Full-time Long Term Substitute Special Education teaching position is available from approximately September 30 through November 11, 2020.
Application deadline: 8/14/2020 or until filled
Minnesota Association of School Administrators
Full-time Long Term Substitute Special Education teaching position is available from approximately September 30 through November 11, 2020.
Application deadline: 8/14/2020 or until filled
Posting dates: 7/13/20 thru 7/17/20 or until filled
Hours: Monday thru Friday, 8.0 hours per day – 10 month
Primary Objective: Community/Cultural Liaisons serve as a bridge; student-to-student; student-to-school; school-to-family and family-to-community. The focus is on engaging, supporting and empowering students of color, immigrant and refugee students, or students otherwise isolated, in order to increase and improve communication and cultural understanding, resolve concerns student-student, student to school, and school to family, and increase protective factors for students. Build long-term, meaningful relationships with diverse families resulting in more parent involvement and student success. This position will work closely with families and students.
Qualifications:Minimum of four year College Degree or Equivalent Education.
Proven ability to work in collaboration with schools and community resources.
Proven ability to work respectfully and responsively with diverse populations of youth and families, community members, health and human service providers, city and county government and educators.
Possess a strength-based, child/youth-family centered philosophy.
Desired Qualifications:Strong child/youth advocacy and mediation skills.
Understanding of the concept of equity in education.
Understanding of school policy and best practices in Youth Development, Cultural Competency, and Special Education.
Excellent interpersonal skills, including strong verbal and written communication skills.
Experience facilitating and leading groups of educators, children and youth.
Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to successfully manage multiple assignments independently and with high and consistent follow through.
Proven ability to work in a diverse team environment
Knowledge of and/or willingness to learn about Suburban Ramsey community needs, initiatives and resources.
Ability to work independently and in a self-directed manner.
Job Responsibilities/Principal Duties:Enhance meaningful and authentic youth engagement, involvement and leadership in both school and community.
Utilize culturally and linguistically competent/relevant and respectful approaches at all levels of service and in all interventions.
Bridge communication and cultural understanding to resolve concerns in the following situations: student-student, student to school, and school to family.
Help families access to school resources.
Make phone calls (interpret when necessary) to families regarding recurring academic, concerns, attendance, health, lunch accounts, field trips or behavior issues or other requests by principals.
Act as a resource to school and community agency staff regarding working with students and families from other cultures.
Work to create increased school connectedness by supporting culturally inclusive clubs, character building activities, community building activities, service learning projects, cross cultural events, and student leadership activities.
Assisting with compiling annual reports.
Academia Cesar Chavez is dedicated to providing a quality dual-language education that prepares critically thinking, socially competent, values driven, culturally aware bilingual and biliterate learners by advocating Latino cultural values in an environment of familia and community.
Position Purpose:
To provide an enriching academic development and learning environment that promotes learning and is appropriate to the maturity, interests and learning styles of ACC students. Develop a linguistically and culturally appropriate educational program. Work with directors, educational team and other staff to ensure ACC’s mission, values, vision and curriculum objectives are supported, modeled, infused throughout the curriculum, and taught to the students.
Line/Staff Relationship:
Immediate Supervisor: ACC Principal
Work closely with Support Staff, Administrative Assistants, other Teachers, Coaches, etc.
Nature of Work:
Duties will include implementing curriculum that incorporates MN state standards, Latino culture into everyday lessons and activities, creating and maintaining an appropriate classroom physical environment, providing cultural experiences based in Latino cultures, setting up a classroom that is labeled both in Spanish and English, conducting literacy and math assessments, and communicating and engaging parents.
Major Functions and Responsibilities:
Work cooperatively with school personnel to accomplish the goals and objectives of ACC
Implement valuable and culturally relevant lessons using methods that are appropriate to the levels of language proficiencies of the students
Respect and incorporate the culture, values, history, language, experience and traditions of the students
Deliver differentiated instruction to all students at all ability levels
Implement dual language curriculum in a 60/40 model
Participate actively in weekly PLC’s (Professional Learning Community), bi-weekly staff/team meetings and serves on various school committees
Integrate Latino culture/arts into the curriculum
Plans for and guides the learning process to help students achieve program objectives
Meet with related school personnel, i.e. school counselor and special education teachers to coordinate objectives for IEP’s (individualized educational programs)
Maintains a classroom atmosphere conducive to learning, incorporating social skills instruction o assist students in establishing/maintaining positive classroom and social behavior
Conduct home visits to each family in the classroom and maintain frequent collaboration/communication with student’s families or guardians
Implements useful diagnostic and progress assessment measures, school-wide assessments
Uses effective instructional methods and learning materials
Establishes a cooperative relationship with all assigned students
Engages in professional growth activities through ongoing personal development, skill and knowledge development
Provide positive feedback and reinforcement to students
Abide by professional code of ethics
Utilize specialized approaches for delivering understandable curriculum to second language learners and teach English language development and/or Spanish language development
Develop consistent rules of classroom behavior and procedures, set strong boundaries and high expectations of student behavior
Maintain order in the classroom in a fair and just manner that incorporates ACC values and Responsive Classroom methods
Plan and supervise purposeful assignments for volunteer(s)
Be available to work evening hours and weekends on occasion
Participate in non-teaching extracurricular activities associated with the school
Other duties as assigned by the principal
Competencies:
Demonstrated bi-lingual/bi-literacy in English & Spanish
Demonstrate excellent knowledge of innovative teaching methods
Demonstrate excellent knowledge of Latino culture or be willing to research
Demonstrated previous teaching and/or instructional experience in an inner city setting and/or work with urban youth
Ability to integrate technology into the classroom
Demonstrate interest in public school reform and social justice
Commit to the mission, values, and vision upon which the school was founded
Create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity, interests and learning styles of the students
Work with families and students from diverse educational, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds
Problem-solve and critically assess the skills a student needs using a variety of data
Ability to take advantage of children’s individual interests and use their internal motivation for developing needed skills
Effectively utilize a student’s individual interests and use their internal motivation for developing needed skills
Set high expectations for all students and provide daily success opportunities for all students
Special Education Teacher
Academia Cesar Chavez is dedicated to providing a quality dual-language education which prepares critically thinking, socially competent, values driven, and culturally aware bilingual and bi-literate learners by advocating Latino cultural values in an environment of familia and community. Academia Cesar Chavez is dedicated to raising the bar and closing the achievement gap for Latino children. Academia Cesar Chavez is a public school open to all students and their families at no cost. We offer services to students and their families in a culturally sensitive and personalized way. Academia Cesar Chavez admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin. We are recruiting a Special Education Teacher for the 2020 – 2021 school year.
