REETHS-PUFFER SCHOOLS
5th Grade Teaching Position
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must possess a valid teaching certificate (Elementary Education or appropriate grade-level endorsement)
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- Must be creative thinker, self-motivated, and energetic.
- Must be willing to embrace new teaching styles and systems of organization.
- Must be willing to establish a learning environment with the characteristics of:
- Nurturing
- Active and engaging
- Movement
- Conversational
- Language-Rich
- Base instructional decisions on the goals and needs of individual learners, as well as the class as a whole.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues, school staff, and families.
- Recognition of the diverse needs among students and commitment to differentiation in instructional approach, in order to meet the needs of all students.
- Demonstration of a strong knowledge of subject area being taught.
- Checking for and building of higher-level understanding in students.
- Efficient and effective use of instructional time.
- Establishment and maintenance of strong, appropriate, relationships with students and families.
- Maintenance of exceptional classroom management.
- Planning for and delivery of rigorous content.
- Utilize technology (as appropriate) to support instruction.
- Must be willing to apply knowledge and principles of the developmental nature of young children:
- Cognitive
- Linguistic
- Physical
- Social-Emotional
Deadline to apply: When positions are filled