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Elementary Dance Teacher, #1007: Ingenium Barack Obama Charter School, Compton, CA
2 weeks ago
Elementary Dance Teacher
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Dance Teacher (TK-5) Schedule: 40 hrs/week minimum
Job Type: Full-Time FLSA Status: Exempt
Reports to: Principal Pay: Starting $62,235 (DOE); Salary Scale
Special: Onsite working position; Requires weekend
work, nights and early mornings, and as needed
ABOUT INGENIUM SCHOOLS
Ingenium Schools is creating communities where everyone experiences joy and meaning in learning. We prepare our students to be the best learners, leaders, and collaborators by empowering them with the capacity and tools to continually improve themselves and the world around them. Since 2009, Ingenium Schools has helped students build confidence, leadership, and a lifelong love of learning with the Ingenium Learning System, an easily replicable, standards-based educational model that promotes personal mastery. Ingenium Schools currently operates several charter schools, serving students throughout Los Angeles County.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Teaching at Ingenium means you are part of a family. Building relationships with students, families, and each other is essential to our work. Teachers regularly communicate and collaborate in grade level, department, and school teams as well as with families to support all students’ academic, behavioral, and social-emotional success.
Teaching at Ingenium means empowering oneself and others. We believe that when learners are encouraged to take ownership over their educational experience, they attain higher levels of meaning and joy. Learners are supported in analyzing data and setting goals to work on continually improving individual, small group, class, grade-level, department, and school performance.
Teaching at Ingenium means serving diverse communities and student groups. Ingenium teachers acknowledge the strengths of the school communities they serve and incorporate culturally responsive teaching into their practice. An Ingenium teacher modifies and differentiates to meet the needs of students with varying backgrounds, learning styles, and special needs.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & JOB DUTIES:
KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
- Support the mission, vision, and core values of Ingenium Schools
- Strive to implement, by instruction and action, Ingenium Schools’ philosophy of education and instructional goals and objectives in connection with Ingenium’s Signature Practices
- Continuously maintain and improve professional competence
- Attend mandatory trainings, professional meetings, and educational conferences, as required
CLASSROOM CULTURE
- Build relationships with all students that demonstrate mutual respect and compassion
- Encourage students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior, measuring progress through individual and class goal setting
- Involve students in the process of the classroom including: creating a class Code of Cooperation, creating classroom procedures, and conflict resolution strategies
- Create a safe, developmentally appropriate classroom environment conducive to learning and based on student interests and goals
- Incorporate restorative justice and PBIS practices and implement social emotional learning curriculum
- Implement and support school/organizational policies governing student life and conduct
- Utilize educational technology including GoogleApps for Education to enhance learning experiences
ACADEMIC
- Design, implement, and monitor the learning experiences of each student.
- Explain and demonstrate dance techniques and dance history
- Display a passion for dance and share that passion with children
- Develop a scope and sequence of dance/movement standards and select those most important to skill-building over time
- Lessons should be fun, meaningful, and engaging
- Dance curriculum should build over time (not repeat) through the grades (the dance teacher will teach all grade levels (TK-5) each year, so curriculum must build)
- Instruct students individually and in groups using various teaching methods: lecture, discussion, demonstration, student-led instruction, etc.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ differing needs and interests
- In harmony with curriculum goals, establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students daily
- Prepare dance choreography and classroom for class activities
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, and guide students in learning from activities
DATA DRIVEN
- Provide frequent and timely feedback to students and parents on student behavior
- Maintain and accurate and complete student records as required by law and Ingenium Schools’ policies (e.g., student attendance)
- Maintain student confidentiality
COLLABORATION
- Confer with students and parents outside of the instructional day to resolve students’ behavioral and/or academic issues, as needed
- Maintain and improve professional competence and participate in professional development opportunities
- Actively participate in team meetings and serve on staff committees, school-wide events, parent workshops, and community partnership events
- Assist with school/organizational events, general supervision, extra-curricular support, tutoring, etc., as needed
- Perform related duties as assigned
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES
KNOWLEDGE OF:
- Highly effective teaching strategies for all student subgroups
- Physical skills and abilities of students from grades TK-5 to know what students can do developmentally
- Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to choreograph dances in various genres: hip-hop, jazz, step, etc.
- Principles and methods of curriculum design
- Effective measurements of learning/assessments, including diagnostic, formative and summative, performance tasks and project evaluation
- English language, including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar
- Basic mathematics
- Child cognitive development and learning styles
- Learning and motivational strategies that extend all students towards high personal achievement
- Computer application and Internet search skills
ABILITY TO:
- Work independently as a single specialist
- Establish a culture of high expectations based on the belief that all students can be successful
- Develop and implement learning experiences, lesson plans, and classroom activities based on the principles and theories of dance
- Analyze qualitative and quantitative student data; create and track efficacy of data-driven action plans
- Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Use computers, audiovisual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement student learning, as is appropriate
- Effectively collaborate with colleagues, parents, and community
- Manage student behavior to ensure every student is fully engaged, productive, and safe
- Maintain positive attitude
- Maintain regular attendance
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s Degree
REQUIRED LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES:
- Valid California teaching credential or permit required in single subject that authorizes teaching dance to TK-5th grade students
- English Language Learner Authorization required
- CPR/First Aid (provided by Ingenium post-hire)
WORKING CONDITIONS
ENVIRONMENT:
Majority of duties performed outdoors; exposure to childhood illness and diseases
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Ability to lift 40 pounds
- Ability to dance and demonstrate dance movements
- Ability to work outdoors
- Ability to communicate and comprehend orally and in writing
- Near and far vision
- Selective attention: ability to concentrate on a task without being distracted
- Time sharing: ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information
- Memorization: ability to remember information such as words, numbers, and procedures
- Problem Sensitivity: ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong
- Deductive and inductive reasoning skills
- Ability to plan and deliver effective instruction to students
- Ability to walk and/or stand for extended periods of time
- Some kneeling, squatting, bending, required
- Dexterity of hands to demonstrate activities is required
- Mathematical reasoning
- Ability to use a computer, mouse, and monitor
- Ability to use computer software and timely respond to emails
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s Degree
REQUIRED LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES:
- Valid California teaching credential or permit required in single subject that authorizes teaching dance to TK-5th grade students
- English Language Learner Authorization required
- CPR/First Aid (provided by Ingenium post-hire)
WORKING CONDITIONS
ENVIRONMENT:
Majority of duties performed outdoors; exposure to childhood illness and diseases
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Ability to lift 40 pounds
- Ability to dance and demonstrate dance movements
- Ability to work outdoors
- Ability to communicate and comprehend orally and in writing
- Near and far vision
- Selective attention: ability to concentrate on a task without being distracted
- Time sharing: ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information
- Memorization: ability to remember information such as words, numbers, and procedures
- Problem Sensitivity: ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong
- Deductive and inductive reasoning skills
- Ability to plan and deliver effective instruction to students
- Ability to walk and/or stand for extended periods of time
- Some kneeling, squatting, bending, required
- Dexterity of hands to demonstrate activities is required
- Mathematical reasoning
- Ability to use a computer, mouse, and monitor
- Ability to use computer software and timely respond to emails
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