Avis de recrutement : IRC recrute un(e) Enseignant référent pour la culture de la classe basé aux Etats-Unis.
Job Overview/Summary:
The Newcomer Youth Summer Academy (NYSA) is a six-week program that prepares newly arrived refugee youth to succeed at their grade level in the New York City public school system. Up to 130 students aged 5 – 21 from over 20 countries will participate in academic, creative arts, physical education, and social-emotional learning classes. Field trips are held on Fridays.
Classroom Culture Lead Teachers play an important role, leading classroom culture, rituals, and routines. Classroom Culture Lead Teachers work with a single class level throughout the program (K-12), providing support and continuity for their class throughout the program. Classroom Culture Lead Teachers are responsible for planning and leading daily mindfulness, facilitating small-group instruction as per the Academic Lead Teacher’s plans, working with students one-on-one, and providing additional sheltered instruction support for multilingual learning.
Classroom Culture Lead Teachers are directly responsible for behavior management in alignment with Academy philosophy and classroom guidelines. They are primarily responsible for leading their classroom Peer Mentors, and they play a critical role in ensuring consistent, timely communication among Academic Lead Teachers, Peer Mentors, Administration, and students’ families.
Classroom Culture Lead Teachers are responsible for observing, assessing, recording, and monitoring students’ individual progress. This requires an understanding of the IRC School Readiness indicators, gathering input from other staff to assess individual students’ school readiness assets and needs.
Hours:
- Training: July 5th, 6th, 7th,2023: Up to 24 hours of training, 9:00AM – 5:00PM
- Foundational online training modules to be completed independently ahead of synchronous staff training dates
- Main Program: July 10th – August 11th, 2023: 7.5 hours per day (8:00am to 4:00pm) plus 1 evening of parent/teacher conferences. Expect 2-3 hours per week of additional external planning, grading, and assessment analysis.
Major Responsibilities:
- Participate in mandatory school programing.
- Contribute to collaborative planning sessions for all staff training and program meetings.
- Plan and lead (30 minutes x2 – x3, daily) whole-group mindfulness lessons
- Lead weekly family-communication plan for all students in assigned class
- Collaborate with IRC Staff and the Academic Lead Teacher in the implementation of a 6-week curriculum
- Complete on pre- and post-School Readiness observational assessments for each student in assigned class
- Collaborate with Academic Lead Teacher(s) in planning, coordinating classroom activities, and reviewing student progress
- Lead classroom climate and culture in accordance with Academy philosophy and protocols
- Manage dismissal protocols
- Supervise students in cafeteria during breakfast
- Engage in instructional coaching cycles and participate in weekly Classroom Culture Lead Teacher meetings
- Complete weekly progress reports and all required reporting on time
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Education or related field required; candidate for Master’s degree preferred
- 2+ years of classroom teaching experience, required
- Experience teaching English Language Learners/multilingual learners is required
- Familiarity teaching in New York City public schools is highly desirable
- Certification/experience with Responsive Classrooms or Classroom Mindfulness, highly desirable
- Strong classroom management skills
- Proficiency teaching social emotional learning
- Experience working with refugee and/or immigrant populations, highly desirable
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Highly organized, dependable, responsive, and collaborative work style
- Second language proficiency in relevant language highly desirable (Spanish, French, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Arabic, Mandingo, Bambara, Wolof, Fulani, Tibetan, Russian, Urdu, Bengali, Haitian Creole, Burmese and Nepali)
- Strength in cultural competency-building.
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Closing date : June 06th, 2023