Details
Posted: 03-Mar-22
Location: NAPA, California
Type: Contract
Preferred Education: Masters
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Categories:
Elementary Teacher
Attributes
- Familiarity with progressive education teaching techniques and ability to put them into practice
- Facility to create a positive, nurturing, and interactive environment for all students
- Active and attentive listener
- Exhibits excellent judgment and decision-making abilities
- Flexibility in thinking and curiosity to learn
- Sense of humor, authentic empathy, warmth, and collegiality
- Desire and ability to contribute to student and community life inside and outside the classroom
- Commitment to social justice and fostering culturally competent and inclusive classrooms
Responsibilities
- Teach first-grade curricula including Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and SEL
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a Lower School faculty and whole-school community
- Deep understanding of developmental stages and issues common during the early elementary years
- Familiarity with current best practices in early elementary education including emergent literacy techniques
- Facility to integrate, adapt, differentiate, and create curricula that enables students to construct new and meaningful connections
- Assess students in authentic ways, both formally and informally
- Clear communication skills, both verbally and in written form
- Ability to honor and nurture each child’s individuality and identity, and inspire student passion
- Build interpersonal relationships with colleagues and families
Blue Oak School offers a challenging and stimulating education to children of diverse backgrounds and interests. Through the culture and community of the School, teachers nurture the development of character and foster confidence, creativity, flexibility and curiosity in each child. Blue Oak School does not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual or gender identity in its hiring processes and actively promotes the principles and practices of diversity throughout the school community. We offer competitive compensation and a progressive community dedicated to learning and engaged citizenship.
Requirements
- BA required; MEd, MA or teaching credential preferred
- Minimum 5 years’ teaching experience in an early elementary classroom
- Experience with progressive pedagogy, student-centered teaching, project-based learning, integrated curriculum planning, and authentic measures of student learning
- A commitment to creating an inclusive classroom community that allows for a multitude of perspectives to be heard and respected
- A love of working with students and creating a joyful learning environment
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