Urgently Require Foreign Language Teacher in Washington DC
Job title: Foreign Language Teacher
Company: Friendship Public Charter School
Job description: Friendship Public Charter School operates a thriving network of college preparatory public charter schools. Headquartered in Washington, DC. Friendship serves over 4,800 students in preschool to grade 12 and guides a growing network of alumni to college completion annually. Our mission is to prepare students to become ethical, literate, well-rounded and self-sufficient citizens by providing a world-class education that motivates students to reach high academic standards, to enjoy learning, to achieve success, and to contribute actively to their communities. For 25 years, with the support and guidance of our exceptional faculty, our students have risen to the challenge with high graduation rates, college acceptances and unparalleled success academically and socially.
Responsibilities
- ?Demonstrate continued mastery of content areas
- Lead students to high levels of academic success through rigorous, targeted, and differentiated instruction.
- Design and deliver engaging instruction addressing a full range of student needs and learning styles.
- Utilize literacy strategies across all content areas.
- Develop formal and informal assessments to measure student mastery.
- Use data to drive instruction.
- Hold students accountable to high academic and behavioral expectations.
- Align practices and routines to achievement-oriented classroom culture.
- Foster a safe environment that encourages curiosity, academic risk-taking, accountability, and collaboration.
- Reflect on classroom success and areas of improvement to continuously develop practice.
- Contribute to the campus and Friendship-wide community by collaborating, seeking professional development, and sharing best practices.
- Promote parent involvement through meaningful and consistent communication.
- Maintain high professional standards in communication with students, teachers, parents, and school administrators.
- Identify clear processes for universal screening, which will be used to identify scholars who need additional support.
- Establish a progress monitoring process and data collection procedures, including cut points and entrance/exit criteria.
- Meet with Instructional Support Teams at each site to provide support for intervention implementation.
- Ensure the development, identification, and establishment of interventions at Tier II(supplemental)and III(intensive) at each school site.
- Plan and implement teacher inservice and professional development at each school site.
- Assist sites in analyzing scholar needs and linking scholar needs to appropriate interventions for struggling scholars.
- Establish connections for MTSS framework and philosophy to other network initiatives.
- Identify expectations for the use of MTSS/RTI for both academics and behavioral concerns.
- Commitment to providing a world-class education to students from historically under-served communities.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
- Strong oral and writtencommunication skills
- Bachelor?s degree from an accredited university required.
- 2+ years urban teaching experience with significant academic gains strongly preferred
- Successful completion of the ETS PRAXIS I (Reading, Writing, and Math) or Praxis II (Content Knowledge Exam)