Kindergarten Lead Teacher

About the Employer

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Summary

The Woonsocket Learning Community provides a safe and rigorous learning experience that embraces diversity, culture, and individuality to create productive members of our global community. An individual who supports interdependent student-centered classrooms that promote discourse and collaboration.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Plan curriculum and instruction:
* Draws on content standards from the relevant curriculum frameworks to plan sequential units of study, individual lessons, and learning activities that make learning cumulative and advance students' knowledge of the subject matter.
* Draws on results of formal and informal assessments as well as knowledge of human development to identify teaching strategies and learning activities appropriate to the specific discipline, age, level of English language proficiency, and range of cognitive levels being taught.

Provide differentiated learning experiences that enable all students to make progress.
Design units of instruction that include the criteria established by the district.

Develop well-structured lessons with challenging, measurable objectives and appropriate student engagement strategies.

Designs and administers a variety of informal and formal assessments to measure each student's growth toward local/state standards.
Organizes and analyzes results from various assessments to determine progress, adjust practice, and implement targeted interventions.

Provide regular, specific feedback to students and their families on student performance, including suggestions on how to improve it.

Welcome and encourage every family to become active participants in the classroom and school community.
Utilize two-way communication with families regarding student performance and respond promptly and thoughtfully to messages from families.

Collaborate with colleagues to support improved student learning.
Communicate and consistently enforce specific standards for student work, effort, and behavior.

Utilize rituals and routines that foster and sustain a safe learning environment.
Consistently use practices that are likely to enable students to demonstrate respect for differences.

Regularly reflect on their practice, individually and with colleagues.
Select and request books, supplies, and technologies to support instruction.

Consistently seek out and apply ideas for improving practice from supervisors, colleagues, and professional developmental activities to gain expertise.
Develop strategies, both individually and in collaboration with colleagues, to support the learning and productive behavior of all students.

Perform reasonable professional tasks or duties as may be requested by the principal.

Required Qualifications

Hold a valid Rhode Island teacher certification elementary (K-6) or (Pre-K-3).
Valid Rhode Island All Grades ESL certification or the ability to obtain an emergency certification.
Must have or been able to complete the Right to Read proficiency certificate.