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Position Purpose: Under general supervision, serves as a classroom teacher; engages and supports all students in learning in accordance with the State academic content standards; maintains and creates an effective environment for student learning; organizes subject matter for student learning; plans instruction and designs learning experiences for all students; assesses student learning; and develops as a professional educator. Organization Relationships: This position reports directly to the Instructional Coach and will interact on a regular basis with other administrators, teachers, and external customers. This position works cooperatively with other school staff. Principal Accountabilities/Essential Functions: * Provides learning experiences and teaches pre-reading, reading, language arts, social studies, mathematics, science, health, art, physical education, music, leadership and other general elements of the course of study as specified in State law and in administrative regulations and procedures of the District in accordance with the State content standards. * Develops and uses instructional materials suitable for verbal and/or visual instruction of students with a wide range of mental, physical and emotional maturity. * Provides individual and group instruction designed to meet individual needs and motivate students. * Establishes and maintains standards of classroom management required to achieve effective participation in all activities. * Evaluates academic and social growth of students and keeps appropriate records. * Prepares and provides progress reports; report cards; and other formal and informal assessment data to parents. * Maintains electronic assessment data for access by parent as needed to strengthen communication between the home and the school. * Ensures that continuous formative and summative assessments are conducted to gauge student progress and specific teaching and learning needs * Communicates with parents through a variety of means. * Incorporates the use of technology in the delivery of lessons. * Holds parent conferences to discuss the individual student's progress and interpret the school program. * Identifies student needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude and learning problems. * Creates an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive displays such as bulletin boards, interest centers, etc. * Maintains professional competence through professional development activities provided by the School/District. * Participates cooperatively with the appropriate administrator to develop goals to be used in the performance evaluation process in accordance with District guidelines. * Assists in the selection and requisition of instructional materials and maintains appropriate inventory records. * Supervises students during classroom instructional time and out-of-classroom activities. * Participates in faculties and/or District committees and activities. * Participates in Child Find Teams, Individualized Educational Plan meetings as required to meet the needs of the child. * Participates in instructional preparation time and uses preparation time for the purpose of which it is designed * Provides instruction using various instructional strategies to meet the needs of all learners that ensure student engagement * Chaperones or supervises extracurricular activities and field trips as assigned. * Cooperatively pursues alternative solutions to remediate pupil learning problems, and to enhance expanded academic, social, and emotional growth opportunities * Analyzes student data to accurately evaluate and support student learning * Collaborates and articulates with administrator and teachers to ensure program needs are aligned with school and district achievement goals * Assume other duties and responsibilities as assigned. * Attendance is an essential function of this position. * Performing all other duties as assigned Qualifications: To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. * Knowledge of: the Minnesota content standards; Minnesota Standards for the Teaching Profession; best practices in teaching; differentiated instructional modalities; effective strategies in classroom management;; and other related curriculum objectives. * Ability to: Plan, develop, implement, deliver, teach, and evaluate the curriculum and address program needs; engage in the collaborative and team building processes; establish and maintain collaborative and effective working relationships with others; maintain records and prepare reports; communicate effectively both orally and in writing; read, interpret, apply, and explain rules, regulations, policies and procedures; meet schedules and timelines; work independently with little direction; plan and organize work; exchange information and develop effective lesson plans; read a variety of materials; effectively utilize diversified methods and materials in teaching; learn new methods of teaching through continued staff development; utilize a positive approach to discipline, problem-solving and conflict-resolution; ability to work cooperatively and effectively with other certificated and classified personnel, parents, and community members * Licenses/Certificates/Special Requirements: A valid Minnesota teaching credential authorizing instruction. * Ability to pass a Criminal Background Check. * Current driver&#8217;s license -- Dr. B. Charvez Russell Executive Director Friendship Academy of the Arts 612-879-6703 www.friendshipacademy.org<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.friendshipacademy.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cscsu-edpost%40stcloudstate.edu%7Cdf1a4cc70fcf423fceae08dceec798f1%7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f%7C0%7C0%7C638647788269493396%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=FIHTI%2F2xBMYf1QDEScknqSgobc1ZbyeTG5Y9d%2BYV4f8%3D&reserved=0> Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world. - Nelson Mandela