Classroom Teacher

**CLASSROOM TEACHER - PHYSICAL EDUCATION - MSK**
- This position is scheduled to begin in August 2024._

RSU 21 serves 600 employees, 2400 students across three communities and has an annual budget of $52 million. As a Classroom Teacher, you will have an opportunity to serve as a dynamic leader, effective educator, and inspirational and impactful influence within your classroom. You will be expected to deliver measurable results through high-quality and intentional instructional planning, curriculum design, and curriculum delivery to improve student outcomes and transform students’ lives. As a Classroom Teacher you will:

- Establish expectations, routines, and procedures to provide a respectful, safe, positive, student-centered environment that maximizes opportunities for student learning
- Engage students in learning by using a variety of instructional strategies to meet individual learning goals and needs
- Set ambitious goals; gather, analyze, and use relevant data to measure student progress, guide instructional planning and delivery, and provide timely feedback to students, parents, and stakeholders
- Collaborate with colleagues to contribute to overall district effectiveness; and engage in professional reflection and growth that results in improved instructional practice and student learning
- Serve as a leader in our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the district, school, classroom and curriculum levels
- View leadership, professionalism, and effective communication as vital components of classroom teaching

**Responsibilities**:
**Curriculum and Planning**
- Identify and align lesson objectives to approved standards-based curriculum using student learning data and in-depth, individualized student knowledge to guide planning and differentiated instruction
- Develop appropriate long
- and short-range plans; adapt plans when needed based on real-time student performance and ongoing formative assessment results
- Incorporate educational technology into plans strategically and selectively to enhance student learning and instructional effectiveness

**Classroom Culture and Environment**
- Establish and maintain effective behavioral and instructional routines and procedures that maximize student learning time while creating and maintaining a safe physical setting
- Establish a climate of trust, collaboration, and teamwork by being fair, caring, respectful, inclusive, and enthusiastic
- Promote respectful interactions that challenge and engage all students within the learning environment
- Create an environment that is academically appropriate, stimulating, and challenging; encourages student participation, inquiry, and intellectual risk-taking; and treats learning time as a precious commodity
- Employ a balance of effective verbal, nonverbal, written, and digital communication tools to foster a positive, culturally inclusive learning environment that features and celebrates diverse voices and perspectives

**Instructional Delivery**
- Engage and maintain students in active, scaffolded, and rigorous learning that meets students where they are while building upon their existing knowledge and skills; differentiate and pace instruction to meet current and evolving students’ needs; address multiple intelligences and multiple learning styles
- Employ a variety of effective high-impact instructional strategies that develop students’ higher-level and critical thinking skills
- Maintain and communicate clear learning objectives, reinforce learning goals consistently throughout the lesson, communicate content clearly, and check for understanding ongoing through informal checks, and regular use of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments

**Data-driven and Goal-Based Academics Strategy**
- Ensure that instructional decision-making is driven by the analysis of comprehensive, relevant, accurate, and up-to-date student data
- Set, communicate, track, and invest students in both short
- and long-term goals that will result in meaningful student growth
- Involve students in setting learning goals and monitoring their own data-based progress
- Manage with a goals-based approach; create and maintain a classroom culture of ongoing accountability checks to gauge progress towards ambitious data-driven goals
- Track outcomes by student sub-groups, with a particular focus on minimizing achievement gaps by various identities

**Collaboration and Continuous Learning**
- Commit to and develop a deep, functional, and genuine collaborative relationship with colleagues to deepen collective instructional impact
- Seek and share feedback and input to ensure collaboration between shared grade teams and across grades, departments, disciplines and schools
- Commit to continuous learning and improvement for self, students, school, and district by identifying and scaling successful approaches, and by altering and discontinuing ineffective approaches
- Incorporate learning from formal and informal professi