History Social Studies Teacher
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Job Description
Telra Instituteis a charter school in Charlotte NCfocused on advanced learning. We areassembling a highperforming teamto work ina novel educational modelwith a culture that values education will find a supportive environment and opportunities to excel professionally intellectually and financially. As a soughtafter employer we prize top talent that wants to work with other top talent.
Telra is growing and we are looking for history specialist positions to teach students in grades 410 with opportunities to teach content from upper elementary level up to college level). Teachers are responsible for driving learning and teaching within their own class and within the grade while collaboratively working with their department. Part time and hybrid opportunities available.
Who are we looking for
- Motivators who bring joy love and laughter to teachers and students.
- Reflective practitioners who lead with culture and drive with data to personalize learning for all students.
- Responsive leaders of students.
- Problem solvers who see solutions to problems.
- Data geeks who analyze data and loop back to next steps.
- Communicators who value the triad of student school and family and go above and beyond to work in partnership.
- Lifelong learners eager to take on the challenge of building a young school and comfortable working in a fastpaced culture.
What does Telra offer
Explicit systematic cumulative approach to developing teachers through:
- Opportunity to work with an empowered focused and nimble leadership and instructional leadership team with a novel no limits vision for public education.
- Community of students and parents who are bought in to a culture of learning and show a strong appreciation for education.
- Coaching and professional development to hone your direct instructional skills content knowledge and technical proficiency.
- A strong school culture of improvement with a highfrequency cycle of observationfeedbackcoaching plus datadriven instruction.
- Professional development on gifted education differentiation through Personal Learning Pathways collaborative teaching and Telras unique curriculum and assessment model.
Essential Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with Grade Level or Department team
- Attend and participate inweekly/monthly staff meetings
- Teach wholeclass and lead smaller group instruction using a knowledgerich conceptual accelerated curriculum.
- Inspire intellectual curiosity and love of learning that results in all students exceeding a years worth of academic growth.
- Collaborate and use data to create Personal Learning Pathways for students and continually monitor progress towards targets adjusting instruction as required.
- Work collaboratively across grades and within grade levels to teach students of a variety of ages/grades and abilities throughout the day.
- Actively participate in professional development with Instructional Leadership Team including practicing instructional delivery with peers prior to delivery with students real time feedback during instruction analysis of data to monitor student Personal Learning Pathways
- Be an active participant in creating and maintaining a positive school culture for colleagues students and families.
- Use regular touch points to foster and maintain relationships with students and parents to leverage accelerated academic outcomes.
- Be an active participant in a new exciting team that removes glass ceilings and raises the floor of attainment.
Education and Qualifications
- Required
- Bachelors degree in Education or another field relevant to the teaching subject (e.g. engineering degree for a math teacher)
- High drive and passion for working with students being part of an exciting new approach to accelerating learning for all students
- The motivation to seek out new learning opportunities to grow and to share learning with peers
- Preferred
- Initial or continuing professional license and/or desire to obtain one
- Previous classroom experience as a teacher TA or (for early tenure teachers) as a student teacher
Characteristics and capabilities of an ideal applicant
- Attitude
- Demonstrate knowledge about and passion for advanced learners and their education (in gifted programs or other rigorous courses of study)
- Be humble and open to innovate in educational delivery with a commitment to continuous improvement
- Commit to a culture of teamwork transparency high expectations
- Have an attitude that is positive thoughtful passionate articulate motivating and empowering with students and team members
- Be a highly collaborative resultsoriented adaptable and problemsolving selfstarter
- Professionalism
- Demonstrate comfort with multitasking and energizing a team to execute
- Display excellent written and verbal communication skills with students colleagues and other stakeholders
- Be responsive and able to set and achieve audacious goals
- Have high standards of professionalism for self and others
- Technical literacy
- Be computer savvy with proficiency in the Microsoft suite
- Be comfortable using technology for data analysis instruction and collaboration
Employment Type
Full-Time
