Co teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Co teacher in details. A complete job description concludes Co teacher key duties/responsibilities, Co teacher job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of Co teacher duties:

1. Plan units of study and lessons by following the Harlem Link curriculum framework
2. Write and implement learning objectives that are challenging and measurable, and are based on Common Core standards as well as student assessment data
3. Teach reading and writing through balanced literacy and a workshop model (mentors to our approach include Fountas and Pinnell, Patricia Cunningham, Lucy Calkins)
4. Teach math through a workshop model using TERC Investigations as touchstone for major concepts and additional learning activities that allow students to meet skill and conceptual thinking expectations
5. Teach social studies based on school expectations and scope and sequence, integrating units into reading and writing time to the maximum extent possible
6. Model and instill a love of learning
7. Work with co-teacher to implement modifications and accommodations for students with IEPs
8. Monitor IEP goals for students
9. Possess a strong philosophical belief that all children belong and stop at nothing to ensure a successful integrated education
10. Administer tri-annual assessments to inform instruction, including DRA and MAP
11. Administer and review end of unit tests in reading, writing and math to track student achievement of standards
12. Create and administer standards-based interim assessments including but not limited to: observation recording tools, checklists and inventories, rubrics, quizzes
13. Analyze student work and assessments to inform instruction and create and execute Data Action Plans that yield significant student process several times per year
14. Group students dynamically based on academic needs as informed by assessment data
15. Write detailed report cards tri-annually to communicate student progress to families
16. Demonstrate an ongoing commitment to data-based accountability
17. Use classroom and behavioral management strategies that are structured, consistent, respectful and responsive to student needs
18. Ensure a safe physical and emotional environment for students through positive framing, kind communication with students and adults, predictability and consistent routines
19. Take responsibility for order and productivity by refusing to tolerate classroom disruptions, creating individual behavior plans when needed
20. Build a safe, orderly, and positive classroom community including all students
21. Communicate and plan with your co-teacher on a regular, ongoing basis (before school, during school hours, with the children, after school)
22. Utilize a common approach to behavior management, time management, classroom organization and appearance, planning, teaching, and monitoring learning
23. Remain open and honest with co-teacher, speaking out when issues arise
24. See the classroom as a shared space
25. Split up responsibilities and roles as much as possible
26. Attend staff meetings and development sessions
27. Incorporate personal professional needs and administrative feedback in developing and maintaining a Professional Growth Plan
28. Participate actively in the school’s established professional development structures
29. Discuss curriculum and planning in weekly grade team meetings
30. Meet with AIS teachers and social workers as necessary
31. Meet and work with the instructional coaches based on individual or classroom needs
32. Meet (individually or with co-teacher) with the principal and assistant principal to monitor student progress, co-teaching, and professional goals
33. Build a rapport with families
34. Communicate with families through a daily double-entry log/progress report, phone calls and meetings as necessary
35. Attend and participate in at least two parent association meetings during the year
36. With other staff, coordinate at least one special event to encourage family involvement and dialogue about students
37. Meet with families three times a year (report card conferences)
38. Involve families through classroom student work celebrations and volunteer opportunities

II. List of Co teacher qualifications

1. A master’s degree (or higher) in education and
2. Appropriate New York State teaching certification (or reciprocal certification from another state).
3. Highly-skilled collaborators who prefer the challenge and fun of teamwork
4. Creative thinkers who take a solutions oriented approach to classroom and school challenges and
5. Hard-working professionals dedicated to doing whatever it takes to close the achievement gap.
6. Two or more years’ teaching experience
7. A graduate degree in literacy and
8. Clear evidence on cover letter and/or resume of high student achievement in the context of an orderly, positive and inclusive classroom community.

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.