This opening calls for specific teaching qualifications set by the school.
CalWest’s partner school in the Greater San Francisco area is seeking a Middle School Math Teacher to begin in August 2023.
CalWest Required Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s Degree and/or other educational requirements listed on the job description
- Requisite skills commensurate with the position
- A reasonable commuting distance to the CalWest client school, or a willingness to relocate
- Authorization to live and work in the United States
Client School Preferred Qualifications
- Other specialized credentials (Ed Specialists, BCLAD, National Board Certified…)
- Demonstrated success in inquiry-based instruction
- Experience working in a new program and/or with co-teaching
- Familiarity with a variety of holistic assessment strategies – for example, exposition, performance, project-based, standardized, etc.
- Bilingual
Responsibilities
- Develop yearly scope and sequence for content areas aligned to Common Core State Standards
- Build weekly and daily lesson plans that align to Common Core State Standards and meet individualized learning goals
- Collaboratively build integrated inquiry arcs (10-12 weeks) with grade level team which integrate content
- Hold and meet high expectations for each student’s learning and social emotional development goals, modeling equity practices
- Create, monitor, and adjust Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs), ensuring all students have ambitious and appropriate academic and social-emotional learning goals
- Collaborate with team, manager, and learning specialists to create and sustain an inclusive environment; partner in the development and support of IEP and ELL goals; continue to improve knowledge and implementation of SPED and EL best practices
- Provide individual and small group instruction to meet the differentiated needs of all students
- Assess student progress consistently through a variety of holistic & standardized approaches
- Use data to drive instructional strategies and meet student needs
- Use a variety of research-based classroom management strategies to support all students
- Teach advisory group with a focus on socio-emotional learning
- Model a learning environment that celebrates diversity, practices equity, and promotes safety, support and joy
- Partner with families to develop student goals and strengthen home-school connections
- Build a learning environment in which every member of the community belongs
- Strive to live out our school values of community, action, and justice in all that you do and have fun in the process
- Commit to constant professional and personal growth
- Collaborate radically with grade level teammates and other members of the teaching and learning community
- Document, reflect, and share your pedagogy and insights with colleagues, visiting educators and the community broadly
Salary Range
$ 70,000 – $ 105,000