Co-teacher; Kinder, First, Second and Third Grade

Co-teacher (Kinder, First, Second and Third Grade)

Foundation Prep is a literacy‑focused elementary school. With a founding kindergarten and first grade integrated class, we opened in August of 2015. We are seeking passionate educators for the position of Co‑Teacher available for the 2017‑18 school year.

Teaching at Foundation Prep is an ideal position for an educator with passion for the craft of instruction and the desire to collaborate and grow as part of a dynamic team. In addition to summer, weekly, and interim professional development and team planning meetings, teachers will receive consistent high-impact coaching and feedback from Foundation Prep's Leadership. Foundation Prep is committed to recruiting, developing and retaining a team of excellent teachers!

• Assist in creating a positive, achievement-oriented, and structured learning environment that excites and invests students in learning. We will support you in implementing systems that allow students to achieve both academic and life success.
• Motivate students to realize high academic achievements. We are a literacy-focused school, dedicating over 200 minutes daily to literacy. Literacy is more than just reading and writing, but also listening and speaking. Our Prepsters engage in content through that lens. They learn through experience and talking, listening, writing and reading about the content they are being taught. It will be your responsibility to design and implement unit and lesson plans in collaboration with grade-level or content-level teams that challenge Prepsters and allow for many different types of learning.
• Assist in building classroom community by investing Prepsters in academic success and the development of the Foundation Prep FIRST values (Focus, Integrity, Respect, Self-discipline, and Teamwork). You will be asked to help create a classroom culture of learning that is aligned with the Foundation Prep Way.
• Utilize data from daily, weekly, and interim assessments to drive instruction and interventions. All our instruction occurs in small, targeted groups. In order to continue to be able to reach each of our Prepsters at their constantly growing academic levels, teachers analyze data and reconfigure lessons and groups to suit the needs of our students.
• Participate enthusiastically in structured and informal learning and development opportunities. As an experienced teacher, we know that you have accomplished a tremendous amount in crafting your skill. We expect you to collaborate with your coach, grade-level chair, and school team to improve instructional, culture-building, and leadership skills.
• Exemplify Foundation Prep’s core values in all interactions with students, families and colleagues. We believe in the power of relationships. We know our parents by first names, we know their phone numbers by heart, and we love our Prepsters.

• Certification or progress toward certification to be a highly qualified teacher in the state of Louisiana.
• An incredible work ethic and a passion for being part of a team-oriented, mission-driven, joyful school culture.
• Ability to grow strong instructional and classroom management skills.

• High level of personal organization and planning.
• Experience in diverse classrooms.
• Proficiency in Spanish or Vietnamese.
• Desire to have a long-term career in education.

Co‑teachers receive weekly coaching from leadership staff, daily real-time coaching from Coach, and mentoring from Lead teacher to hone their instructional and management skills, developing as a teacher. Co‑teacher should have or be working on their teaching certification and is committed to staying in the classroom, thus looking for opportunities to grow and lead their own class as the school grows.