Grade 5 Teacher

Summary

To create a learning environment supported by a positive instructionally focused school climate and provide intellectually and emotionally safe, engaging classroom communities growing towards a culture personalized and co-constructed with students and adults to support the success of each and every learner.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create Emotionally, Intellectually, and Physically Safe Environments
• Create positive relationships that are kind, caring, and respectful
• Nurture self-awareness, identity development, and sense of purpose
• Emphasize effort, supported risk-taking, and strategies for emotional growth
• Support safe and engaged interactions with co-created procedures, routines, and classroom design
• Encourage developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant strategies for the expression of emotions and conflict resolution
• Implement Equitable, Culturally Responsive, and Standards-Aligned Curriculum and Instruction
• Provide relevant, challenging learning experiences aligned to grade-level standards through a curriculum that is adapted and supplemented, if necessary
• Create an inclusive community where all aspects of diversity and learner variability are understood, expected, and welcomed
• Engage learners in productive struggle to support perseverance and agency for meeting high expectations of grade-level standards
• Foster cultural competence and curiosity to seek others' perspectives
• Facilitate expression of reasoned, evidence-based arguments, thoughts, and ideas
• Achieve student progress using a variety of formative and summative tools using the information to inform instruction and feedback to students
• Meet the Diverse Needs of Every Learner
• Leverage individual strengths to support academic, social, and emotional growth
• Create multiple pathways to learn and demonstrate learning
• Promote learner agency with immediate, goal-oriented feedback and opportunities for self-directed learning
• Scaffold instruction and feedback for every learner to meet expectations of the standards through practices such as modeling, strategic grouping, individual conferring, sequenced questioning, timely feedback, sound assessment (formative and summative), and practice opportunities
• Collaborate with content specialists (i.e. Advanced Learner Specialist, Special Education Teacher, English Learner Teacher) to plan and implement instruction tied to meeting the needs of all learners

Professional Responsibilities

• Reflects on lessons in a thoughtful, accurate way citing specific evidence and using experiences to suggest alternate and/or improved strategies
• Maintains records (i.e. assessment data) in an accurate, honest, efficient, and effective manner while meeting timelines
• Participates in school-wide and district events and school improvement projects
• Pursues professional learning opportunities and initiates activities to contribute to the profession and are aligned with building and district goals and initiatives while seeking and using feedback from supervisors and colleagues
• Show professionalism, dedication to the job duties assigned and displays the highest standards of ethical conduct
• Complies with state laws, district policies, procedures and guidelines, school expectations, and community expectations
• Maintain positive collaborative partnerships with all stakeholders (colleagues, supervisors, community members, students) leading to educational excellence for all students
• Punctual and regular attendance

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor's Degree in Education or a core subject area with course work that leads to licensure in the content area at an appropriate age level.

Physical Attributes

Regularly required to sit, stand (for prolonged time frames up to 6-8 hours), walk, talk, hear, operate a computer, hand-held learning devices, and other office equipment, reach with hands and arms, and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Certificates, Licenses

Must possess and maintain or be eligible to hold a current Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction license at the level and the content they are teaching.