This opening calls for specific teaching qualifications set by the school.
CalWest’s client school in the Greater Santa Cruz county area seeks a 1st Grade Teacher for an Immediate Opening and a Full-time position beginning in 2024 – 2025.
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
- Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited institution
- California credentials, preferred
- Relevant teaching experience with a minimum of two years preferred
- Strong skills with curriculum design, initiative, follow-through, organization, collaboration, and communication.
Responsibilities
- Model personal standards of excellence: warmth, clarity of expectations, consistency and accountability.
- Apply a wide range of highly effective approaches to teaching, balancing enduring and innovative best practices.
- Form supportive and responsive relationships with students and families.
- Differentiate instruction to challenge every learner. Build a strong, positive classroom community in which students advocate for themselves and others.
- Provide constructive, timely, specific feedback that fosters a growth mindset.
- Collaborate with colleagues to carry forward major project initiatives in the cross-disciplinary literacies as well as enhance the students’ overall experience.
- Observe, evaluate, encourage and monitor students’ academic and social development and progress.
- Communicate proactively and regularly with students, parents, and colleagues regarding students’ progress and needs.
Salary Range
$ 45,000 – $ 80,000
