High School Math Teacher

GALS Overview:

GALS is an allgirls (inclusive) public charter school serving 350 students in 6th12th grades. GALS empowers students to succeed academically lead confidently live boldly and thrive physically. GALS provides an innovative and necessary educational option that incorporates health and wellness education to optimize academic achievement focusing on identity development. The school follows standardsbased practices and classes incorporate an inquirybased approach to learning and integration of movement in academic programming.

About the Position:

Teaching staff are exempt professionals and ESSA qualified teachers who specialize in contentbased instruction. This includes overall planning coordination and delivery of a highly rigorous curriculum and using inclusive practices in the classroom. It also includes delivering long term plans creating daily lesson plans aligned to GALS instructional expectations and prepping for all curricular materials. The teacher will also be responsible for maintaining and managing their classrooms and supporting students and peers in multiple ways including providing a safe environment conducive to learning using exemplary classroom management practices and building healthy relationships with students. Being a part of the GALS Team also includes movement based learning leveraging internal and external relations collaborating with teammates to operationalize the philosophy of GALS and showing a flexible and growthoriented mindset.

This position reports to the Head of Middle School and/or Head of High School.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Cultivate a hunger for knowledge among students and engage them to learn
  
• Encourage student curiosity and push for continued improvement
  
• Help set rigorous goals for students and work to attain them
  
• Keep an organized and orderly classroom that promotes safety creativity and learning
  
• Plan and use curriculum for the school year aligned to standards and GALS designed scope & sequence
  
• Differentiate for individual student needs including all exceptional students (GT MLL IEP 504)
  
• Collaborate with grade level peers content peers and coteachers as needed
  
• Create and prepare daily lesson plans for appropriate ages and learning skill levels
  
• Create and/or print out instructional material for classroom use
  
• Lead daily lesson plans teaching the intended subject matter at grade level
  
• Use deliberate questioning to push student thinking and answer questions as appropriate to guide student learning
  
• Accurately track attendance and ensure students are attending and participating in class
  
• Assign work using inclass worksheets projects homework presentations reports etc.
  
• Assess performance by grading work at regular intervals (defined by GALS instructional expectations) and giving assessments/projects/measures of content mastery
  
• Keep an updated grade book online and submit by all written deadlines
  
• Help students oneonone who need extra assistance
  
• Enforce administration and schoolwide policies including behavior structures and classroom management
  
• Set consistent classroom rules and expectations
  
• Actively participate in the school community including attending community meetings movement and other schoolwide events
  
• Participate in teaching training sessions during professional development and stay up to date with current teaching methods and practices
  
• Report to school board committees as needed/requested
  
• Support with enrollment and recruitment events as needed/requested
  
• Set up and lead teacher/parent studentassessment conferences and maintain consistent communication with student families
  
• Coach movement in the morning serve as a wellness squad leader and/or teach courses as needed in the GALS schedule
  
• Attend to and complete all other duties as assigned