Middle School Teacher

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Student learning 
• Plan, design and develop experiences and activities that promote the academic, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development of all the students. 
• Create a safe and caring environment for students that fosters learning. 
• Actively research and enrich facilitation/teaching skills through contemporary educational practices. 
• Use varying instructional and pedagogical practices to meet different learning needs.
• Effectively use mediums of art, drama, stories, games, etc. to engage students in learning following the framework provided in the curriculum. 
• Establish effective classroom procedures (transitions) and help create an SEL-aligned environment in the classroom/school. 
• Clearly articulating learning expectations for students. 
• Assessment 
• Thoughtfully design and implement  inclusive and differentiated facilitation of formative, summative assessments of Student's development cognitively, socially, emotionally, and physically.
• Continually monitor and evaluate Student's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health. 
• Analyzing students' learning growth and strategizing differentiated support for learning and development of the students.
• Caregiver engagement 
• Participate in caregiver meetings with the social worker. 
• Plan and facilitate all caregiver-teacher conferences throughout the year to share the progress of the child’s learning and development. 
• Visit homes of students towards building relationships and understanding the context of students and families. 
• Documentation and reporting 
• Document all classroom activities by regularly recording attendance, photographs, session proceedings, etc in formats/software provided. 
• Create reports on the progress of students you work with. 
• Professional and administrative responsibilities 
• Track and record all inventory with assistance from the helper and admin team at Apni Shala. 
• Ensure that space and resources in the class are used and maintained effectively.
• Invite and engage volunteers assigned to the class. 
• Build meaningful relationships with various stakeholders for advancing organisational vision. 
• Co-plan and execute school-based events with the Khoj/Apni Shala team. 
• Attend all meetings with the school team and organizational level meetings.
• Support and participate in continuations of students’ learning by substituting in across the school as per the need. 
• Planning and making teaching resources as per the plans and the need of the learning experiences for the students. 
• Self and Peer/Team Development 
• Work towards personal and professional development (PD) goals of self and peers by actively participating in organizational PDs and other relevant workshops/courses or reading and researching on relevant themes, co-planning and collective work. 
• Facilitate supervision meetings with teaching interns aimed at building a practice of reflection, personal and professional development.
• Participate in supervision meetings facilitated by your supervisor aimed at building a practice of reflection, personal and professional development. 
• Participate in  review processes for the team and self. 
• Participate in practice-based resources (articles, videos, podcasts, etc) that are produced by the Apni Shala team.
• Organizational development 
•  Participate in resource mobilisation, fundraising, advocacy, communications, culture building and other related activities as guided by the organisation. 
• Partnership and Relationship Development with Government Stakeholders 
• Build healthy relationships with government staff in the school. 
• Work with the team to ensure government regulations and compliance requirements are met in a timely manner.