Lower School Teaching Partner
- Buffalo, NY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Shows evidence of successfully engaging families in the educational progress of their children.
- Integrates community connections into his/her current practice.
- Shows evidence of being an active participant in an integrated curriculum project and can successfully describe a conceptual approach that addresses instructional goals, instructional activities, and assessment.
- Shows achievement in integrating reading and math into social studies and science lessons.
- Shows success in teaching through the Arts by offering students the opportunity to develop a sense of aesthetic, and to value craftsmanship and presentation.
- Demonstrates a working knowledge of assessment FOR learning and assessment OF learning by showing the successful use of assessment techniques to inform instruction.
- Demonstrates a willingness to regularly participate in professional development, both on and off site, and to actively integrate this learning into his/her practice and share with colleagues.
- Be a partner, working collaboratively with the lead classroom teacher.
- Participates as a member of a collaborative team by successfully using communication strategies and structures to overcome collaboration barriers such as time and communication styles.
- Demonstrates an awareness of personal strengths and challenges in terms of collaboration and can demonstrate flexibility in his/her personal style to serve multiple roles in collaborative relationships/teams.
- Exhibits initiative in meeting the professional challenge of meeting diverse student needs in an urban classroom setting.
- Demonstrates awareness of and respect toward students, families and colleagues with diverse backgrounds using Tapestry's Core Values of: perseverance, Integrity, Respect & responsibility.
- Demonstrates a working knowledge of differentiation, based on data that is designed to help all students achieve higher-order thinking and learning.
- Knowledge of Expeditionary Learning is a plus.
- Classroom experience is a plus.
- Must be working towards certification.
- NYS Certification preferred.