
Science Teacher
Duties
Family and Community Connector
- Believe families are critical partners in student success
- Proactively build trusting partnerships through biweekly phone calls and frequent texts or emails
- Participate in 4-5 community events during the year
Model the Behaviors We Expect of Scholars
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Model our core values at all times by:
- Reflecting on how my own experiences and identity may impact my expectations of myself and our community
- Seeing the best in our colleagues and scholars
- Challenging myself and those around me to be our best selves
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Use conflicts as opportunities to strengthen relationships by:
- Speaking to the person, not about the person
- Speaking from my heart while using my head.
Lead a Pride (Advisory)
- Use the Compass Model to to engage in the same Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) we do with scholars by:
- Completing several pieces of independent self-exploration work to share in Staff Circles over the course of the year.
- Actively participate in weekly Staff Circles.
- Lead a daily Pride for scholars (30 min Mon-Thurs, 60 min on Fri)
- Weekly social/emotional lessons
- Daily academic and SEL coaching
- Facilitate Scholar Circles on Fridays
Share Your Passion for Learning with Our Scholars
- Take responsibility for students’ academic engagement, growth, and achievement
- Teach 4 daily classes of up to 25 scholars
- Engage in weekly observation/feedback meetings
- Use daily formative assessments to drive collaborative planning
- Adapt standards-aligned curriculum to meet student needs, especially for Exceptional Learners and English Language Learners
Other Duties
- Perform other duties as assigned, including reasonable physical demands expected from the working environment of a school
Qualifications
- Minimum of two years of teaching experience
- Valid Missouri Teacher Certification
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
- Conversational or better knowledge of a world language is preferred but not required, especially Arabic, Burmese, French, Karen, Kinyarwanda, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, or Vietnamese.