Master Team Reach Teacher; MTRT

Overview

POSITION: Master Team Reach Teacher (MTRT)

EXEMPT STATUS: Exempt

NUMBER OF DAYS: According to district approved calendar + 5 days during the summer

DEPARTMENT: Talent Development

REPORTS TO: Principal

SUPERVISES: As assigned

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Valid teaching certificate
• Minimum of 3 years of successful classroom teaching experience

EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated effectiveness working with people who have differing cultural backgrounds and/or personal characteristics, including race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or economic differences. Preference is given for experience working successfully with those of similar demographics to the desired school placement.

Special Knowledge/Skills

• Knowledge of subject matter being taught.
• Prior evidence of high-progress student outcomes in the relevant subjects (students making at least one year’s growth during the academic year).
• Organizational skills and ability to influence others, indicating high potential to improve student outcomes.

The Master Team Reach Teacher (MTRT) serves on a multi-classroom leader’s (MCL’s) team, directly teaching more students than usual, but typically without raising instructional group sizes. Master team reach teachers also help the MCL lead a larger team (e.g., by coaching part of the team) and/or reaching significantly more students than other teachers. Additionally, the MTRT has previously produced consistently high-growth student learning.

With guidance from the team’s MCL, MRTs plan and deliver instruction for multiple classes in a school where students rotate between face-to-face learning with the teacher and digital or offline learning supervised by a paraprofessional known as a reach associate or a teacher resident. While one class of students is with a reach associate, the MTRT teaches another class of students, focusing on delivering personalized and enriched instruction.

Each MTRT is responsible for co-planning, co-preparing, and delivering instruction, and co-monitoring student progress to determine instructional needs. MTRTs are also responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of instruction supervised by the reach associate(s) and making or recommending changes. The MTRT collaborates with others working with the same students or subjects, including other members of the multi-classroom leader’s team as well as tutors or reach associates, to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high-progress, enriched learning for every student.

In elementary schools, teachers may specialize by subject.

• Set high expectations of achievement that are ambitious and measurable for students.
• Plan backward to align all lessons, activities, and assessments in designated subject(s).
• Design in-person instruction that is enriched (developing higher-order thinking skills) and personalized (reflecting learning levels and interests of individual students).
• Design personalized digital or offline assignments for students while under reach associate supervision.
• Design assessments that accurately assess student growth.
• Determine how students spend all instructional time.
• Participates in monthly professional development.

• Hold students accountable for high expectations of behavior and engagement.
• Create physical classroom environments conducive to collaborative and individual learning.
• Establish a culture of respect, enthusiasm, and rapport.

• Hold students accountable for ambitious, measurable standards of academic achievement.
• Identify and address individual students’ social, emotional, and behavioral learning needs and barriers.
• Identify and address individual students’ development of organizational and time-management skills.
• Invest students in learning with several influence methods
• Incorporate questioning and discussion in student learning.
• Incorporate small-group and individual instruction to personalize and tailor instruction to individual needs.
• Monitor and analyze student assessment data to inform personalized, enriched instruction.
• Provide reach associate with student…