Math - Middle/High School (2016/17 School Year)

Description:

The Albert Einstein Academies for Letters, Arts and Sciences are non-profit, co-educational public charter schools dedicated to preparing students for excellence.  AEA schools offer a rigorous curriculum, which seeks to prepare students for advanced post-secondary education and 21st century lives as members of a democratic society and global economy.  The curriculum is designed to provide students with tools to develop their intellectual, physical, technological and social competencies, allowing them to graduate with a deep understanding of the relationships among disciplines, and the ability to continuously expand their intellectual integrity and curiosity.

Job Requirements:

• Maintain and enrich their expertise in the subject area they will teach;
• Develop lesson plans that ensure the attainment of state learning standards and the additional specific grade-by-grade learning standards set forth in the charter;
• Coordinate lesson plans with other teachers to maximize possibilities for teaching similar topics in the same general time frame, thus reinforcing student knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis;
• Provide direct and indirect instruction;
• Long and short-term planning addressing individual needs of students;
• Prepare students adequately for all required assessments;
• Evaluate students’ progress;
• Communicate directly with parents regarding student progress;
• Provide an inviting, exciting, innovative, learning environment;
• Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management;
• Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff;
• Serve as an advisor to a students, including organizing advisory groups, overseeing the academic and behavioral progress;
• Perform other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal.

• Demonstrated expertise in the subject they will teach, as evidenced by personal skills and knowledge, an undergraduate major or minor or graduate degree in the subject they will teach, or direct subject-area teaching experience;
• Valid California credential in the relevant subject area;
• Demonstrated communication skills;
• Demonstrated ability and experience to engage the interest of school-age children;
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse children, including those with special needs;
• Teaching experience in a public or private school, preferably in a middle school setting;
• Demonstrated ability to work well with parents;
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a team member;
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate tests and measurements of achievement;
• Demonstrated willingness to be held accountable for student results.