Elementary Teacher

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and enrich their expertise in all assigned subject areas;
• Develop lesson plans that ensure the attainment of state learning standards, Common Core Standards, and the additional specific grade-by-grade learning standards set forth in the charter;
• Coordinate lesson plans with other teachers to maximize possibilities for teaching similar topics in the same general time frame, thus reinforcing student knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis;
• Provide direct and indirect instruction;
• Long and short-term planning addressing individual needs of students;
• Prepare students adequately for all required assessments;
• Evaluate students’ progress;
• Prepare at least quarterly individual student achievement reports for parents;
• Provide an inviting, exciting, innovative, learning environment;
• Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management;
• Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff;
• Serve as an advisor to students, including organizing advisory groups, overseeing the academic and behavioral progress;
• Perform other duties, as deemed appropriate by the principal.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in elementary education, as evidenced by personal skills and knowledge, an undergraduate major or minor or graduate degree, or direct subject-area teaching experience;
• If not covered by any of the exemptions provided under South Carolina’s charter school law, possess any required state teaching certification and meet any other applicable credentialing requirements;
• Demonstrated communication skills;
• Demonstrated ability and experience to engage the interest of school-age children;
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse children, including those with special needs;
• Teaching experience in a public or private school, preferably in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and/Math setting;
• Demonstrated ability to work well with parents;
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a team member;
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate tests and measurements of achievement;
• Demonstrated willingness to be held accountable for student results.

Salary:

Commensurate with experience.

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