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Grace Church School’s mission of fostering academic excellence, ethical values, and an inclusive community anchors our program and informs our pedagogy and curriculum, preparing our students to lead meaningful and productive lives. The school nurtures and educates the whole child, understanding that our humanity comprises mind, body, heart, and spirit. We celebrate our differences, respect our diversity, and embrace our shared human experience.
About Position
Grace Church School seeks a Fourth Grade Head Teacher to begin in August 2022.
Responsibilities
- Cultivate a warm and inviting classroom community that promotes a positive and productive learning environment
- Develop, plan, and teach math, social studies, writer’s workshop, and reading lessons.
- Differentiate instruction to support group and individual learning, and provide extra support and enrichment as needed
- Implement classroom management strategies to monitor student behavior
- Collaborate with grade-level team members to enhance the curriculum
- Commit to addressing social justice, diversity, equity, and anti-bias education in the curriculum
- Utilize technology where appropriate when teaching and planning lessons
- Plan field trips to enhance the curriculum
- Collaborate with specialty teachers, as well as math and reading specialists, to plan and integrate various units across the curriculum
- Work with grade-level team members and the Head of Lower School on a weekly basis to plan curriculum and organize Fourth Grade events
- Identify and respond to individual student’s academic and social-emotional needs in collaboration with the Head of Lower School and Lower School Guidance Counselor
- Monitor student progress to determine the effectiveness of interventions
- Maintain accurate, detailed records of student progress, parent communication, and lessons
- Communicate effectively with parents on a regular basis through meetings, phone calls, emails, parent teacher conferences, and report cards
- Perform assigned, ongoing scheduled responsibilities with care (recess duty, lunch duty, dismissal, etc.)
- Attend and participate actively in division and whole school faculty meetings
- Guide, train, mentor and support Fourth Grade Associate Teachers
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
- Minimum of two years experience teaching elementary school children
- Effectively implements antiracist pedagogy into curriculum
- Experience teaching Bridges Math preferred