2627 | Elementary ELA Teacher

Tulsa Legacy Charter School•Tulsa, OK

About The Position

An Elementary ELA Teacher creates and enhances a culture of achievement and respect, where high expectations and results are the norm. Teachers are responsible for demonstrating significant, measurable academic gains each year for the students they teach. Their actions must align with the organization’s mission, vision, core values, and education program. The role includes planning and delivering standards-aligned instruction; setting and assessing measurable learning goals; using student data to improve instruction and develop reteaching plans; and creating an equitable, respectful, well-structured learning environment. The teacher also communicates and collaborates with families and community members, and works with colleagues to improve teaching practice, student achievement, and school and network goals.

Responsibilities

Use state standards and curriculum maps to plan rigorous, objective-driven lessons, including completing standards deconstructions.
Develop an academic calendar with annual mastery objectives that ensures critical knowledge and skills are taught throughout the year.
Plan lessons that make explicit the thinking skills students will learn and practice, the skills they will demonstrate, and how they will assess their own mastery.
Differentiate instruction for students’ individual learning needs and use activities and technology to engage students with varied learning styles, personalities, and needs for movement.
Prepare high-quality student work and complete intellectual preparation, including criteria for success, exemplar responses, and thinking steps or think-alouds.
Introduce mastery objectives, activate students’ prior knowledge, and revisit objectives at the end of lessons so students apply learning in context.
Use think-alouds and a variety of instructional strategies, and provide varied opportunities for students to practice and achieve.
Develop ambitious, measurable, standards-aligned goals; assess and track student performance against them.
Use formative and summative assessments to measure progress toward mastery objectives and goals.
Provide timely feedback, frequently check for understanding, and listen to students.
Use data to evaluate lesson effectiveness and student progress, improve instruction and personal practice, and create or revise reteaching plans.
Create an equitable, respectful, focused classroom environment that encourages students to take risks and work toward goals.
Communicate and enforce behavior and academic expectations aligned with the TLCS School Culture Guide and Responsive Classroom.
Establish, model, practice, and reinforce age-appropriate expectations and logical consequences; create and consistently use individual behavior plans as needed.
Implement classroom procedures, systems, and routines that provide structure and maximize instructional time.
Communicate respectfully and thoughtfully with parents and guardians, with sensitivity to families’ cultures, values, and needs.
Maintain timely family communication through folders, notes, newsletters, calls, meetings, conferences, and report cards about student progress, curriculum, and expectations.
Collaborate with families and community members to involve them in academic activities and bring in volunteers and additional resources.
Collaborate with colleagues in grade-level and school-wide meetings, professional development, and other learning opportunities to improve practice, instruction, assessment, achievement, and school and network outcomes.
Participate in and contribute to professional learning opportunities, including department meetings.
Engage with relevant research, theories, developments, professional development, and colleagues’ and supervisors’ ideas, applying professional judgment to classroom practice.
Reflect on teaching, identify professional development needs, listen to other viewpoints, and respond constructively to feedback and criticism.
Use feedback to update the Individual Professional Development Plan.
Complete outlined and related functions professionally, promptly, and thoroughly.