What are the responsibilities and job description for the 7th/8th Grade Classroom Teacher (multi-subject) position at Academy for Advanced and Creative Learning?
This position is for a terrific group of students. In the second semester 2023, it includes a 7th/8th grade homeroom where social-emotional learning lessons are taught, a level 8 reading/writing class, a level 8 social studies class, and small group math intervention support with tools provided. The teaching team of 5th-8th grade teachers is highly supportive and collaborative, and we are seeking a great fit for our students and team.
Organization Name: AcademyACL
Title of Position: Classroom Teacher (especially Grades 7-8), all subjects
Position Type: Full-Time
Start Date: January 2023 - June 30, 2023
Pay Range:
Teachers (including Psychologists, Occupational, Therapists, Physical Therapists, and Counselors) hired into AcademyACL are placed on the appropriate job band level based on the following factors:
a) the educational background of the applicant and
b) the number of years of prior job related experience
The minimum salary for a this position is $41,120/yr and the maximum salary is $54,000 /yr.
Benefits:
- This position is eligible for benefits. Benefits include the following: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employer Paid Life Insurance, Employer paid Short Term and Long-term Disability, Flexible Spending Account and Employee Assistance Program.
- Bonuses and stipends available as funding allows.
- As members of the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA), AcademyACL employees contribute to PERA; AcademyACL employees do not contribute to, nor receive, Social Security benefits for this employment.
- Beginning January 1, 2021, the state of Colorado enacted the Healthy Family & Workplaces Act (HFWA). AcademyACL exceeds the requirements of this act for paid time off.
Location: 2510 N. Chestnut Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80907
VISION: We will create an academic home for advanced and creative learning, cultivate personal and standards-based excellence and leadership ability, and serve as a resource center for the gifted community of the Pikes Peak Region.
MISSION: Our students and staff will investigate ideas and master advanced content, reflect upon their own progress, explore connections between disciplines, and lead others in positive ways to new heights in achievement and service to the community.
Description of Responsibilities/Experience/Skillset:
All teachers must meet the requirement of a "highly qualified teacher" as mandated by Colorado law. Requirements are as follows:
A. Must have obtained a Bachelor's degree or higher;
B. Must have demonstrated competency in the core academic subject area(s) that he/she teaches by passing a content area test or enough hours to be equivalent to a major (24 semester hours). The core academic areas are English; Reading or Language Arts; Mathematics; Science; Foreign Languages; Social Studies (Civics, Government, Economics, History, Geography); the Arts (visual arts, Drama, Music).
≈ Must be “highly qualified” under an elementary model to teach all core subjects, including those at the 6th -8th grade levels.
C. May have licensure/endorsement: The 3rd requirement, as mandated for public school employees, is Colorado teaching license/certification. As a charter school, AcademyACL has waived the requirement for state certification in order to provide its students with access to excellent teachers who are otherwise highly qualified.
AcademyACL holds strong preference for teachers who hold Colorado licensure and gifted education endorsements.
Candidate should have concentrations, research, and/or experience, AND/OR be prepared to continue to develop skill and expertise, in the following areas:
- Curriculum & Instruction for K8 Elementary Model expectations
- Gifted Education
Candidate should be prepared to continually renew or achieve initial Colorado teaching licensure status, and to pursue Gifted Education Endorsement, if hired.
Required Skills:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent people-skills that include advocacy, teamwork, co-teaching, and conflict resolution skills
-Technology skills
- Consistent implementation of high standards for educational ethics and best practices
- High capacity in all academic content areas for expected level of the position
- Understanding and willingness to support learners with a variety of gifted educational needs and intensities, including twice-exceptional students; typical learning needs; and special education needs
- Personal Growth Mindset that welcomes and applies coaching feedback and celebrates goals
Job Summary: The Classroom Teacher is expected to provide a highly challenging, highly supportive gifted education program that meets the vision and the mission of AcademyACL under the guidance of the Academy Director. The Classroom Teacher is entrusted with the education and support of students in his/her homeroom classroom and additional students for a particular subject or time period as appropriate. Teachers are expected to consider every student in the building as “my student”, and to build relationships with other students in the teaching team and within the school as possible and appropriate. Teachers are expected to instruct and support a wide range of developmental needs in multi-age classrooms. Teachers are expected to support all other teachers and staff members in the mission of AcademyACL. Classroom teachers are expected to contribute to a highly challenging and highly supportive school climate that is aligned with best practices in gifted education.
AcademyACL uses an elementary model instrution where all core teachers providing instruction in all core subjects; and a secondary model of students traveling to assigned classes in literacy and in math regardless of their grade level. Each Division teacher has a homeroom class of the assigned two grade levels for Lifeskills (social-emotional learning) and for science and history; and an assigned level of reading/writing and an assigned level of math (with qualifications and expertise taken into account) from a given level of Colorado Academic Standards that may have multiple grade levels of students attending that level of instruction.
Physical Requirements:
The work is mostly walking and standing with periods of sitting. Typical positions require workers to lift and carry up to 20 pounds; climb stairs, ladders or scaffolding; bend and crouch; reach, hold, grasp and turn objects; use fingers to operate computer or typewriter keyboards; demonstrate an athletic activity or physical exercise; feel the shape, size and temperature of objects; and physically restrain students. The work requires the ability to speak normally, to use normal or aided vision and hearing, and to detect odors.
This job may require safety strategies for supporting students who are working on behavior plans, such as CPI/Crisis Prevention training and techniques designed to protect students and self from injury. This job also requires emotional stamina and personal stress management to maintain a positive approach with students, parents, families, and colleagues throughout the entire scheduled time, including students with very high energy and some with low impulse control.
FLSA Status
Exempt
Organization Information: AcademyACL is a K-8 Charter School in Colorado Springs School District 11 specializing in gifted & talented education. Please visit our website at www.academyacl.org for more information.
AcademyACL is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Salary : $41,120 - $54,000