Career Center

The IDEAL School of Manhattan

Title: Lower School Teacher: Grade 4, Lead Teacher, General Education or Dual Certified

Reports to: Head of Lower School

Mission

The IDEAL School of Manhattan is an inclusion school dedicated to creating a diverse community that affirms and accepts the full identities of all people while inspiring academic excellence, creative leadership, and a desire to build a more just and equitable world.

Position Description

The IDEAL School of Manhattan is seeking a talented, warm, and creative educator who believes in and understands how to foster the potential for excellence in all students in Grade 4, equipping them with the intellectual skills, study habits, and social-emotional skills necessary to ensure continued academic success.

Lower School faculty at IDEAL work in an integrated, co-teaching model, which partners a general educator and a learning specialist to provide a rigorous, student-centered, differentiated, collaborative educational experience within the context of an inclusion classroom. The co-teaching model at IDEAL’s Lower School ensures a low student-teacher ratio and allows teachers to organize flexible groups and to challenge, inspire, and support all learners in the classroom. Most classrooms are also assigned one or two associate teachers who facilitate the inclusion experience for a student in the school’s Dylan program, while also playing a supporting role in the larger classroom.

The IDEAL candidate will

• Show a commitment to inclusive education and have the skills and passion to inspire, nurture, and challenge students with a range of interests, experiences, strengths, readiness-levels, and learning styles

• Possess the vision and the academic skills to teach a truly interdisciplinary, rigorous, and project-based humanities curriculum, within a nurturing and supportive environment

• Have the mathematical thinking skills to teach a range of math levels in flexible groups

• Be skilled in classroom management, creating a respectful, safe, and nurturing community within the classroom where all students feel comfortable expressing their full identity and are inspired to celebrate the full identity of their peers

• Understand and cultivate the co-teaching relationship by prioritizing joint planning and clear communication, ensuring that all students are challenged and supported across disciplines

• Show initiative and follow through on work

• Seek out contemporary and innovative curricula, texts, and technology for incorporation into instruction

• Contribute broadly and fully to the spirit and life of our students, community, and mission

• Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with all constituencies, students, faculty, administration, and families

• Attend and participate in weekly faculty meetings, team meetings, committee meetings, school functions, and professional development activities during and after school hours as needed, appropriate, and assigned

• Uphold the mission, philosophy, principles, policies, and procedures of IDEAL

Essential Qualifications and Qualities

• Master’s degree in elementary education required

• Minimum of three years experience in an appropriate field preferred

• Prior experience in an independent school preferred

• The ability to create and implement tiered lesson plans incorporating differentiated instructional methods and outcomes to engage and inspire students with varied abilities and learning styles

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• The ability to meet deadlines for progress reports and other work

• A growth mindset and collaborative, flexible spirit

• A willingness to go above and beyond to ensure students are nurtured, challenged, and inspired in and out of the classroom

Equal Opportunity Employer

The IDEAL School of Manhattan is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunities for all qualified employees and job applicants and to administer all employment activities regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, citizenship status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence, gender identity or expression, citizenship, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state or local law. The IDEAL School of Manhattan will not tolerate any action by its directors, officers, employees, supervisors, agents or independent contractors in violation of such policy.

This policy of Equal Employment Opportunity applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.