JobTitle:Master Team Reach Teacher(MTRT) Wage/Hour Status:Exempt
Reports to: Campus Principal PayGrade:Step plus stipend
Dept./School: To be assignedDays:187
Supervises:N/A
Primary Purpose:
The Master Team Reach Teacher (MTRT) serves ona multiclassroom leaders (MCLs)team directly teaching more students than usual but typically without raising instructional group sizes.Masterteam reach teachers also help the MCL lead a larger team (e.g. by coaching part of the team) and/or reachsignificantlymore students than other teachers.
Additionally the MTRT has previously produced consistently highgrowth student learning.
With guidance from the teams MCL MTRTs plan and deliver instruction for multiple classes in a school where students rotate between facetoface learning with the teacher and digitaloroffline learning supervised by a paraprofessional known as a reach associate or a teacher resident. While one class of students is witha reach associate the MTRTteaches another class of students focusing on delivering personalized and enriched instruction. Each MTRTis responsible for coplanning copreparing and delivering instruction and comonitoring student progress to determine instructional needs. MTRTsare also responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of instruction supervised by the reach associate(s) and making or recommending changes. The MTRTcollaborates with others working with the same students or subjects including other members of the multiclassroom leaders team as well as tutors or reach associates to review student progress and change instruction to ensure highprogress enriched learning for every student. In elementary schools teachers may specialize by subject.
Qualifications:
Education/Certification:
- Bachelors Degree
- Valid Teacher Certification
Special Knowledge/Skills:
- Knowledge of subject matter beingtaught
- Prior evidence of highprogress student outcomesandevidence of superior prior academic achievements in relevant subjects and organizing and influence skills indicating very high potential to perform at thislevel.
- Demonstrated effectiveness working with people who have differing cultural backgrounds and/or personal characteristics including race religion gender sexual orientation or economic differences. Preference givenfor experience working successfully with those of similar demographics to the desired schoolplacement.
Experience:
- Minimum of threeyears ofsuccessful classroom teaching experience
Major Responsibilities and Duties:with guidance from MCL and in collaboration with team colleagues):
Planning and Preparation:
- Set high expectations of achievement that areambitious and measurable for students
- Plan backward to align all lessons activitiesand assessments in designatedsubject(s)
- Design inperson instruction that is enriched(developing higherorder thinking skills) and personalized (reflecting learning levels and interests of individualstudents)
- Design personalized digital or offline assignmentsfor students while under reach associatesupervision
- Design assessments that accurately assess studentgrowth
- Determine how students spend all instructionaltime
Classroom Environment:
- Hold students accountable for high expectationsof behavior andengagement
- Create physical classroom environments conduciveto collaborative and individuallearning
- Establish a culture of respect enthusiasm andrapport
Instruction:
- Hold students accountable for ambitiousmeasurable standards of academicachievement
- Identify and address individual students socialemotionaland behavioral learning needs and barriers
- Identify and address individual students developmentoforganizational and timemanagement skills
- Invest students in learning with several influencemethods
- Incorporate questioning and discussion in studentlearning
- Identify and address individual students social emotional and behavioral learning needs and barriers
- Incorporate smallgroup and individual instructionto personalize and tailor instruction to individualneeds
- Incorporate questioning and discussion in student learning
Critical Competencies
- Achievement: The drive and actions to set challenging goals and reach a high standard of performance despite barriers
- Planning Ahead: A bias toward planning in order to reach goals and avoid problems
- Impact and Influence: Acting with the purpose of influencing what other people think and do
- Cultural Engagement: Noticing anticipating and acting to meet peoples practical and emotional needs considering the possible effect of culture past experiences or personal characteristics including race gender sexual orientation religious economic and/or other backgrounds in order to create positive impact on individual and the group
- Teamwork: The ability and actions needed to work with others to achieve shared goals.
- Developing Others: Influence with the specific intent to increase the short and longterm effectiveness of another person.
- Flexibility: The ability to adapt ones approach to the requirements of a situation and to change tactics.
- Believe in Learning Potential: A belief that all students regardless of circumstances can learn at levels higher than their current achievement indicates.
Working Conditions:
Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
Maintain emotional control under stress. Frequent districtwide and statewide travel; occasional prolonged or irregular hours.
The foregoing statements describe the general purpose and responsibilities assigned to this job and are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties that may be assigned or skills that may be required. I have read understand and attest to the above description and funding relating to my daily activities.