Floater Teacher

AXL Academy • Aurora, CO

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Floater Teacher provides flexible, school-wide instructional support through guest teaching, co-teaching, intervention groups, classroom coverage, student supervision, and support for AXL Academy’s daily academic and cultural routines. The role helps ensure continuity of instruction when classroom teachers are absent, supports targeted academic interventions, partners with teachers to strengthen instruction and classroom culture, and contributes to a safe, inclusive, student-centered learning environment.

Floater Teachers serve as guest teachers across grade levels and content areas, co-teach or push into classrooms as needed, facilitate small-group intervention and enrichment, support fieldwork and school events, and supervise students during key transitions and community times. The position requires flexibility, instructional judgment, collaboration, and commitment to AXL Academy’s mission, culture, and equity-based practices.

The role includes implementing lesson plans and classroom routines; supporting differentiated instruction, student engagement, and behavior; leading targeted intervention groups; monitoring student progress; and communicating relevant updates to teachers and school leadership. It also involves supervision during arrival, dismissal, lunch, recess, passing periods, and other school-wide transitions, as well as participation in fieldwork, school events, staff meetings, and professional development.

Floater Teachers are expected to be in person each day school is in session, including professional development days, student-led conferences, school events, and fieldwork days. The position observes scheduled school breaks and holidays.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Valid Colorado teaching license, substitute authorization, or ability to obtain appropriate authorization as required by the school and state regulations.
• Experience teaching, guest teaching, co-teaching, or providing instructional support in a school setting.
• Ability to follow lesson plans, lead classroom instruction, and adapt across multiple grade levels and content areas.
• Strong classroom management, student engagement, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to lead small-group instruction and support academic intervention.
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Willingness to work across different roles, classrooms, grade levels, and school needs.
• Commitment to equity, inclusiveness, restorative practices, and school-wide professionalism.
• Ability to pass required background checks and employment clearances.
• Ability to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, operate a computer, use handheld learning devices, and operate classroom or office equipment.
• Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to move frequently throughout classrooms, hallways, shared spaces, outdoor supervision areas, and fieldwork settings.

Nice To Haves

• Prior classroom teaching experience.
• Experience with intervention groups, differentiated instruction, multilingual learners, or special education support.
• Bilingual or multilingual skills.
• Familiarity with restorative practices, Expeditionary Learning, project-based learning, or culturally responsive instruction.
• Proficiency with Google Suite, Chromebooks, student information systems, and educational technology tools.
• Experience using student data to inform instruction and intervention.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a guest teacher across grade levels and content areas when classroom teachers or instructional staff are absent.
• Implement lesson plans, instructional routines, classroom expectations, and learning activities to maintain continuity of instruction.
• Maintain a productive, safe, and inclusive classroom environment; adjust pacing, clarify directions, support understanding, and respond to classroom needs.
• Communicate classroom updates, student concerns, lesson progress, and follow-up needs to teachers and school leadership.
• Support planned and emergency classroom coverage needs.
• Co-teach and push into classrooms to support whole-group, small-group, differentiated instruction, engagement, and behavior.
• Collaborate with teachers to reinforce lesson objectives, academic expectations, and learning targets.
• Support project-based and expeditionary learning, fieldwork preparation, and hands-on classroom experiences.
• Assist with differentiation, scaffolding, student conferencing, formative checks for understanding, and positive classroom culture.
• Lead targeted intervention groups and provide small-group reteaching, enrichment, and academic support aligned with student needs and learning targets.
• Monitor intervention-group progress and communicate patterns, needs, and next steps to teachers and leadership.
• Support multilingual learners and students requiring additional academic support or differentiated access.
• Use instructional resources, assessments, and school systems to support intervention planning and implementation.
• Supervise students during lunch, recess, arrival, dismissal, passing periods, and other transitions; monitor hallways, bathrooms, shared spaces, and outdoor areas.
• Support fieldwork trips and school operations, maintain visibility in student-facing spaces, and respond to student needs in alignment with school culture systems.
• Communicate with the Principal or designee regarding assignments, coverage needs, and schedule updates.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers, interventionists, Crew Culture Leaders, special education staff, multilingual learner staff, and instructional teams.
• Implement classroom strategies, student support plans, behavior plans, and academic accommodations as directed.
• Attend required staff meetings, professional development days, school events, Student-Led Conferences, Expedition Nights, and community gatherings.
• Uphold restorative practices, equity-based expectations, inclusive learning environments, confidentiality, and professional conduct.
• Build trusting relationships with students and support engagement, emotional regulation, problem-solving, student voice, and independence.
• Contribute to smooth school operations, consistent instruction, intervention systems, and student progress toward learning targets.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level