Lower School Homeroom Teacher
Roland Park Country School
- Baltimore, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Build a strong classroom community with positive communication skills.
- Build an open and trusting relationship with staff, children, and families.
- Create an engaging, student-centered environment where there is provision for individual, small and large group work.
- Communicate effectively and regularly with parents about academic content, individual student progress, and Well-Being.
- Increase cultural competence to work effectively with families of all backgrounds.
- Plan, develop, and implement an engaging curriculum based on grade-level standards and benchmarks.
- Plan, prepare, and deliver instructional activities that facilitate active learning experiences.
- Design learning targets, scope and sequence, and pacing guides as part of the All-School curriculum mapping process.
- Plan daily developmentally appropriate work for students using various materials.
- Maintain regular communication with grade level team and resource teachers.
- Provide a culturally relevant, literacy-rich learning environment with a variety of print materials appealing to diverse levels, learning styles, and interests.
- Stay abreast of current research based on best practices.
- Track student progress in subjects taught and communicate progress through the four report card periods.
- Participate in regular evaluation process, observations, feedback conferences, self-evaluation, and goal setting to refine practice.
- Attends meetings, including but not limited to team, department, and divisional, Lower School morning meetings, all-employee meetings, and all-school functions.
- Participate in professional development, including in-service training to enhance knowledge of curriculum and pedagogy.
- Other reasonable duties as assigned from time to time by the Lower School Head or Head of School.
- Has strong organizational skills.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate technology in content delivery/skill development.
- Must be able to maintain confidentiality and have good judgment and decision-making skills.
- A commitment to culturally competent teaching.
- Familiarity with giving and receiving feedback for professional growth.
- Growth mindset, flexibility, and openness to collaboration and experimentation.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability and desire to work with children.
- Ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment and respect different values and viewpoints.
- Is willing to engage across differences with empathy and understanding.
- Knowledge and commitment around diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and the impact it has on the classroom climate and curriculum.
- Bachelor's degree in elementary education or related field. Graduate degree preferred.
- Minimum of three years of demonstrated excellence in teaching at the elementary level. Experience with Responsive Classroom is preferred.
- Must be able to ascend/descend stairs in a school building.
- Must be able to assume postures in low levels to allow physical and visual contact with children, see and hear well enough to keep children safe, and engage in physical activity with children.
- Requires ability to turn, sit, bend, reach, squat, kneel, crawl, stoop, push, pull, walk around campus, and stand for prolonged periods.
- Must be physically able to lift a minimum of 40 pounds and regularly work indoors or outdoors.
- The Lower School Homeroom Teacher is a full-time, exempt position.
- The individual in this position is expected to work during all hours as may be assigned by the School and during other hours for events and activities.
- The Lower School Homeroom Teacher is expected to perform their job duties on campus unless otherwise permitted by the Head of School.
- As a condition of employment, all employees hired after August 1, 2021, are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and be able to provide proof of such vaccination.