Kindergarten Math Teacher 2024-2025
Location
Greenwood Village, CO | United States
Job description
About Aspen Academy:
Located in the southern metro area of beautiful Denver, Colorado , at Aspen Academy, we're not just a school; we're a community committed to shaping the leaders of tomorrow. Our dedication to Next Generation education sets us apart, as we equip students with the enduring life skills they need for future success. We look at learning as a way to ignite the personal passions and interests of each and every student. Our unique leadership, finance, and entrepreneurial development (LiFE) program prepares students for life. Students thrive as they build lasting relationships with peers and teachers through small class sizes and a community focus.
Diversity and inclusion are foundational at Aspen Academy . We are passionate about cultivating a diverse and inclusive working and learning environment, celebrating and supporting differences.
We embody and promote the community's values in our thoughts, words, and actions, serving as committed and supportive co-leaders in realizing Aspen Academy's vision and mission:
- Our values : Be Kind. Do Good. Work Hard. Make the World Better.
- Our mission: We edify and inspire students and educators to grow, learn and lead.
- Our vision: We are a national leader in innovative and transformative education.
Does this inspire you? Then please read on.
- You cultivate students’ curiosity, engagement, growth and performance in academic, intellectual, social and emotional domains.
- You set empathetic limits with students, encourage natural consequences, and foster responsible decision-making in a supportive environment.
- You are a competent, compassionate, creative, dedicated and enthusiastic professional. You are committed to your own growth and improvement.
- You possess strong instr uctional pedagogy, in addition to curiosity and expertise in the content to be taught.
- You are an excellent communicator, both written and verbal.
- You consistently exhibit strengths in time management and organization, as well as social and emotional intelligence and cultural competency.
If this describes you, please apply to join our team.
Our Teachers’ Responsibilities:
- Classroom Strategies and Behaviors: Communicating learning goals and feedback, establishing rules and procedures; helping students interact, practice and deepen new knowledge, and generate and test hypotheses; engaging students; recognizing adherence to norms and procedures; establishing and maintaining effective relationships with students; communicating high expectations for all students. Creating and maintaining a classroom environment aligned with “Love and Logic” Principles.
- Serving as Leadership, Finance, Entrepreneurship (LiFE) Coach: Executing engaging lessons daily, evaluating lesson efficacy, integrating LiFE themes into the core curriculum, and leading impactful programs to develop strong Leadership, Finance, and Entrepreneurship skills in students. Ensuring effective scaffolding of learning, practice, and mastery of these skills in themselves and their students.
- Planning and Preparing: Planning and preparing for lessons and units, resources and technology, needs of neurodiverse learners and differentiated learning styles, implementation of culturally responsive classrooms.
- Developing and Maintaining Strong, Positive and Productive Partnerships: Communicating proactively, positively and consistently with students, parents, teammates, and our community, fostering a collaborative and supportive community.
- Reflecting on Teaching: Evaluating personal performance as well as developing and implementing a professional growth plan.
- Collegiality and Professionalism: Champion a positive environment; promoting an exchange of ideas and strategies;promoting our school and its community’s development.
Aspen Academy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace committed to providing an environment of mutual respect, where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and military and veteran status.
Qualifications:
- Required: Bachelor’s degree. Master's degree preferred.
- Preferred: Teaching certification. Singapore Math.
- 3-5 years classroom experience.
- Evidence of content mastery.
- A passion for Next Generation learning.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
- A commitment to igniting curiosity, and making learning fun and challenging.
- Proficient use of computer software, Google and learning management systems (Blackbaud preferred).
- Grant permission for a criminal background check upon hire.
- Meet physical demands to perform essential functions of the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions: Ability to work full-time, including occasional evenings and weekends; work in person/in the school building; speak for long periods of time. Regularly required to stand; walk; use hands; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, or crouch. Frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; occasionally life up to 50 pounds.
About Aspen Academy
Aspen Academy – Be Kind. Do Good. Make the world a better place. This is the only rule at our national model school and the focus of the work that we do every day. We prepare students to enter, succeed in, and graduate from outstanding high schools. We are committed to providing an intentionally diverse student body with an outstanding liberal arts education within the framework of an individualized education; character, leadership and entrepreneurial development; and service learning. Students thrive as they build lasting relationships with peers and teachers through small class sizes and a community focus. Justice, equity, diversity and inclusion are core to Aspen Academy. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for all students, staff, and faculty. We believe every member on our team enriches our community by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions. If this inspires you, please apply to join our team.
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