Resource Teacher

Position: 1421 - RESOURCE TEACHER
Location: New York

The Teacher:
Special Education (SPED) is the subject matter expert at EMNRBS in understanding that all students deserve an equal chance to develop, grow and learn through the use of integrated and differentiated methodologies. Working within the Department:
Humanities, this role is central to ensuring students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) receive the high-quality, inclusive education they deserve, which is standards-aligned and supports the academic and social-emotional development of this specific subset of students.

This position requires a deep contextual understanding teaching pedagogy best practices, a high-level of technical skills in scope and sequence curriculum development; lesson plan creation and delivery (particularly differentiated lesson concepts and creation), very strong collaboration and organizational skills, and a real-world understanding that teaching is truly an act of servant leadership that goes beyond an 8 hours/day, 5 days/week job.

Reporting to EMNRBS’ Director:
Exceptional Learning and Wellness, this full-time instructional staff position will work in an Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) model with an assigned Teacher within the Department:
Humanities to ensure all students have a robust ecosystem that supports academic achievement and high accountability standards. This position can also expect to work in close collaboration with an assigned Counselor:
Guidance Primary Duties and Responsibilities Work with the Director:
Exceptional Learning and Wellness to gather and use data to help improve the SPED program in order to deliver excellent results, teaches students to develop both their creative and expository writing skills, master editing techniques, merge historical content with modern themes in today’s literature, and show students the connections between the humanities and technology

Co-Teach sections of Humanities, leveraging both class time and prep opportunities like Mock Exams and Saturday prep to help ensure that all identified IEP students are on track to pass the Regents Exam in grade and have all necessary accommodations as required by NYSPossibly teach one section of grade SETSSRegularly communicate with students’ families in order to build strong relationships with students, families, and the Bronx community

Lead an advisory, supporting and mentoring 20-25 students and building close relationships with their families

Collaborate with faculty, students, and parents to build an innovative, exciting, and effective school model that achieves our mission and impacts education reform nationwide

Work closely with assigned Teacher:
Humanities to ensure all class materials are differentiated for SpEd students well-ahead of time; to develop lesson plans, provide students with grades and timely feedback, modify instruction, incorporate high leverage co-teaching models, utilize study data to inform lesson planning, schedule and attend regular planning and norming meetings, prepare for and attend IEP meetings

Attend weekly 2x1 meetings with direct manager and co-teacher, attend 1x1 meetings with direct manager, attend weekly department meetings

Attend professional development opportunities both on campus and in collaboration with outside organizations

Incorporate equity into curriculum, lesson design, instruction

Collaborate with teachers across the SPED department and Humanities department to execute on interdisciplinary initiatives and competency/standard alignment

Be receptive to receiving vertical and lateral feedback from colleagues as well as managers

Performs other related duties as assigned, which may include:

Various “After” School Day Activities such as 9th Grade Orientation, Back to School Night, Parent-Teacher & Student-Teacher Conferences, etc.

Instructional Evaluations One of the main tenants that serves as a basis of quality instruction at EMNRBS is that of efficient and effective instructional feedback given to teachers on a consistent and regular basis. With this in mind, EMNRBS uses the Marshall Teacher Evaluation Rubric which is broken into the following domains that are used for the formal performance evaluations of all instructional staff:

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