Opportunity Culture Team Reach Teacher (Trt)

JobTitle:Team Reach Teacher(TRT) Wage/Hour Status:Exempt

Reports to: Campus Principal PayGrade:Step plus stipend

Dept./School: To be assignedDays:187

Supervises:N/A

Primary Purpose:

The Team Reach Teacher (TRT) directly teaches more students than usual but typically without raising instructional group sizes. With guidance from the teams MCL the TRT plans and delivers instruction for multiple classes in a school where students rotate between face-to-face learning with the teacher and digital or offline learning supervised by a paraprofessional known as a reach associate or a teacher resident. While one class of students is with a reach associate the TRT teaches another class of students focusing on delivering personalized and enriched instruction.

The TRT is responsible for co-planning co-preparing and delivering instruction and co-monitoring student progress to determine instructional needs. The TRT is also responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of instruction supervised by the reach associate(s) and making or recommending changes. The TRT collaborates with others working with the same students or subjects including other members of the multi-classroom leaders team as well as reach associates to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high- progress enriched learning for every elementary schools the TRT may specialize by subject.

Qualifications:

Education/Certification:

• Bachelors Degree
• Valid Teacher Certification
• Minimum of threeyears ofsuccessful classroom teaching experience

Special Knowledge/Skills:

• Knowledge of subject matter beingtaught
• Prior evidence of high-progress 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.

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 in-person instruction that is enriched(developing higher-order 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 socialemotional
• and behavioral learning needs and barriers
• Identify and address individual students developmentof
• organizational and time-management skills
• Invest students in learning with several influencemethods
• Incorporate questioning and discussion in studentlearning
• Incorporate small-group and individual instructionto personalize and tailor instruction to individualneeds

Critical Competencies

• Achievement: The drive and actions to set challenging goals and reach a high standard of performance despite barriers
• 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 long term 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.

Required Experience:

IC