Position Purpose:
Under the supervision of the Head of School and special education coordinator, SPED teachers will perform difficult professional work providing broad range of teaching and direct instructional services or specific learning programs, assist scholars to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed as a foundation for future learning in accordance with each scholars’ ability, and use a variety of teaching and learning methods at various levels to a targeted audience, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work with directors, educational team, other staff and parents to ensure ACC’s mission, values, vision, and curriculum objectives are supported, modeled and taught to the scholars.
*This is subject to change
Line/Staff Relationship:
Immediate supervisor: Head of School
Works closely with SPED Coordinator, SPED Educational Partners, SPED Director, classroom teachers and other support staff.
Nature of work:
Duties will include implementing curriculum that incorporates MN state standards, Latino culture into every day lessons and activities, creating and maintaining an appropriate classroom physical environment, providing cultural experiences based in Latino cultures, setting up a classroom that is labeled in both Spanish and English, meeting weekly with specialist and team to plan, conducting literacy and math assessments, analyzing data, and communicating and engaging parents.
Major Functions and Responsibilities:
Provides research-based special sized instruction to address the instructional goals and objectives contained within each scholar’s IEP
Assess scholar progress and determine the need for additional reinforcement or adjustments to instructional techniques
Employs various teaching techniques, methods and principles of learning to enable scholars to meet their IEP goals
Develops and implements annual Individualized Educational Program (IEP) plans for scholars
Maintain compliance of a case load of 10 to 18 scholars ranging in disabilities
Adheres to procedural requirements, include due process timelines
Prepares and maintains accurate and complete records and reports as required by law, state directives and school board
Attends training sessions, conferences, seminars, district and departmental meetings
Remains at school during the entire school day unless excused by the Head of School or the designated representative
Ensures the adequate supervision to assure health, welfare and safety of all scholars
Maintains a professional appearance as an example for scholars
Other duties as assigned by Head of School and/or Sped Coordinator
Competencies:
Demonstrate knowledge of innovative teaching methods
Demonstrate knowledge of Latino culture
Demonstrate previous experience in an inner city setting and work with urban youth
Demonstrate interest in public school reform and social justice
Commit to the mission, values and vision upon which the school was founded
Ability to respond to changing needs and requirements of working in a charter school
Work effectively as a team with Special Education educators, service providers and specialists and collaborate with other staff and members of the school community
Work with families and students from diverse educational, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds
Problem-solve and critically assess the skills a student may need
The ability to use children’s individual interest and use their internal motivation for developing needed skills
Learn how to value non-academic skills that students bring to class, in conjunction with academic skills
Provide daily success opportunities for all students
Ability to stay calm, handle and assist students during high stress situations
Academia Cesar Chavez is dedicated to providing a quality dual language education which prepares critically thinking, socially competent, values driven, and culturally aware bilingual and bi-literate learners by advocating Latino cultural values in an environment of familia and community. Academia Cesar Chavez is dedicated to raising the bar and closing the achievement gap for Latino children. Academia Cesar Chavez is a public school open to all students and their families at no cost. We offer services to students and their families in a culturally sensitive and personalized way. Academia Cesar Chavez admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin.
We are recruiting a 7th and 8th Math Teacher for the 2020 – 2021 school year. Our teachers provide an enriching development and learning environment that promotes academic learning and is appropriate to the maturity, and interest development levels of students. They will develop a linguistically and culturally appropriate educational program.
The teacher will:
To learn more about Academia Cesar Chavez, please visit our website at www.cesarchavezschool.com
Chinese Teacher
Chaska High School
For specific information contact Kathy Fontes at [email protected]
Start Date: August 2020
FTE/Hours: .20 FTE / hours to de determined
Banded/Graded: C-5-2
Responsible To: Building Principal
Qualifications/Licensure: Valid State of Minnesota Teaching License in Chinese
Major Job Functions; Specific Tasks/Required Knowledge, Ability and Skills: see attachment
Compensation and Yearly Duration of Employment: Compensation will be determined by District 112 and the Chaska Education Association (CEA).
Interview process to begin 7/27/20
Background check will be conducted.
If you are changing positions or the number of hours you work, your benefits may change. Please make sure to check the eligibility as listed in the above agreement.
If recommended for employment, applicant will provide proof of legal right to work in the United States if required.