Cambridge, Massachusetts
Posted: 06-Feb-25
Location: Los Angeles, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: $60,000-$115,000
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Curtis is seeking a Lower Elementary Teacher to join a team-oriented, inclusive, and professional learning community. Curtis School is a DK-6 co-ed elementary school whose mission is to “develop, in every child, a sound mind in a sound body, governed by a compassionate heart.”
We place an equal emphasis on academic, physical, social-emotional, and character education and instill a growth mindset modeled by faculty and staff who are the best in their craft. The Lower Elementary Teacher will be responsible for maintaining a positive learning environment in their homeroom and creating a program that meets the intellectual and emotional needs of each child. The successful candidate will work closely with a co-lead or associate teacher and colleagues in their grade level (Grades DK-2), under the supervision of the Director of Lower Elementary, to build an engaging curriculum that fulfills Curtis’s mission and values. The candidate must have excellent time-management, organizational, and communication skills, be innovative and creative in instructional planning, dynamic and adaptable to shifting work conditions, and open to feedback. A collegial personality and responsiveness to direction are essential traits, as is a love of working with primary school-aged children.
Curtis School is fully committed to a diverse faculty and student body. The candidate should possess an abundance of respect and sensitivity around racial, ethnic, gender, socio-economic, and all differences.
A successful candidate will:
- Have a bachelor’s degree (master’s degree and teaching credential preferred)
- Ideally have 3-5 years’ teaching experience (Grades DK-2 preferred)
- Have familiarity with the following instructional approaches: Responsive Classroom, backward design, explicit phonics instruction, and Singapore math
- Have strong writing skills and the ability to effectively communicate student progress via report card narratives
- Be cognizant of current trends, pedagogy, research, and topics of importance in education and be willing to apply them in the classroom and share with other teachers
- Continually seek professional growth and development
- Demonstrate professionalism
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate with students, colleagues, and parents
- Participate actively in student and community life inside and outside the classroom
- Understand the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in education
- Have excellent technology skills and experience integrating technology in instruction
- Provide a portfolio of teaching with examples of innovative lessons or projects that demonstrate creative and critical thinking and/or teach a demo lesson
- Be flexible about working in outdoor weather conditions and able to regularly sit, stand, walk, use hands, reach with arms, talk and hear, and occasionally lift up to 10-25 pounds