Teacher, Elementary (2026-2027) Lyndale, Kindergarten
About the role
Provide quality instruction aligned to the state and national standards. Use a variety of assessment strategies - diagnostic, formative and summative, to inform instructional decisions and increase student self-management of learning. Rigorous inquiry-based learning tasks engage students in deep content of the discipline as well as the habits of scholarship.
Responsibilities
- Teach students the required curricula using strategies that foster thinking, reasoning and problem solving.
- Collaborate with peers to develop, plan and implement best practices based on the needs/abilities of the students.
- Assess students' developmental, cognitive and social needs and provide developmentally appropriate instruction to meet those needs.
- Create lessons and learning environments that are safe, respectful and interesting as well as multicultural/gender and ability fair/developmentally appropriate.
- Collaborate and communicate regularly with families in making educational decisions and use family and community resources to support learning.
- Acquire knowledge of the goals of the Minneapolis Public School District Improvement Agenda and site/school goals.
- Work to support and achieve those goals.
- Assess own instructional effectiveness through the Professional Development Process (PDP).
- Participate in ongoing and regular staff, team and individual professional development.
Requirements
Have a working knowledge of and implement the Minnesota State Standards and the District Graduation Requirements; knowledge of the subject matter, classroom management techniques, current researched best practices and strategies, as well as students' learning styles and needs, both academic and affective.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university.
- Prior successful experience student teaching or teaching in an urban, multicultural education setting.
- Demonstrated continued professional development through course work, research, peer collaboration and/or job-embedded staff development.
- Master's or PhD preferred.
Skills
N/A
Benefits
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off
- HSA & FSA
- Retailer plan
Pay
Salary Range: 55,796-116,593
Schedule
42 weeks; this is based on full-time equivalency with 1.0 being full time
Organizational Unit
Lyndale Elementary (10000070)
Site
Lyndale (0144)
Union
Teachers(04)
Functional Area
Teaching