Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary

AGM School is a private school located in Santa Ana, CA. With its small class sizes and family/community oriented dynamic, AGM is an ideal place to further your teaching career and potential. AGM is looking for a dynamic teacher to bring our science and social studies curriculum to the next level. Come see what the AGM experience is all about!

• Prepares lesson plans and instructs students in activities designed to promote social, physical and intellectual growth. To help students learn subject matter and/or skills that will contribute to their development as mature, able and responsible citizens.

General Accountabilities

Academic

· Providing interactive and meaningful lessons to students, maintaining positive learning environment for active participation of students, assigning homework, and conducting class tests for analyzing their progress

· Implementing and delivering quality instruction to students and executing the instructional program by demanding higher order thinking activities from students in a progressive manner

· Designing the curriculum that challenges the learning ability of students and ensuring overall development of language

· Preparing home assignments and test materials, evaluating the tests' results, and creating innovative methods of teaching as per the students' varying backgrounds, learning style, and grasping power

· Providing learning material and language reference books to the students, utilizing available resources in school curriculum to monitor, access, and evaluate students' learning abilities

Administrative

· Collaborating with specialist education teachers for creating innovative methods of learning as per the students' abilities and requirements, and identifying the root of behavioral learning problems in students

· Optimizing the use of Internet and other interactive technology for strengthening and supporting instructional programs

· Establishing and maintaining a healthy relationship with students, parents, and other working staff members, managing the students' behavior in the classroom and the school premises, and implementing appropriate behavior management program

· Developing the instructional program pertaining to the current educational trends and updating their knowledge on latest research based educational developments

· Maintaining the instructional process and evaluating system of the students as per the state law adopted by the school

· Maintaining the students' progress reports, identifying areas of weakness in the student for their overall improvement in studying habits, behavioral issues, and organizational skills

· Filing and maintaining all forms of physical and computerized documents, records, and reports of the students for general and academic records

· Working in accordance with the latest classroom teaching policies implemented by the state and national legislation, and school regulation

· Actively participating in all important departmental and parents' meetings as well as other school related activities

Job Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Multiple Subject Credentials or Master's degree in field of course instruction preferred
• Experience: 2-3 years of elementary or middle school classroom experience.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Social perceptiveness
• Instructing
• Learning methodologies
• Active listening
• Active learning
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Complex problem solving

Essentials

• Maintaining a professional attitude at all times with students and colleagues
• Giving and grading assignments, homework and tests
• Helping students prepare for testing
• Overseeing students during recess, lunch and other activities
• Talking to parents about their children’s progress
• Providing accurate and constructive commentary in report card.
• Meeting and working with other teachers and supervisors to discuss school policies
• Working some evenings and weekends to create lesson plans and grade assignments
• Working on certain weekends for Christmas program, year-end program, and graduation
• Collaborating with department teachers to plan, discuss, and coordinate academic enrichment activities and programs
• Accepting professional constructive feedback from administration and adapting into instruction and communication
• Consistently communicate with parents regarding upcoming class happenings
• Keep accurate daily attendance/tardy records in FACTs
• Post weekly class announcements in FACTs
• Help with subbing if need be

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