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Comp Sci High · 1 month ago

ELA Teacher

Bronx, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$75K/yr - $120K/yr

Comp Sci High is a new public charter high school in the South Bronx dedicated to preparing students for success in tech and beyond. The ELA Teacher will focus on developing students' reading, writing, and critical thinking skills while collaborating with faculty to enhance the ELA program and support students' academic success.

Education

Responsibilities

Work with the Department Chair to improve on the 9th grade ELA program in order to deliver excellent results, teaches students to develop both their creative and expository writing skills, master editing techniques, merge historical content with modern themes in today’s literature, and show students the connections between the humanities and technology

Teach four sections of 9th grade ELA, leveraging both class time and prep opportunities like Mock Exams and Saturday prep to ensure that 95%+ of students are on track to pass the ELA Regents Exam in 11th grade

Teach one section of 9th grade SETSS

Build strong relationships with students, families, and the Bronx community

Lead an advisory, supporting and mentoring 10-15 students and building close relationships with their families

Collaborate with faculty, students, and parents to build an innovative, exciting, and effective school model that achieves our mission and impacts education reform nationwide

Work closely with a co-teacher to develop lesson plans, provide students with grades and timely feedback, modify instruction, incorporate high leverage co-teaching models, utilize study data to inform lesson planning, schedule and attend regular planning and norming meetings, prepare for and attend IEP meetings

Attend regular 2x1 meetings with direct manager and co-teacher, attend 1x1 meetings with direct manager, attend weekly department meetings

Attend professional development opportunities both on campus and in collaboration with outside organizations

Incorporate equity into curriculum, lesson design, instruction

Collaborate with teachers across the Humanities department to execute on interdisciplinary initiatives and competency/standard alignment

Be receptive to receiving vertical and lateral feedback from colleagues as well as managers, and participate in the formal 360 review process

Qualification

Curriculum designExperience in urban schoolsDifferentiating instructionPassion for ELACommitment to BIPOC studentsTech skillsCollaboration with facultyCommunity buildingFeedback receptivenessMentoring students