Teacher Collaborator - Physical Education

The PE Collaborator encourages all leaders to develop lifelong habits of healthy physical activity. PE Collaborator implements an instructional program that fosters learning and growth, creates a supportive learning environment that enables acquisition of skills and knowledge, and guides leaders toward reaching their academic, social, intellectual and physical potential.

• to eliminate the prolific racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident, creative and compassionate leaders;
• Practice the values of KairosPDX in professional conduct and daily interactions:
  • respect, responsibility, honesty, excellence and service to community
• Incorporate the beliefs of KairosPDX in all approaches and instruction:
  • Every child is uniquely capable, innately curious and inherently creative,
  • Character and agency are essential to achievement and are developed through relationship and service to others,
  • A multi- cultural context delivers a strong sense of self and is a requirement for participation in our global society,
  • Children must be supported in the context of their families;
  • Support multicultural practice, instructional and inquiry based approaches that are:
    • Actively anti-racist – confronting bias in all of its forms,
    • Education for social justice – acknowledging history and studying the present to make informed decisions regarding a more equitable future,
    • Pervasive – Examining practices in all levels of school culture and organization,
    • Personal –Beginning with the necessary consideration of self as a cultural being,
    • Critical Pedagogy – Pursuing multiple perspectives, anticipating contradictions and challenging assumptions,
    • Empowering – Providing children the ego strength to challenge racist societal views,
    • Helping children think deeply about themselves and others.

• Create a learning environment designed to build skill, confidence and a positive cultural and academic identity
• Research, implement and align curriculum, instructional strategies, and student assessment to the Common Core
• Develop and track standards, growth and learning goals for each student including use of baseline and progression data, identifying strategies, measures and evidence of progress standards
• Responsible for planning for and orchestrating academic, social, emotional and cultural identity growth outcomes
• Collaborate with Science Collaborator and instructional staff to schedule lessons serving all KairosPDX students
• Collaborate with Science Collaborator to design and implement specific lessons for Community Action Sessions CAS
• Stay current with new content and information in a rapidly changing environment
• Hold student outcomes, aspirations, and involvement at the center of plans aimed to increase student growth and achievement
• Teach and manage a classroom with approximately 20-40 students
• Discipline students in a fair and consistent manner, using clear routines and expectations as well as school approved behavior support techniques
• Interpret, plan and work toward the goals of the learning community
• Plan and prepare the environment for the academic and non-academic needs of students
• Assess for progress in the academic, social, emotional and cultural domains of student development;
• Align curriculum, instructional strategies, and student assessment to the Common Core
• Document and maintain educational records for each student in the classroom
• Utilize data to inform instruction
• Work with a team of colleagues and families to provide a nurturing and positive climate that encourages student responsibility and intrinsic motivation
• Plans lessons based on grade-level standards that are meaningful and differentiated to meet student needs, that are relevantly linked beyond the task-at-hand, and that help all students learn and apply transferable knowledge and skills.
• Communicates with care, respect, proactivity and professionalism to students, parents, colleagues, and all school personnel. Communicates, both verbally and in writing, in a manner that builds and enhances powerful relationships with students, their families, and members of the school community
• Plans lessons that are intentionally linked to…