Teacher Collaborator - Physical Education at KairosPDX

The PE Collaborator encourages all leaders to develop lifelong habits of healthy physical activity. PE Collaborator implements an instructional program that fosters learning and growth, creates a supportive learning environment that enables acquisition of skills and knowledge, and guides leaders toward reaching their academic, social, intellectual and physical potential.

Overall Staff Responsibilities

Share responsibility with a team of colleagues and parents to honor the mission:

• to eliminate the prolific racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident, creative and compassionate leaders;

Practice the values of KairosPDX in professional conduct and daily interactions:

• respect, responsibility, honesty, excellence and service to community

Incorporate the beliefs of KairosPDX in all approaches and instruction

• Every child is uniquely capable, innately curious and inherently creative,
• Character and agency are essential to achievement and are developed through relationship and service to others,
• A multi- cultural context delivers a strong sense of self and is a requirement for participation in our global society,
• Children must be supported in the context of their families;
• Support multicultural practice, instructional and inquiry based approaches that are:
• Actively anti-racist - confronting bias in all of its forms,
• Education for social justice - acknowledging history and studying the present to make informed decisions regarding a more equitable future,
• Pervasive - Examining practices in all levels of school culture and organization,
• Personal -Beginning with the necessary consideration of self as a cultural being,
• Critical Pedagogy - Pursuing multiple perspectives, anticipating contradictions and challenging assumptions,
• Empowering - Providing children the ego strength to challenge racist societal views,
• Helping children think deeply about themselves and others.
  
  

Core Position Responsibilities

• Create a learning environment designed to build skill, confidence and a positive cultural and academic identity
• Research, implement and align curriculum, instructional strategies, and student assessment to the Common Core
• Develop and track standards, growth and learning goals for each student including use of baseline and progression data, identifying strategies, measures and evidence of progress standards
• Responsible for planning for and orchestrating academic, social, emotional and cultural identity growth outcomes
• Collaborate with Science Collaborator and instructional staff to schedule lessons serving all KairosPDX students
• Collaborate with Science Collaborator to design and implement specific lessons for Community Action Sessions CAS
• Stay current with new content and information in a rapidly changing environment
• Hold student outcomes, aspirations, and involvement at the center of plans aimed to increase student growth and achievement
• Teach and manage a classroom with approximately 20-40 students
• Discipline students in a fair and consistent manner, using clear routines and expectations as well as school approved behavior support techniques
• Interpret, plan and work toward the goals of the learning community
• Plan and prepare the environment for the academic and non-academic needs of students
• Assess for progress in the academic, social, emotional and cultural domains of student development;
• Align curriculum, instructional strategies, and student assessment to the Common Core
• Document and maintain educational records for each student in the classroom
• Utilize data to inform instruction
• Work with a team of colleagues and families to provide a nurturing and positive climate that encourages student responsibility and intrinsic motivation
• Plans lessons based on grade-level standards that are meaningful and differentiated to meet student needs, that are relevantly linked beyond the task-at-hand, and that help all students learn and apply transferable knowledge and skills.
• Communicates with care, respect, proactivity and professionalism to students, parents, colleagues, and all school personnel. Communicates, both verbally and in writing, in a manner that builds and enhances powerful relationships with students, their families, and members of the school community
• Plans lessons that are intentionally linked to other lessons (previous and future) in support of students meeting standards.
• Provides students with measurable learning targets with clear criteria for success.
• Assigns students understandable and relevant performance tasks to provide concrete evidence of student learning.
• Develops teaching points based on students' learning needs (academic background, life experiences, culture, and language) in relation to the learning target(s)
• Enables students to take ownership of their own learning such that they build the capacity to develop, test, and refine their thinking.
• Engage students with strategies, capitalizing and building upon students' academic background, life experiences, culture and language, and which support rigorous and culturally relevant learning.
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

• Attend several KairosPDX staff and family events
• Participate in professional development to facilitate the growth of each student, staff member and the organization overall
• Participate in continuous improvement practices including observations, reflections and collaborations
• Participate in all staff, department and team meetings and seminars
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change with or without notice
• Perform other related duties as needed and assigned.
• Valid TSPC license
• Documentation of “Highly Qualified Teacher Status” under the No Child Left Behind Act
• Bachelor’s Degree; Master’s, preferred
• Demonstrated ability to manage a classroom
• At least one or two years of experience teaching in an elementary classroom; three to five years of experience preferred
• At least one or two years relevant experience working with children from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds
• Training in early education and/or human development, preferred
• Experience working with children ages 5 to 11, preferred
• Training and/or experience with at least one special population such as special needs children, Talented and Gifted children, and/or English Language Learners, preferred
• Effective interpersonal skills in managing and interacting with diverse groups of stakeholders
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage conflict through equitable decision-making and effective problem solving
• Willingness to learn about and adapt to KairosPDX culture
• Open to learning and practicing a constructivist approach to teaching and learning
• Commitment to culturally relevant practices
• Commitment to professional reflection and ongoing collaboration
• Share KairosPDX’s stance that excellent public education is a civil right of all children and families
• Possess a passion for helping each child reach his or her social, emotional and academic potential including a commitment to differentiated instruction and ongoing assessment
• Current Food Handlers Card and CPR First Aid Certificate required (cost paid by applicant)
• Ability to pass a criminal background check