American Youth Academy is an Islamic-based private school located in Tampa, Florida, one of the fastest-growing communities in the entire country. 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.
If you enjoy positively influencing the lives of children while pursuing a gratifying career, this is the job for you.
Qualifications Required:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in education or a related field
- Expertise in the field of Algebra and Statistics
- Experience teaching in a classroom environment
- Ability to communicate effectively with all staff and colleagues
- Flexibility and high adaptation skills to work successfully in an unpredictable school setting
- Organization and communication skills
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.
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.
Ability To:
- Weigh options and think clearly.
- Ability to multitask.
- Organize effectively through adequate planning
- Communicate clearly and concisely in the English language orally and in writing.
- Develop 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 controlled 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 frequent basis on a given day. The chalkboard or whiteboard is occasionally too frequently used, requiring grasping the chalk, marker, or eraser, reaching below or above shoulder height with the dominant upper extremity. It may need 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, and dust, and the noise level is moderate to loud.
Salary:
Salary will be based on education and experience.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $48,500.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- IB Certification?
- Teaching Certificate?
Education:
Experience:
Work Location: In person
