Khoj Community School
Website:
apnishala.org
Job details:
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Deep commitment to work towards wellbeing and SEL of students and other stakeholders
- Ability to adapt and respond to difficult and uncertain circumstances
- Spirit of collaboration and trust in working with and supporting a team
- Inclination and openness to continuous learning, feedback and growth
- Ability to engage with and solve for inequity and exclusion with compassion
- Commitment to one’s own social emotional development and healing
- Ability and willingness to step in for responsibilities above and beyond the assigned role
- Interest in working with government / low-income schools
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.
- Design grade appropriate projects and exposure for students.
- Plan experiences focusing on Integrated learning approach.
- 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 students' 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.
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- B. Ed. (with SST focus) and Masters / Bachelors in History/Geography.
- 2 years of teaching experience in a school setting.
- Well developed oral and written communication in English
- Fluent conversational skills in Hindi and/or Marathi
- Practice or experience with diverse modalities such as art, movement, project-based learning, etc.
- Ability to build and nurture relationships with young learners of 8 to 14 years of age
- Fluency in using Microsoft office, Google Apps (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides)
- Flexibility and ability to change as per contextual needs
- Ability to plan and problem solve to make context informed decision in the interest of student wellbeing and learning
- Proficiency in using Zoom, Google meet or other online platforms for facilitating online learning
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