Elementary Teaching Assistant
Elementary Teaching Assistant
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$ 32500 - 37500
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Job Description
To apply please visit our career website: Academy Charter School is hiring a Teaching Assistant for our Elementary School for the 2022/2023 school year.
Salary: $32500$37500
Why Our School is Special:
Empowerment Academy is a highly successful charter school that truly supports its teachers. We serve a student mix that is among the most diverse in America while enjoying the cultural vibrance of Jersey City Hoboken and New York City. If this appeals to you then apply today! We have achieved academic success without burning out our teachers by meshing an effective education program with effective teacher supports and professional development.
We truly value our faculty and work hard to control other costs so we can focus our resources on supporting them. In fact throughout our history we have annually increased faculty salaries by more than at other public schools and now among those with similar experience OUR FACULTY MEMBERS ARE AMONG THE HIGHEST PAID IN NEW JERSEY.
New Jersey charter schools ARE public schools. Our teachers are part of the Teachers Pension and Annuity Fund (TPAF) just like teachers at other public schools and teachers are able to transfer their pension credits from a traditional public school to a charter school and vice versa.
Teacher Responsibilities
Values Expectations and Commitment:Our staff commit themselves to the schools values and mission. Moreover appreciating the example of excellent schools which succeed at helping all students achieve at a high level our teachers hold high expectations for each student and commit themselves to helping every student achieve their full potential.
Teaching and Assessment:We provide staff with curricular materials. We also allow teachers flexibility in designing their own. We ask that teachers plan and deliver vibrant and engaging lessons each with a measurable goal within the framework of the schools carefully sequenced standardsaligned education program. Our teachers administer schoolprovided formative assessments on a regular basis so instruction can be targeted to their students needs.
Culture and Classroom Management:Our staff communicates and models behaviors which befit the high expectations culture and the caring school climate to which we are committed. Our teachers apply school and classroom rules consistently and effectively; make use of preventive discipline; and effectively supervise students both in their classroom and elsewhere on school grounds.
Teamwork Professional Relations and Professional Development:Our staff see themselves as members of a team and commit themselves to their own and to their peers ongoing professional development. Teachers will be required to attend professional development sessions to participate actively in planning meetings and to become part of a professional learning community where they can lend assistance to and gain assistance from their gradelevel peers.
Special Needs Students and English Language Learners:Our staff works collaboratively with the schools special education and ELL staff to implement the schools special education and ELL programs and to comply with all state and federal regulations.
Teacher Assistant Supports
Teacher Assistants are part of a schoolwide team that includes many different professionals and they receive careerlong coaching and professional development support from our diverse Leadership Assistants work closely with their grade level peers with whom they engage within professional learning communities (PLCs) assisting one another to solve problems and plan lessons collaboratively.
Additional teacher assistant supports include:
- Planning periods and a designated lunch break that provides teachers an opportunity to prepare upcoming lessons during the school day;
- A researchbased curriculum and supporting curricular materials (you will have the freedom to develop your own but after a full day in the classroom you may appreciate not always having to develop learning objectives and curricular resources from scratch);
- Highquality formative assessments aligned with our curriculum that will help you immediately identify when students in your class have not achieved mastery of a skill concept or knowledge item;
- Fulltime reading and math specialists or intervention teachers who will be available to tutor students who are struggling to master an essential skill and social workers AND counselors who will be available to help students struggling with outside problems;
- The staffing of our afterschool program by Academic Tutors so we can limit the length of our teachers workdays.
Requirements
We generally seek the same qualities in assistant teachers that we seek in lead teachers. Candidates should have a Bachelors Degree from an accredited university. (Exceptions may be made for candidates presently enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts program who are scheduled to receive their degree within the next 24 months.
It is a bonus if candidates possess a NJ Department of Education CE CEAS or Standard Elementary School Teacher License.
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan 401k IRA)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation Sick & Public Holidays)
- Family Leave (Maternity Paternity)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
As an equal opportunity employer Empowerment Academy hires without consideration to race religion creed color national origin age gender sexual orientation marital status or disability.
Employment Type
Full-Time
