AVID Teacher

2 months ago


Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States Charter Schools USA Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated AVID Teacher to join our team at Charter Schools USA. As an AVID Teacher, you will play a critical role in supporting student achievement and college and career readiness.

Key Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with AVID students, families, counselors, the AVID Coordinator, school leadership team, and teachers to develop strong relationships and impact instruction, systems, culture, and leadership schoolwide.
  • Lead Instructional Strategies: Use data to inform instruction and work alongside the AVID Coordinator to select students for the AVID Elective and hold interviews with the site team.
  • Establish High Expectations: Set and maintain high expectations for AVID students' achievement and collect and analyze AVID student data to regularly monitor academic progress.
  • Advocate for Student Success: Advocate for AVID students' access to and success in rigorous courses and teach and promote the use of WICOR instructional strategies across content areas.
  • Culturally Responsive Practice: Demonstrate a commitment to eliminating opportunity disparities and collaborate with tutors to effectively implement the tutorial process.
  • Professional Development: Attend summer institute, PATH, national conferences, regional trainings, and other professional development opportunities to increase AVID knowledge and systems of support for AVID students.
Requirements
  • Education: Minimum Bachelor's degree, Master's degree preferred.
  • Licensure: Valid Florida Department of Education License or ability to obtain one with an endorsement area in secondary certified area.
  • Experience: Demonstrated knowledge in the areas of lesson development, differentiation of rigor, reading and writing processes and strategies, language acquisition, culturally relevant teaching practices, and collaboration and organizational structures.
  • Skills: Knowledge of best practices in virtual teaching and learning in a synchronous and asynchronous environment, with Canvas learning management system experience preferred.
  • Personal Qualities: Demonstrates reliability, independence, leadership qualities, and interpersonal relationship skills necessary to work effectively as a team with students, teachers, tutors, administrators across two different school sites.
Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • No physical exertion required.
  • Somewhat stressful due to frequent student activity.
  • Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force as frequently as needed to move objects.