Earth Science Teacher ( 2024-2025 School Year)
Family Life Academy Charter Schools
- The Bronx, NY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Value collaboration with like-minded educators who believe that education is activism.
- Want to work in an environment where all students are scholars and academic excellence is the norm.
- Believe that young people can be leaders who can create positive change in their communities and that schools should be safe, warm and caring environments.
- Desire to work in a place where their skills will be nurtured through an embedded professional development program.
- Creates academically rigorous, standards-based, culturally relevant lesson plans that foster critical thinking and problem-solving and prepare students for the NYS Regents examinations, Advanced Placement, and/or collegiate level coursework.
- Utilizes student-centered instructional strategies to engage students and differentiate teaching based on the diverse, individual needs of students including those with disabilities and ELLs.
- Implements units using common network curriculum resources, maps, frameworks, pacing documents and instructional philosophies to ensure alignment across our schools from kindergarten through high school graduation.
- Integrates literacy skills across their curriculum area, includes explicit vocabulary development and prepares students to read, write, speak and listen within this discipline.
- Coplans and co-teaches with Special Education teachers and English as a New Language teachers, either as part of an ICT model or to support students through differentiation of materials.
- Analyzes data from ongoing formative and summative assessments to refine instructional practices and impact student achievement.
- Maintains strong classroom management and implements school wide policies and procedures to ensure a safe, caring and orderly school environment.
- Establishes a classroom culture of caring, respect and rapport which holds all students to high academic standards, promotes inclusion, fosters a love of learning, and builds positive relationships.
- Grades student work and provides students with actionable feedback, and returns work and enters these grades into online systems shared with students and families promptly.
- Seeks to actively know students’ strengths and challenge areas and communicates these effectively with families using online portals, report cards and other means.
- Participates in professional development, professional learning communities, grade-level activities and school wide functions.
- Shares best practices with colleagues by participating in professional learning communities, grade-level or content teams, and cross-school groups.
- Upholds the FLACS mission, core beliefs, and educational philosophy.
- Is a lifelong learner who reflects on their practice, is receptive to critical feedback from leaders and colleagues, and strives to improve instructional effectiveness.
- Has high expectations for students and for themselves as an educator.
- Demonstrates self-motivation and willingness to be a team player.
- Bachelor's degree is required; a Master’s degree is preferred.
- New York State Teaching Certification in Earth Science (grades 7-12).
- Prior satisfactory teaching experience, especially in an urban school, is preferred.
- Dual certification in English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) or Students with Disabilities is a plus.
- NYS Department of Education fingerprint clearance and criminal background checks.