Math Lead Teacher, Grades 6 & 7

Salary Range: $62,000.00 To $ Annually

Job Title :
Math Lead Teacher, Grades 6 & 7

Dates:
School year,  (concludes June 30, 2027)

Hours :
School Hours. Hiring Manager will discuss specific arrival and departure times.

Compensation:
Codman Academy Charter Public School follows a compensation scale based on years of direct experience. 1 year experience (BA) starts at $62,000, and 9 years experience (MA+15) is $104,927.

Description:

The Math Lead Teacher, Grades 6 & 7 is responsible for planning, organizing and implementing an appropriate instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourages students to meet and exceed standards for the grade level/course. Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

Planning and Preparation for Learning

Knowledge
- Demonstrates subject area expertise and a cutting-edge grasp of child development and how students learn.

Standards
- Develops a well-honed game plan for the year that is tightly aligned with state standards and assessments.

Units
- Plans all expeditions backwards, aligned with high standards, state assessments, and all Bloom’s levels; documents and shares all lessons with supervisor at a minimum of two (2) weeks in advance.

Assessments
- Plans diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to closely monitor student learning.

Anticipation
- Anticipates students’ misconceptions and confusions and develops multiple strategies to overcome them.

Lessons
- Designs lessons with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and expedition outcomes.

Engagement
- Designs highly relevant lessons that will motivate all students and engage them in active learning

Materials
- Designs lessons that use an effective mix of high-quality, multicultural learning materials and technology.

Differentiation
- Designs lessons that break down complex tasks and address all learning needs, styles, and interests.

Environment
- Artfully uses room arrangement, materials, and displays to maximize student learning of all material, focusing on learning targets and student work.

Classroom Management

Expectations
- Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing high expectations.

Relationships
- Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all students and builds strong relationships.

Respect
- Wins all students’ respect and creates a climate in which disruption of learning is unthinkable.

Social-emotional
- Implements a program that successfully develops positive interactions and social-emotional skills.

Routines
- Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that students maintain them throughout the year.

Responsibility
- Successfully develops students’ self-discipline, self-confidence, and a sense of responsibility.

Repertoire
- Has a highly effective discipline repertoire and can capture and hold students’ attention any time.

Efficiency
- Skillfully uses coherence, momentum, and transitions so that every minute of the classroom time produces learning.

Prevention
- Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured and nips virtually all discipline problems in the bud.

Incentives
- Gets students to buy into a highly effective system of incentives linked to intrinsic rewards.

Delivery of Instruction

Expectations
- Exudes high expectations and determination and convinces all students that they will master the material.

Mindset
- Actively inculcates a “growth” mindset: take risks, learn from mistakes, through effective effort you can and will achieve at high levels.

Goals
- Shows students exactly what’s expected by posting learning targets, essential questions, rubrics, and exemplars.

Connections
- Hooks all students’ interest and makes connections into prior knowledge, experience, and reading.

Clarity
- Always presents material clearly and explicitly, with well-chosen examples and vivid and appropriate language.

Repertoire
- Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all students.

Engagement
- Engages all students in focused work in which they are active learners and problem solvers.

Differentiation
- Successfully reaches all students by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding.

Nimbleness
- Deftly adapts lessons and units to…