Floater Teacher

Job Title: FLOATER TEACHER
Classification: Full-Time, Exempt
Reports To: Principal

The Floater Teacher provides flexible, school-wide instructional support through guest teaching, co-teaching, intervention groups, classroom coverage, student supervision, and support for AXL Academy's daily academic and cultural routines. This role ensures continuity of instruction when classroom teachers are absent, supports targeted academic interventions, partners with teachers to strengthen instruction and classroom culture, and contributes to a safe, inclusive, and student-centered learning environment.

Floater Teachers serve as guest teachers across grade levels and content areas, co-teach or push into classrooms as needed, facilitate small-group intervention and enrichment, support fieldwork and school events, and provide supervision during key transition and community times. This position requires flexibility, strong instructional judgment, collaboration, and a commitment to AXL Academy's mission, culture, and equity-based practices.

• Serve as a guest teacher across grade levels and content areas when classroom teachers or instructional staff are absent.

• Implement lesson plans, instructional routines, classroom expectations, and learning activities to ensure continuity of instruction.

• Maintain a productive, safe, and inclusive classroom environment while serving in a guest teaching capacity.

• Use sound instructional judgment to adjust pacing, clarify directions, support student understanding, and respond to classroom needs.

• Communicate relevant classroom updates, student concerns, lesson progress, and follow-up needs to classroom teachers and school leadership.

• Support both planned and emergency coverage needs with flexibility and professionalism.

• Co-teach with classroom teachers to support whole-group, small-group, and differentiated instruction.

• Push into classrooms to provide additional instructional support, student engagement, classroom management, and behavior support.

• Collaborate with classroom teachers to reinforce lesson objectives, academic expectations, and student learning targets.

• Support project-based learning, expeditionary learning, fieldwork preparation, and hands‑on classroom experiences.

• Assist with academic differentiation, scaffolding, student conferencing, and formative checks for understanding.

• Help maintain strong classroom culture through consistent expectations, restorative practices, and positive student relationships.

• Lead targeted intervention groups in reading, writing, math, or other academic areas based on student needs and school priorities.

• Provide small-group instruction, reteaching, enrichment, and academic support aligned to teacher direction, student data, and learning targets.

• Monitor student progress during intervention groups and communicate patterns, needs, and next steps to teachers and leadership.

• Support multilingual learners, students receiving additional academic support, and students needing differentiated instructional access.

• Reinforce foundational skills, academic confidence, productive struggle, and student ownership of learning.

• Use instructional resources, assessments, and school systems to support intervention planning and implementation.

• Provide supervision during lunch, recess, arrival, dismissal, passing periods, and other school‑wide transition times.

• Monitor hallways, bathrooms, shared spaces, and outdoor areas to support safety, behavior expectations, and smooth transitions.

• Support fieldwork trips by actively engaging with scholars, reinforcing expectations, and collaborating with classroom teachers.

• Maintain visibility and presence in student‑facing spaces throughout the school day.

• Respond to student needs calmly, professionally, and in alignment with school culture systems.

• Support school operations and daily coverage needs as assigned by leadership.

• Communicate consistently with…