.
Stewardship
- We are crew, not passengers, and we uphold that ideal as we support each other in reaching our shared goals.
- Every adult in our community is a teacher and a role model, and we model and implement EL Education design principles and core practices to the best of our ability in our roles.
- Advance the educational mission of the school by participating in duties and responsibilities consistent with building, upholding and promoting a strong Codman community.
- We actively value and solicit feedback in order to improve performance.
