Position Purpose: The Lower School Design Technology Teacher designs and implements a vertically aligned, inquiry-driven Design Technology program for Grades 3–5. This role emphasizes design thinking, computational thinking, and digital citizenship through authentic problem-solving experiences aligned with International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards and the IB PYP framework. The teacher serves as a collaborative partner and instructional leader, supporting students and faculty in leveraging technology and making as tools for learning, innovation, and impact in alignment with the mission, goals, and objectives of the school.
Essential Functions:
- Actively support and advance the vision and mission of Carrollwood Day School
- Design and implement an ISTE-aligned 3rd–5th Grade Design Technology curriculum featuring clear learning progressions in computational thinking, creative communication, and digital citizenship.
- Teach and inspire Lower School students to become inquisitive learners, innovative entrepreneurs, and critical thinkers through hands-on design challenges.
- Explicitly teach and assess the design cycle (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, iterate) and support students in documenting their learning process
- Provide cognitively challenging and developmentally appropriate coding, engineering, data and tech literacy, robotics, and design thinking instruction and projects to students from 3rd through 5th Grades
- Manage the requisition, acquisition, organization, utilization, maintenance, and inventory of all LS Design Technology resources
- Develop grade-band-specific learning progressions in coding, engineering, robotics, and digital design that intentionally build skills from Grades 3–5
- Establish and maintain student behavior standards needed to achieve a positive classroom environment; demonstrate strong classroom management skills to maintain a respectful learning environment that ensures high levels of learning for all students
- Support student growth, academically and social-emotionally
- Provide a culturally and physically safe and open environment for learning, building, and experimenting through a variety of materials, tools, and techniques for making
- Model and promote the value of failure as a learning experience
- Collaborate with other Design Technology team members within the Lower School, with particular attention to alignment with MYP and across other divisions to implement an engaging, innovative, and linear curriculum that builds over time
- Serve as a thought partner and instructional coach to faculty embedding design thinking and technology-rich learning experiences
- Provide for unstructured opportunities to code, make, and create passion projects
- Collaborate with the Director of Entrepreneurship and others to provide professional development and assistance to faculty to embed and incorporate design thinking into all aspects of the LS curriculum
- Communicate with the MarCom team to champion and promote projects within Design Tech
- Communicate with faculty/staff/parents regarding Design Tech activities
- Commit to keeping current in professional learning practices, information technology, and educational research related to programs and design technology for Elementary students
- Become knowledgeable in the IB PYP program and become a valued collaborative resource to the teachers and students during their Units of Inquiry
- Be a team player; cheerfully participate in and/or assist with pick-up and drop-off, lunch duty, assemblies, field trips, Back to School Night, and other duties and routines regularly part of a PK-12 independent school environment
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance requirements, including attending division and other school meetings, professional days, graduation, and other required events
- Adhere to School policies as described in the Employee Handbook and other materials
- Be a role model of integrity and professionalism
Pay: $45,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
