Job description
Wyatt Academy is a K-5th Community school where students thrive socially, emotionally and academically. Wyatt is looking for Elementary Teachers for the 2024/2025 school year to advance the mission and vision of the school. All Wyatt Academy teachers must demonstrate a strong commitment to work with a diverse population, including English Language Learners, and exhibit a resilient desire to improve their English language instruction.
Meet Our Wyatt Staff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ruvb4qBNo)
This position requires a self-motivated, team-oriented individual with a strong attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and solid technology communication skills. Most importantly, this individual must possess and demonstrate a ‘whatever it takes’ attitude to close the achievement gap. This individual must truly enjoy working with students, families and the Wyatt community.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $53,000.00 per year
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year institution.
- Certified Teacher License or pass the PLACE or PRAXIS II Test or have 24 semester credits in minor areas of assignment.
- Colorado Alternative, Provisional or Professional Teaching License with endorsements for the levels and subject areas in the major (51% or more) areas of assignment preferred.
- Demonstrated record of achieving dramatic, measurable student achievement gains
- Professional knowledge of content, standards and effective teaching strategies
- Strong desire to work in a fast paced, intellectually and emotionally challenging school environment
- Excellent communication skills
- Unrelenting desire to improve your practice
- Team player with maturity and humility
- Unwavering focus on achievement
- Must successfully pass reference checks, background checks and/or licensure verification.
- Dedication and belief in Wyatt Academy’s mission, educational model and code of conduct.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise a high level of tact and discretion in both internal and external interactions. Ability to motivate a team and work as a team member. Ability to create and maintain good working relationships with a variety of internal and external constituents.
- Proficiency in Google, Word, Excel and intermediate computer functions.
MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE UNITED STATES
JOB DUTIES:
- Deliver rigorous standards-based engaging lessons.
- Creates lessons with differentiation strategies including second language learner sheltering, IEP accommodations, and other scaffolding.
- Models, promotes, and as situations arise, takes the opportunity to provide instruction related to the school’s code of conduct.
- Assesses the learning, achievement, and performance of each scholar and reports the results as required by school procedures.
- Develops, adjusts and enhances the Wyatt curriculum maps to meet the needs of our learners.
- Enters and maintains scholar achievement data in all school data systems.
- Communicates with families and school counselors on scholar progress.
- Maintains positive, professional working relationships with scholars.
- Maintains an orderly, positive learning environment.
- Establishes and maintains standards of scholar behavior required to provide an orderly and productive environment.
- Implements assigned portions of scholars’ Individualized Education Programs (IEP) and utilizes the MTSS process.
- Follows all school protocol according to the employee handbook.
- Participates in faculty committees and the sponsorship of scholar activities.
- Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the school, DPS and/or in self-selected professional growth activities.
- Works toward mutually acceptable resolution of interpersonal conflicts as they arise.
- Regularly reads, learns and appropriately applies new information into practice.
- Develops cooperation and collaborative work efforts.
- Sets development goals, in collaboration with supervisor.