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Job Description
At KIPP New Orleans, we see the gifts in everyone who walks through the doors of our schools. Especially our teachers. Their skill. Energy. Love. Their determination. On the good days, and the hard ones. So we support our teachers to make the most of those gifts in order to build academically excellent classrooms and create unlimited opportunities for all of our students.
The KIPP Difference | Together, a Future Without Limits
Respect: For our teachers’ innate talent and desire to learn, for their professional growth and the lives they lead beyond our walls.
Support: Our teachers always feel the KIPP Team and Family at their backs, with support to grow and opportunities to lead.
Purpose: Together, we share an ambitious mission to create a future without limits. And we need talented teachers to realize it.
As a KIPP New Orleans Teacher, your core responsibilities include:
Plan a program of study and unit/weekly/daily lessons that meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of the students as mapped out in their Individualized Education Plan
Create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and is developmentally appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students
Employ a variety of instructional techniques and instructional media consistent with best practices, specific content knowledge, and the needs and capabilities of the individuals or student groups involved
Develop and implement students’ Individual Education Plans and hold needed annual, re-evaluations, and requested IEP meetings.
Assist in helping students become independent with their self-help needs (bathroom, eating, dressing, etc.)
Implement a life skills and social emotional learning component as part of each day’s routine
Utilize diagnostic assessment tools to identify learning strengths and needs of every student, on a regular basis, for the purpose of intervention and/or acceleration toward academic and leadership standards
Take necessary and reasonable precautions to assure safety in the classroom and the school for all students
Employ a variety of positive behavioral strategies as well as write Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Intervention plans.
Maintain accurate, complete, and correct records as required by IDEA law, district policy, and administrative regulations
Assist the administrative team in implementing all policies and rules governing student life and conduct
Make provisions for being available to the students and to the parents for education-related purposes outside of the instructional day when required or requested to do so under reasonable terms
Provide time in the evening, by phone, for questions and concerns that students and/or parents may have regarding education-related issues that could not be handled during the school day
Maintain professional relationships with colleagues
Actively engage in all professional development opportunities
Perform other job-related duties as assigned