Classroom Teacher - Liberty Elementary; Primary Building

Job Summary

Under the direction of district administrators, the Classroom Teacher is responsible for developing lesson plans to present district curriculum in assigned instructional subjects; instructing students using lesson plans and instructional material; and evaluating and assessing student progress against instructional outcomes and objectives.

• Creates community and builds relationships with students, families, and peers.
• Establishes positive and supportive relationships with students.
• Develops a plan to sustain, repair, and improve relationships with students.
• Promotes the development of relationships among students.
• Creates and sustains a classroom culture that fosters collaboration, inclusion, and focuses on student engagement, learning, and achievement.
• Develops professional and collaborative relationships among peers.
• Establishes procedures and practices to communicate effectively and frequently with families (generally and for specific students).
• Establishes routines, rituals, and procedures.
• Identifies, models, and reinforces procedures that build and sustain a collaborative community.
• Identifies, models, and reinforces procedures that support effective classroom management.
• Identifies and communicates procedures that promote student engagement, learning, and achievement.
• Models and reinforces procedures, routines, rituals, and expected behaviors through direct instruction, individual coaching, and feedback.
• Plans for and responds appropriately to behaviors disruptive to teaching and learning.
• Integrates routines, rituals, and procedures to promote effective transitions and maximize teaching and learning time.
• Organizes for engagement.
• Structures a learning environment that facilitates collaborative learning opportunities.
• Structures a learning environment that responds to learning preferences and needs.
• Displays and uses culturally inclusive resources and materials aligned to curricular concepts.
• Arranges the learning environment to support effective behavior management.
• Proactively addresses behaviors and maintains an orderly learning environment.
• Facilitates instructional strategies that promote student agency.
• Utilizes and responds to data/information, including the development and use of assessments.
• Identifies, analyzes, and responds to a variety of student data to address learner variability.
• Applies understanding of student needs and characteristics into instructional planning and assessment development.
• Uses metacognitive strategies by utilizing self‑ and peer‑assessment.
• Develops, communicates, and engages students in understanding success criteria for lesson‑sized learning targets, formative assessments, and summative assessments.
• Plans and delivers effective instruction.
• Applies understanding of learner variability to inform instructional planning.
• Accesses and utilizes curricular resources and materials aligned to essential learning outcomes (ELOs) and lesson‑sized learning targets.
• Demonstrates the effective use of instructional planning components:
  Launch, Explore, Summarize.
• Reflects on instruction, demonstrating use of metacognitive practices.
• Consistently employs teacher-as‑facilitator strategies and promotes student agency.