Elementary Teacher

Exploris: K-8 Learning Community Exploris Elementary Campus
- Raleigh, North Carolina Open in Google Maps

Exploris: K-8 Learning Community Exploris Elementary Campus
- Raleigh, North Carolina Open in Google Maps

This job is also posted in North Carolina School Jobs

Job : 4158167

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Re-Posted: May 01, 2023 12:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Exploris School is looking for an innovative elementary teacher to co-teach in a combined classroom. Our elementary teachers collaborate with a co-teacher, combining two classes of students into one large classroom. Exploris teachers embrace the benefits and challenges inherent in co-teacher partnerships.

Exploris prides itself on the commitment, compassion, talent, and expertise of the people who work here. Parents choose to send their children to Exploris because they know their children will be taught by individuals who go above and beyond for the sake of student learning and who develop strong relationships with their students. We recognize that the teacher is the number one factor in student growth.

Teachers work closely with their colleagues, developing curriculum and helping shape the culture of the school in accordance with the school’s mission and its implementation of challenging, authentic project-based learning.

Exploris teachers must be compassionate, have the ability to develop meaningful connections with students, have strong classroom management skills, and are confident in their ability to create a psychologically safe classroom culture in which individuals are respected and valued for what they bring to the group.

We Seek Candidates with the Following

Qualifications:

• Appreciation for the life and mind of the elementary scholar.
• Appreciation for a project-based approach to curriculum design — commitment to develop curriculum that is relevant, student-centered, engaging and in-depth.
• Teaching experience (ideally in grades K-5) consistent with Exploris’s progressive, constructivist, exploratory, and project-based educational philosophy
• Engages with our Responsive Classroom techniques for strong classroom management and clear student expectations
• Reader, writer, critical thinker and attentive to current events that lead to opportunities to create learning experiences that guide students to make sense of the world in meaningful ways
• Skillful at using a variety of assessment methods and data to pinpoint students’ strengths and weaknesses and skillful at applying instructional practices to address diverse learning needs.
• Strong interpersonal skills, commitment to teamwork, willingness to learn, and readiness to reflect and grow.
• Values a highly collaborative approach to working with a diverse population of children and adults.
• Sense of humor and a high level of enthusiasm, flexibility, and spontaneity.

Interdisciplinary Project Work: Exploris teachers are all about student achievement, engagement, and understanding. We teach through a global education approach that utilizes interdisciplinary projects seeking to answer core driving questions. This means that we work to teach skills and concepts named in state/national standards through the context of compelling real-world investigations.

As an Exploris teacher, you’ll work closely with your partner co-teacher to create rich learning experiences that guide students to develop an in-depth understanding of concepts articulated in NC Essential Standards and the Common Core. We emphasize inquiry-based constructivist activities, simulations, and differentiated lessons that guide students to develop background knowledge from a variety of experiences. Teachers often partner with local…