2026-2027 3rd/4th Grade Science Teacher

Title: Teacher Purpose of Position: To provide an engaging, enriching and high quality educational experience for students Employment Status: Full-time Reporting Reports to: Principal Location: Assigned campus Essential Functions: Demonstrate Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy - Create lesson and unit plans that support instructional outcomes and reflect important concepts in the discipline - Create lesson and unit plans that accommodate prerequisite relationships among concepts and skills - Provide clear and accurate classroom explanations - Provide accurate answers to students’ questions - Provide feedback to students that furthers learning - Work with colleagues to assure interdisciplinary connections are planned and practiced - Ensure educational outcomes are of a challenging cognitive level, central to the discipline, allow student choice, use varied resources, allow for thoughtfully planned learning groups and interdisciplinary in nature - Ensure alignment of outcomes, activities and skills - Ensure assessments adequately measure student mastery of presented content - Plan and implement instructional outcomes which allow differentiation for students of varied abilities - Implementation of French and Louisiana State Standards lesson planning and common assessment as applicable - Collaborative work with teachers and staff, participation in PLCs (and “conseils de cycle” as applicable) - Respond promptly to telephone and email inquiries from families, teachers and administrators. - Perform other duties as assigned. - Comply with expectations in the French accredited program (as applicable) - Comply with accommodations for students with exceptionalities - Comply with all requirements of the LDOE teacher evaluation system. Create an Environment of Respect and Rapport - Encourage and model respectful talk, active listening and turn taking - Acknowledge students’ backgrounds and lives outside of the classroom - Exhibit body language indicative of warmth and caring to students - Encourage and model politeness and support for all community members - Encourage and model fairness in all interactions Establish a Culture for Learning - Encourage high expectations, supported through both verbal and nonverbal behaviors, for both learning and participation - Encourage and recognize effort and persistence on the parts of students - Create a culture that promotes high expectations for expression and work products - Establish smooth functioning classroom routines with little or no loss of instructional time - Create classroom routines where students play an important role in carrying them out Utilize Effective Instructional Strategies - Create learning tasks and pose questions of high cognitive challenge which have been formulated by both students and the teacher - Create and pose questions with multiple correct answers or approaches, even when there is a single correct response - Plan, prepare, and deliver effectively paced lessons that are aligned with state standards and school curriculum. - Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners, including students with IEPs or 504 plans. - Utilize formative and summative assessments to monitor and improve student performance. - Effectively utilize student responses and ideas - Facilitate and encourage high levels of student participation in student led discussion - Encourage and support student enthusiasm, interest, thinking, problem solving, etc. - Create an environment where students are actively “working” rather than watching while their teacher “works” - Gathers and uses evidence of student understanding to information instruction and remediation - Assists students in assessing their own work against established criteria Display Professionalism and Commitment to the Audubon Community - Reflect and refine instruction based on feedback from others and self-reflection - Create systems and routines that track student metrics to improve both academic and socio-emotional outcomes…