Omar D Blair Charter School Hiring for 1st Grade Teacher Job at Denver, CO Full Time

“Every scholar educated, empowered, and ready for continued success.”

Job Summary:

The Elementary School teacher is responsible for the daily instructional delivery of elementary level curriculum that aligns with the school’s vision, mission, and values while also meeting state and national academic standards. In addition, the Elementary Teacher will have extensive minutes per day of personal planning, common planning, data analysis, and professional development and coaching.

Required Qualifications:

• Valid Colorado Teaching License

• Bachelor’s degree is required and Highly Qualified (HQ) in subject area

• Minimum of 2 years teaching experience preferred

• Experience teaching in an urban public or charter school setting preferred

• Must be able to work flexible hours to meet the needs of students

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop thematic units using the backwards design model in which planning follows these three steps:

1) Identifying standards-aligned desired results (in terms of acquisition, meaning, and transfer)

2) Designing performance tasks/assessments that provide evidence of learning

3) Creating a learning plan

• Understand and apply effective strategies for intervention and differentiation in the classroom

• Embed opportunities for scholar critical-thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, as well as use of technology and digital media, into lesson and unit plans

• Daily integrate reading and writing into every class

• Develop appropriate and healthy relationships with scholars, including advocating for them and celebrating their success

• Develop and maintain open and consistent communication with scholars and their families about their academic progress, health success and needs, parenting success and needs, individual power plans, and high school planning

• Facilitate student presentations of learning to authentic audiences during the last week of each academic quarter

• Provide academic support based on identified needs to scholars during an Eagle Excellence (intervention) class five days per week

• Engage in rigorous professional development to build on both personal and school wide strengths and areas of growth to promote the school’s vision, mission, and values

• Unwavering dedication to Omar D. Blair’s core beliefs, mission and vision, and adopting a “whatever-it-takes” attitude in helping our scholars succeed

• Attend school/community events during and after school

• Performs other duties as assigned by administration

Skills and Knowledge:

• Possess a clear and effective pedagogy that embodies our belief that instruction must be engaging, relevant, rigorous, and provide real world opportunities for scholars to live their learning

• Ability to maintain strong classroom management and hold scholars accountable for upholding school rules, collaboratively-developed norms, and classroom expectations

• Proven at being an active participant in a supportive professional community that fosters respect, trust, risk taking, open-mindedness, flexibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Experienced in operating a demanding but rewarding environment that requires staff to be flexible problem solvers who manage ambiguity and challenges

• Mastery of and enthusiasm for academic subjects including proven track record of high achievement in the classroom

• Evidence of self-motivation and willingness to be a team player

• Working knowledge of proactive communication with colleagues about scholar needs to ensure integrated support

An Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Omar D. Blair to provide educational and employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage and citizen status, age, marital status, disability, prior record of arrest or conviction (except as provided by law), sexual orientation, gender (sex), and to maintain an environment free of discriminatory harassment, including sexual harassment, or retaliation as required by civil rights law.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $50,000.00 – $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Denver, CO 80249: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• Teaching Certification (Required)

Work Location: One location