Middle School Teachers
3 weeks ago
**Key Responsibilities**
- Establish and maintain a learning environment that excites, invests, and motivates students to achieve academic and behavioral expectations
- Design and implement organized, differentiated unit and lesson plans aligned with WCS' curriculum
- Work collaboratively with grade team, learning specialists, teaching assistants, and other staff to support student growth
- Build classroom community through the development of CARES values (CARES stands for Collaboration, Academic Excellence, Responsibility, Empathy and Self-Reflection)
- Consistently implement WCS' student management practices within the classroom and throughout school
- Establish and maintain relationships with families through regular communication, updates and opportunities for involvement
- Track student performance and use data from Wissahickon Charter School's internal assessments to drive instruction and behavior interventions
- Exemplify WCS' CARES values in all interactions with students, families and colleagues
- Seek out and be receptive to feedback from the school's administrators and peers with the goal of improving instructional and culture-building skills
- Participate in all professional development, team planning and data analysis meetings
- Assume other duties as assigned by the administrative team
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred
- Current or pending relevant teaching certification highly preferred
- Teaching experience in an urban setting
- Strong instructional and classroom management skills, with a record of increasing students' academic and behavioral growth
- Knowledge of Pennsylvania and Common Core Standards
- Receptiveness to feedback, positive attitude, and a desire to continuously improve
- Flexible and able to adjust instructional strategies in order to reach goals
- High level of personal organization, planning, and follow-through
- Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate with students, families, supervisors and colleagues
- Collaborative work style; including maturity, humility, and a sense of humor
- All required clearances
- A commitment to honest and open dialogue about race, equity and bias in our school systems and relationship
- Belief in Wissahickon Charter Schools' mission and environmental education model, and the belief that all children can learn and succeed
**About Wissahickon Charter School**
Wissahickon Charter School's first campus, Fernhill, opened in 2002 and serves 480 K-8 students from across Philadelphia. Our second K-8 campus, Awbury, opened in the fall of 2014. The mission of Wissahickon Charter School (WCS) is to provide a community of learning that stimulates and builds the child's intellectual, social, and character development. Wissahickon Charter Schools are planned around three essential elements: an environmental focus that allows students to experience the curriculum, recognition of service learning projects as key in students' success, and an emphasis on parents as partners in the learning experiences of their children.
- Wissahickon Charter School is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment, or in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, or other programs. We are committed to hiring a diverse staff and encourage those from traditionally under-represented backgrounds to apply._
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