Middle School Math Teacher

Number of Vacancies: 1

Student Level:

- Middle School
- Licensed Teacher

School Requirements:

- Education Required: Bachelor
- Minimum Teaching Experience: 2 years of teaching experience
- Major: Education or related field
- Required Certificates:- Teaching Credential/License

Job Benefits:
Additional benefits:

- Tuition discounts for up to 2 kids
- Transportation to and from school
- Access to a beach resort
- Medical insurance
- Mobilization allowance upon arriving and exiting KSA (final exit)
- Contract renewal bonus, at the end of the 2-year contract

Job Description:
**Role Overview**

**Responsibilities**:
**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 reflect horizontal and vertical alignment
- Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars’ misconceptions and confusions
- Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning
- Demonstrates content knowledge in the areas of reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and social emotional 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
- (follow up) Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured and nips virtually all discipline problems in the bud.

**Delivery of Instruction**
- Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars.

** 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 scholar work.
- Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well.
- Gets all scholars highly involved in focused work in which they are active learners and problem-solvers.
- Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

**Collaboration**
- Working with colleagues to analyze data for placements and reflect on work (what worked and what did not work)
- Seeking and accepting feedback from colleagues to improve student growth
- Capitalizing on each other’s strengths and working with each other’s areas of growth

**Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up**
- Frequently checks for understanding, adjusting teaching, re-teaching and following-up from 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.
- Has 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.
- Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.

**Other Responsibilities**
- Engage with community in after-school activities
- Engage with community in open communication
- Supervision duties will be assigned
- After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week)