Status: Full-time position
Location: Washington, DC
Deadline Date:
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Job Summary: We are looking for highly motivated and skilled talent to join our team at the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). We seek individuals who are passionate about transforming and improving educational outcomes for our students.
Ind DCPS, 4,000 teachers serve the needs of 46,000 students across 110 schools. Ten schools currently offer dual language immersion classrooms. DCPS has immersion classrooms from Preschool to Eighth Grade. As part of a comprehensive reform effort to become the best urban school system in America, DCPS intends to have the highest-performing, best paid, most satisfied, and most honored educator force in the nation whose work drives significant achievement gains for DCPS students.
Qualifications: Fluency in Spanish and English
Bachelor's degree
Possesses or is eligible for a valid District of Columbia Teaching License.
Successful completion of Praxis I and II exams (unless holding a standard teaching license)
Meets Highly Qualified status as defined by the NCLB mandates
Strong instructional skills and classroom management.
Ability to self-reflect on teaching practices and be responsive to feedback
Personal Qualities of Top Candidtes
Commitment to Equity. Passionate about closing the achievement gap and ensuring that every child, regardless of background or circumstance, receives an excellent education.
Leadership. Coaches, mentors, and challenges others to excel despite obstacles and challenging sitautions.
Focus on Data-Driven Results. Relentlessly pursues the mastery of instruction based on student performance, and is driven by a desire to produce quantifiable student achievement gains.
Innovative Problem-Solving. Approaches work with a sense of possibility and sees challenges as opportunities for creative problem solving, takes initiative to explore issues and find potential innovative solutions.
Adaptability. Excels in constantly changing environments and adapts flexibly in shifting projects or priorities to meet the needs of a dynamic transformation effort; comfortable with ambiguity and non-routine situations.
Teamsork. Increases the effectiveness of surrounding teams through collaboration, constant learning and supporting others; sensitive to diversity in all its forms; respects and is committed to learning from others.
Duties: Develop and implement curricula to meet academic standards in Spanish and English, when necessary.
Thoughtfully plan daily lessons and implement specific strategies to meet the needs of all students, providing extra support, enrichment, or variation of work when necessary.
Be accountable for students' academic growth and increase each individual students' achievement.
Design and implement assessments that measure progress towards academic standards and diagnose areas of student misunderstanding.
Use assessment data to refine curriculum and inform instructional practices.
Create a positive, achievement-oriented learning environment.
Reflect on successes and areas of growth as a teacher, seek to improve performance, and respond to feedback.
Participate in collaborative curriculum development, grade-level activities, and school-wide function.
Innvest parents of families in their children's academic success through regular communication.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Criminal Background check will be required.
If you have any questions, please email us at dcpscareers@dc.gov, or call us at (202) 299-2145.
Equal Opportunity Employer
To Apply:
To apply, visit our website at www.joindcpublicschools.com, and complete our online application.