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Job Summary
AGM School is a private school located in Santa Ana, CA. With its small class sizes and family/community oriented dynamic, AGM is an ideal place to further your teaching career and potential. AGM is looking for a dynamic teacher to bring our science and social studies curriculum to the next level. Come see what the AGM experience is all about!
- Prepares lesson plans and instructs students in activities designed to promote social, physical and intellectual growth. To help students learn subject matter and/or skills that will contribute to their development as mature, able and responsible citizens.
General Accountabilities
Academic
Providing interactive and meaningful lessons to students, maintaining positive learning environment for active participation of students, assigning homework, and conducting class tests for analyzing their progress
Implementing and delivering quality instruction to students and executing the instructional program by demanding higher order thinking activities from students in a progressive manner
Designing the curriculum that challenges the learning ability of students and ensuring overall development of language
Preparing home assignments and test materials, evaluating the tests' results, and creating innovative methods of teaching as per the students' varying backgrounds, learning style, and grasping power
Providing learning material and language reference books to the students, utilizing available resources in school curriculum to monitor, access, and evaluate students' learning abilities
Administrative
Collaborating with specialist education teachers for creating innovative methods of learning as per the students' abilities and requirements, and identifying the root of behavioral learning problems in students
Optimizing the use of Internet and other interactive technology for strengthening and supporting instructional programs
Establishing and maintaining a healthy relationship with students, parents, and other working staff members, managing the students' behavior in the classroom and the school premises, and implementing appropriate behavior management program
Developing the instructional program pertaining to the current educational trends and updating their knowledge on latest research based educational developments
Maintaining the instructional process and evaluating system of the students as per the state law adopted by the school
Maintaining the students' progress reports, identifying areas of weakness in the student for their overall improvement in studying habits, behavioral issues, and organizational skills
Filing and maintaining all forms of physical and computerized documents, records, and reports of the students for general and academic records
Working in accordance with the latest classroom teaching policies implemented by the state and national legislation, and school regulation
Actively participating in all important departmental and parents' meetings as well as other school related activities
Job Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's Degree
- Multiple Subject Credentials or Master's degree in field of course instruction preferred
- Experience: 2-3 years of elementary or middle school classroom experience.
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Social perceptiveness
- Instructing
- Learning methodologies
- Active listening
- Active learning
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Complex problem solving
Essentials
- Maintaining a professional attitude at all times with students and colleagues
- Giving and grading assignments, homework and tests
- Helping students prepare for testing
- Overseeing students during recess, lunch and other activities
- Talking to parents about their children's progress
- Providing accurate and constructive commentary in report card.
- Meeting and working with other teachers and supervisors to discuss school policies
- Working some evenings and weekends to create lesson plans and grade assignments
- Working on certain weekends for Christmas program, year-end program, and graduation
- Collaborating with department teachers to plan, discuss, and coordinate academic enrichment activities and programs
- Accepting professional constructive feedback from administration and adapting into instruction and communication
- Consistently communicate with parents regarding upcoming class happenings
- Keep accurate daily attendance/tardy records in FACTs
- Post weekly class announcements in FACTs
- Help with subbing if need be
