Career Center

Learning Support Teacher, Grades K-8, Leave Replacement

The School at Columbia University is an independent K-8 school founded in 2003 with the goal of providing an excellent education to a diverse student body. Our intentional school culture embraces shared beliefs across disciplines and grades, which underlie important values expressed through everyday behaviors and visible symbols throughout our community.

We dedicate ourselves to fostering in our students’ personal resourcefulness and integrity, a sense of social responsibility, and a lifelong appreciation of learning through an innovative, socially and emotionally supportive, and academically challenging program. Our pedagogical and curricular philosophies embrace multicultural perspectives, which challenge educators and learners to examine their preconceived notions of race, gender, ethnicity, class, ability, religion, and sexual orientation. We adhere to a common code of civility among all constituents. We tailor our instruction so that the needs of the individual students are met. A committed faculty and administration strive to create a school that will stand as a model for what K-8 education can be, and serve as a genuine and enduring partnership between Columbia University and its neighbors.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with lead teachers to develop an appropriate educational plan for children, which could include working with individual children or small groups of children to increase fundamental skills

• Conducting and interpreting informal and formal assessments to create individualized learning plans

• Conferring regularly with teachers, parents, and colleagues on The Child Study Team

• Promoting understanding of the role of successful differentiation in the classroom as well as an understanding of its limitations in the skills growth for any student in a school with an admirably diverse student population

• Providing strategies to increase learning for students being delivered by others as well as delivering tutoring or push-in services

• Sitting in on parent conferences and planning meetings

• Serving as a general resource to the faculty; presenting information to teachers regarding differentiation in their classrooms

• Working to ensure academic excellence by fully knowing students and adapting curriculum to meet needs

• Fulfilling all duties, responsibilities, and commitments as outlined in the school’s Guidebook and the organization’s code of conduct

• Keeping careful anecdotal and assessment records and using them to contribute to the writing of accurate, comprehensive reports that reflect student growth and support their future education

• Presenting information to teachers regarding differentiation in their classrooms

Qualifications/Requirements:

• B.A./B.S. degree or an equivalent degree or educational qualification in education from an accredited college or university

• Evidence of expertise in compensatory learning strategies, which could include reading methods such as Orton Gillingham

• Wide-ranging intellectual and educational interests and ability to understand and support an integrated curriculum

• Experience working individually with children who have a complex learning profile, both within a functioning classroom and individually in tutorial situations

• Experience strategizing techniques in study skills, time management, and organization as well as in curricular areas

• Strong skill sets in Literacy; Mathematics; administering and interpreting assessments; meeting the social and emotional needs of children

• Experience and interest in working with the latest technologies

• Commitment to diversity, collegiality, curriculum design, anecdotal record keeping, integrated thematic teaching

• Strong communication abilities including speaking and writing

• Commitment to equity and justice including knowledge and skills related to cultural competencies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in a related field

• At least two years’ full-time teaching experience in K-8 public or independent schools
• Experience teaching differentiation strategies to fellow faculty members
• Knowledge of Spanish

Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/126341 

The School at Columbia University is dedicated to promoting and advocating for diversity and inclusion within our school community. We celebrate many types of diversity including ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, ability, religion, sexual orientation, family configuration, language, gender and adoption status. 

Columbia University is an equal opportunity employer/disability/veteran.