Elementary Interventionist Teacher, #863: Ingenium

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Job Title**: Multiple Subject K-5 Teacher** **Schedule**: 40 hrs/week min.

**Job Type**: Full-Time **FLSA Status**:Exempt

**Reports to**:Principal **Pay**:$62,235, starting (DOE); Salary Scale

**Special**:Requires weekend work, nights and early mornings, as needed.

**ABOUT INGENIUM SCHOOLS**

At Ingenium Schools, we create communities where everyone experiences joy and meaning in learning. We do this by preparing 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 through 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.

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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**:
Duties may include, but are not limited to:
**NETWORK 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.
- Instruct students individually and in groups using various teaching methods: lecture, discussion, demonstration, small group, student-led instruction, etc.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ differing needs and interests
- Prepare and implement intervention programs for students requiring extra help
- In harmony with curriculum and in connection with Common Core State Standards, establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students daily
- Prepare materials and classroom for class activities
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, and guide students in learning activities

**DATA DRIVEN**
- Consistently and accurately observe and assess students’ academic performance, behavior, social development, and physical health, both formally and informally, through observation, formative assessment, and written evaluation
- Provide frequent and timely feedback to students and parents on student progress
- Recommend resources to parents for additional student growth
- Timely deliver accurate and complete written and oral progress reports
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by law and Ingenium Schools’ policies
- Maintain individual and class goal folders to set learning goals and action plans and track learning process
- Maintain student confidentiality

**COLLABORATION**
- Confer with students and parents outside of the instructional day to resolve students’ behavioral