Job Description:

The DREAM Charter School Second Grade Classroom Co - Teacher is responsible for ensuring that all students are achieving at high levels academically, socially, and emotionally.

Core Functions:

• Co-teach a Second grade class with a certified early childhood teacher

• Use student data on an on-going basis to assess, to plan/ modify instruction, and to monitor student learning. Reflect regularly with colleagues, school leadership, and students’ families on student goals, performance, and progress
• Administer, collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data gathered from a variety of assessments on each student
• Collaborate, plan with all colleagues, and attend professional development activities to ensure a common school wide philosophy on teaching and learning, consistency of grade level expectations, and the scaffolding of strategies and skills within a grade and across the grades
• Plan purposefully to provide students with opportunities for inquiry and constructing meaning as they build on what they know and create new learning and understandings around content, concepts, and skills
• Utilize, develop, and adapt developmentally appropriate and engaging curricula and instructional materials in order to ensure access for ELL students
• Infuse ESL techniques and strategies into the curriculum to adapt and differentiate instruction for the ELL students in the class
• Assist colleagues in understanding the culture of our ELL students as well as how students acquire language
• Collaborate with specialists and other colleagues in designing and co-teaching lessons that integrate health and wellness into other content areas, and classroom routines when appropriate, in order to promote the development of a healthy lifestyle
• Act as grade level coordinator of ELL services- administering NYSESLAT and coordinating the work of teachers and other personnel to meet the individualized needs of the student within our inclusive program
• Build relationships with families of DREAM students through frequent communication about students’ progress and ways that families can support their children’s learning
• Create a classroom community that maintains the school’s academic and social expectations
• Actively work to improve his or her own practice, to acquire and enhance the skills and knowledge necessary for excellent instruction and to generally increase his or her effectiveness in the classroom and in the school community
• Operate according to the high professional standards of the school

Required Knowledge:

• Understanding of and commitment to the mission and activities of the DREAM Charter School and Harlem RBI

• Understanding that the field of education requires us to be continual learners and professional development is the key to our professional growth and success
• Understanding and knowledge of ESL techniques and strategies for different levels of language acquisition for English language learners
• Understanding of early childhood cognitive, emotional, social, and physical development
• Understanding of and experience with oral language assessments, LAB-R, NYSESLAT as well as other assessment tools for early childhood and English language learners
• Understanding of and fundamental belief in progressive educational philosophy and practices
• Understanding that for optimal learning to occur behavior must be a part of the instructional program, and that it is a teacher’s role to organize and manage the classroom to foster community values and student independence
• Understanding of current issues impacting urban education

Skills and Abilities:

• Seeks pedagogical expertise above all else

• Fascinated by children
• Ability to include magic, a little mystique, a bit of fun, and lots of joy into schooling
• Talent to create a thinking, meticulous, yet intimate learning environment for the accommodation and inclusion of ELLs
• Ability to thrive in professional relationships built on parity, communication, respect, and trust
• Strong interpersonal skills, both in support of team building responsibilities and in support of needs of DREAM and Harlem RBI
• Desire to have students, families, and colleagues call you by your first name
• Intelligence, resourcefulness, creativity, and a hard-working team member
• Superior organizational, data management, and record-keeping skills
• Strong communication skills, including writing and editing ability

Experience/Education:

• Masters Degree, or higher degree, in Education

• Fulfillment of all NCLB “highly qualified” requirements.
• Minimum of two-years as a teacher in an early childhood classroom
• Demonstrated successful record of prior employment in an educational environment
• Appropriate New York State certifications
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) helpful
• Experience working with diverse populations of students, parents and families
• Experience working with students at-risk of educational failure

Salary and Benefits:

• Commensurate with experience and qualifications

• Comprehensive benefits including 403(b) plan

How to apply:

• Send cover letter and resume to: jobs@dreamschoolnyc.org. Indicate “ELL Teacher” in the subject line. DREAM Charter School is an equal opportunity employer

• We encourage applicants to apply with one or more colleagues