- Teach a 6th-grade history course or a history course and an English course (4 sections, ~80 students). - Oversee an advisory group of students that meets daily, helping advisees and advisees' parents navigate the sixth-grade experience and facilitate small-group lessons and reflections on a range of topics. - Create a classroom environment of mutual respect and rapport; incorporate anti-bias and anti-racist practices into the clasroom culture. - Apply principles of backward design (UbD) to course and unit curriculum. - Collaborate to plan curriculum around shared learning outcomes, skill sequences, content knowledge, and enduring understandings and essential questions. - Use a variety of instructional techniques to engage students in active, experiential learning. - Integrate technology into lessons, including the use of Mac laptops and Google platforms. - Use Chadwick principles of assessment and grading to assess, record, and provide feedback on student learning and next steps. - Communicate with parents regarding students' academic progress and social-emotional development, including composing individual student and advisor comments two times a year and meeting with parents for student conferences twice a year. - Respond to parent emails in a timely manner. - Create differentiated lessons with attention to students with Individualized Learning Plans. - Collaborate with grade level colleagues and the student support team, including the school counselor and learning specialist, regarding academic, social, or emotional student issues. - Use core values to help manage student behavior and teach problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills as relevant. - Collaborate closely with colleagues on sixth-grade programming, including advisory and community programming (such as Halloween sixth grade celebrations, etc). - Accompany students on field trips, including up to two outdoor education experiences which range from 2-4 nights away. - Attend sixth-grade orientation programming (Sandal Camp) before school begins, back-to-school events, and sixth grade family events. - Engage in assigned weekly duties, such as student supervision on the playground for lunch and recess, study hall, and dismissal. - Attend planning meetings with the sixth-grade team and departmental curriculum teams. - Attend faculty meetings and professional development days, including a week of new faculty training and professional development before school begins. - Engage in Chadwick new faculty orientations and training throughout the year. - Demonstrate an ability to proactively reflect on and participate in discussions around identity, race, and issues of social justice. - Assist in sixth-grade admissions events as needed. - Collaborate with Middle School teachers on the transitional "Bridges" programming to help ensure a smooth transition into the seventh grade. - Collaborate when relevant with sixth grade colleagues from international Chadwick campuses. - Other duties as assigned. |