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Posted: 28-Mar-25
Location: Pomfret, Connecticut
Type: Full Time
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Job Purpose
Support the growth and success of students with unique learning profiles by implementing learning plans and engaging in individual support and instruction with students receiving learning support.
Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities
About Pomfret School
Pomfret School is an independent coeducational college preparatory boarding and day school for 355 students in grades 9 through 12 and postgraduates. Set on a beautiful 500-acre campus in Northeastern Connecticut and brought to life by an exceptional faculty, Pomfret offers a challenging and rewarding experience for students from various cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Through an engaging process of learning and leading, a commitment to service beyond self, and numerous opportunities for personal growth in academic, athletic, artistic, and residential settings, students emerge as ethical and active citizens of the world. With a clear mission, Pomfret School cultivates a healthy interdependence of mind, body, and spirit in its students as it prepares them for college and to lead and learn in a diverse and increasingly interconnected society. Pomfret School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law in administration of its employment, enrollment, or educational policies, tuition assistance programs or other administered programs.
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Posted: 28-Mar-25
Location: Pomfret, Connecticut
Type: Full Time
Categories
Other
Job Purpose
Support the growth and success of students with unique learning profiles by implementing learning plans and engaging in individual support and instruction with students receiving learning support.
Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities
- Work with students 1:1 and develop individualized, tailored curriculum plans to help them become strategic and self-advocating learners
- Work with faculty to develop effective teaching strategies that support the widest possible range of students
- Hold students accountable for appointments and assignments
- Work closely with the Director of Learning Support to meet the needs of students and advance the work of the Collaborative Learning Center
- Coach an athletic team or supervise an afternoon program for the equivalent of two out of three seasons
- Serve as a faculty advisor
- Live in a dormitory and/or participate in the residential life program, which includes a rotation of weeknight and weekend responsibilities
- Participate in the student life program QUEST and the academic program Project:Pomfret
- Attend faculty, school, departmental meetings, chapel services, and other required school functions and be available for weekly office hours
- Manage relationships with parents that support the social and emotional well-being, intellectual development, and independent personal responsibility of students
- Pursue growth in understanding and implementation of the most current educational practices
- Contribute knowledge, expertise, and passion for the ongoing collaborative effort to innovate and improve Pomfret’s curriculum
- Manage relationships with parents that support the social and emotional well-being, intellectual development, and independent personal responsibility of students
- Ability to work effectively with students, teachers, parents, and administration
- Must adhere to all School policies as outlined in the Employee Handbook
- Continually meet or exceed Pomfret School’s Standards of Behavior, Character, and Engagement
- Perform other duties as assigned
About Pomfret School
Pomfret School is an independent coeducational college preparatory boarding and day school for 355 students in grades 9 through 12 and postgraduates. Set on a beautiful 500-acre campus in Northeastern Connecticut and brought to life by an exceptional faculty, Pomfret offers a challenging and rewarding experience for students from various cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Through an engaging process of learning and leading, a commitment to service beyond self, and numerous opportunities for personal growth in academic, athletic, artistic, and residential settings, students emerge as ethical and active citizens of the world. With a clear mission, Pomfret School cultivates a healthy interdependence of mind, body, and spirit in its students as it prepares them for college and to lead and learn in a diverse and increasingly interconnected society. Pomfret School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law in administration of its employment, enrollment, or educational policies, tuition assistance programs or other administered programs.
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