American Youth Academy is an Islamic-based private school located in Tampa, Florida, one of the fastest-growing communities in the entire country. AYA was established in 2004 and currently serves students grades pre-K through 12, increasing every year. One of AYA's top priorities is to create an environment and structure that allows all students to engage in experiences that prepare them for the future. As enrollment continues to grow, we are looking for additional staff and administrators to join our team to help us with our next step into the future.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and deliver inquiry-based MYP Design lessons.
- Guide students through the design thinking process, from research to prototyping and evaluation.
- Integrate technology, engineering, and hands-on projects into the curriculum.
- Assess student work based on MYP assessment criteria and provide meaningful feedback.
- Encourage interdisciplinary collaboration with other MYP subjects.
- Foster a growth mindset and innovation within the classroom.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Possess any required state teaching credential or certifications and meet any other credentialing requirements.
- Ability to pass a criminal background investigation.
- Experience with MYP Design curriculum and project-based learning preferred.
- Strong knowledge of digital tools, coding, and/or hands-on design projects.
- Ability to engage students in real-world problem-solving.
- Excellent communication and classroom management skills.
- Teaching experience in a public or private school.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as may be required
Reports to: Middle School Principal
Job Goal:
The teacher is responsible for providing an instructional program and the education of assigned students and will create a flexible program and class environment favorable for the learning and personal growth of each student. To establish a positive correlation between the quality of teaching and learning by making instructional decisions based upon student data in a safe, productive, and Islamic learning environment.
Teachers will be evaluated in the following areas as part of their annual evaluation:
- Attendance 10%
- Professional Responsibilities 10%
- Professional Development Goals 10%
- Planning and Preparation 20%
- Lesson Structure 15%
- Classroom Environment and PBIS 15%
- Quality of Instruction 20%
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Maintain and enrich their expertise in the subject area they will teach.
- Develop lesson plans that ensure state and school learning standards and the additional specific grade-by-grade learning standards set forth by the school programs.
- Coordinate lesson plans with other teachers to maximize possibilities for teaching similar topics in the same general time frame, thus reinforcing student knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis.
- Provide direct and indirect instruction.
- Long and short-term planning addressing individual needs of students.
- Prepare students adequately for all required assessments.
- Evaluate student's progress
- Provide an inviting, exciting, innovative learning environment.
- Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management
- Basic understanding of children's emotional, physical, intellectual, and social needs.
- Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff.
- Utilize computers and other technological classroom support equipment in student instruction.
- Perform other duties as assigned and deemed appropriate by the Head of School.
Classroom Strategies and Behaviors:
- Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of students.
- Provides clear learning goals with an identified objective and provides rubrics for tracking student progress.
- Establishes classroom rules and procedures through the practice of routines.
- Recognizes adherence to rules and procedures with positive recognition and thorough follow-up with consequences.
- Maintains positive rapport with students; demonstrates patience and appropriate nurturing to assist in the growth of the child.
- Establishes and maintains effective relationships with students by displaying objectivity and using verbal and nonverbal behaviors to demonstrate interest.
- Engages students by maintaining a lively pace, through physical movement, and by demonstrating enthusiasm.
- Makes the physical environment as safe and conducive to learning as possible.
Teaching for Student Learning:
- The lesson is structured to meet the school guidelines for maximizing student learning and is completed in the time allotted.
- The content is delivered comprehensively and cohesively where all students are demonstrating understanding.
- Helps students interact with new information by identifying critical information, chunking and elaborating on new information, and recording knowledge.
- Helps students practice and deepen new knowledge by using and practicing learning skills and strategies.
Planning and Preparing:
- Effectively plans and prepares for lessons and units by scaffolding information into the lessons.
- Creates or selects evaluation strategies that are appropriate for the students and aligned with the lesson's goals.
- Plans and prepares for the use of available resources and technology, including traditional resources and newer tools.
- Plans and prepares for the needs of students who lack support from home, in the English language and Arabic language.
Performance Responsibilities: Non-Teaching Tasks:
- Collegiality and Professionalism
- Promotes positive interactions with colleagues.
- Promotes positive interactions with students.
- Promotes positive interactions with parents.
- Seeks mentorship for the areas of need or interest.
- Shares ideas and strategies with other teachers
- School and Individual Advancement
- Uses resources effectively
- Adheres to school rules, policies, and values.
- Attends to assigned duties diligently.
- Actively sponsors engage in and promote school committees.
- Actively sponsors engage in and promote student clubs.
- Participates in and supports school initiatives.
- Participates in professional development opportunities.
- Implements information, tools, and resources from professional development sessions.
Record Keeping:
- Maintains RenWeb per school guidelines.
- Maintains students' grades in an organized manner.
- Updates student records and grades promptly.
- Maintains school resources and textbooks in good condition.
- Submits lesson plans promptly.
- Submits all requested documents promptly.
- Students are challenged at their ability level as they are guided through the higher-order thinking continuum.
- Communicates high expectations for ALL students by asking probing yet guided questions for all students, particularly the low expectancy students.
Ability To:
- Weigh options and think clearly.
- Ability to multi-task.
- Organize effectively through adequate planning
- Communicate clearly and concisely in the English language, both orally and in writing.
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships with administration, students, staff, and the school community to promote a collaborative professional environment.
- Relate well with children, deal with student problems, and maintain effective classroom discipline.
- Handle classroom situations with fairness and patience.
- Engage students through diversified learning activities
- Personalize learning to engage all learners
- Maintain a learning environment that is safe and student-friendly
- Willingness to openly communicate with administration, students, staff, and the school community.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate tests and measurements of achievement.
- Demonstrated willingness to be held accountable for student results.
Physical Demand:
Teachers spend most of the day standing and sitting in the classroom. While standing, the teacher will frequently hold light objects they are working on and demonstrating, etc. These can be held from waist level to slightly above the teacher's head. Teachers must be able to walk through the classroom and maneuver in tight spaces between desks. Dealing with students can entail kneeling or squatting, stooping, and bending from 50-70 degrees at the waist on an occasional to the frequent basis on a given day. The chalkboard or whiteboard is occasionally too frequently used, requiring grasping the chalk or marker or eraser, reaching, below, or above shoulder height with the dominant upper extremity, and may require trunk or neck rotation to look back at class.
The teacher often moves students' desks and chairs to change the classroom layout to influence teaching situations. It is occasionally necessary to lift and carry boxes weighing up to 25 pounds from the office to the classroom up to 200 feet away.
Environmental Demands:
This position works in various settings, including classrooms and outdoors, and may experience heat or cold extremes and fumes, odors, dust, and the noise level is moderate to loud.
Disclaimer:
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the employee's general nature and level of work (s) within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this position.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $47,500.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Education:
Experience:
- Teaching: 1 year (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Tampa, FL 33617 (Required)
Work Location: In person
