About this role
Job title: Elementary School Teacher
About the Role The Elementary School Teacher is a highly qualified, state-certified educator responsible for delivering course content in an online environment. You will provide instruction, support, and guidance, monitor student progress via the Stride K12 learning management system, and collaborate with families to drive student success. This role typically works from home with occasional travel to school events and testing.
What You'll Do
- Provides rich and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences for students
- Commitment to personalizing learning for all students
- Demonstrates belief in all students’ ability to succeed and meet high expectations
- Differentiates instruction based on student level of mastery
- Augments course content according to prescribed policies and procedures using appropriate asynchronous and synchronous tools under guidance from principal and coach
- Maintains grade book ensuring student academic integrity, makes student placement and promotion decisions, and alerts administrators to concerns about student performance and progress
- Prepares students for high stakes standardized tests
- Understands that a primary responsibility is to establish and maintain positive rapport with families and regularly communicates with and responds to students and learning coaches/parents in a timely manner
- Supports learning coaches/parents with student curricular and instructional issues, as well as basic troubleshooting in a virtual classroom environment that is in line with academy policies and procedures
- Travels as required (on average once per month and/or approximately 20% of the time) for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and as required by school
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree
- Active state teaching license
- Ability to clear required background check
- Experience with proposed age group
- Experience supporting adults and children in the use of technology
- Experience teaching in an online (virtual) and/or brick-and-mortar environment
- Experience with online learning platforms
- Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions
- Receptive to receiving coaching regularly with administrators and teacher trainers
- Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint
- Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies and teaching platforms
- Ability to maintain teacher certification/professional development hours and fluency in K12 systems, programs and curriculum
Nice to Have
- Experience with the proposed age group
- Experience supporting both adults and children in the use of technology
- Experience teaching in online and/or brick-and-mortar environments
- Experience with online learning platforms
- Ability to collaborate with other teachers to interpret and use data to drive instruction
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint (listed as a capability)
- Willingness to learn new technologies and teaching platforms