Middle School Robotics and Coding Teacher

Position Responsibilities

Middle School Educator Responsibilities

• Foster a sense of student belonging by cultivating joy and purpose throughout the Middle School.

• Cultivate a caring and culturally responsive learning community in Advisory, as well as the classroom, taking into account physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of students.

• Experience and/or demonstrated skills facilitating restorative conversations when supporting student behavior in the learning environment.

• Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world issues, and a culturally responsive curriculum.

• Design quality formative, summative and self-guided assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicate students’ growth and achievement.

• Plan and implement engaging learning experiences that are inquiry-based, collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated.

• Respond to learners’ diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions.

• Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback with one another, and engages in professional learning and reflection.

• Actively engage in professional learning and growth through regular observation and feedback cycles with Professional Learning Community Coaches and Principals.

• Design and implement inquiry-based learning experiences in and beyond the classroom to prompt learners to question, investigate, create, and reflect.

• Experience with or interest in co-teaching in a flexible learning environment.

• Demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

• Integrate technology in innovative ways in daily instruction to enhance learning.

• Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.).

• Strive for continuous self-improvement as a life-long learner.

• Model the Core Values in your interactions with all members of the school community.

• Lead and engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the learning spaces, which extend learning experiences for students (supervision, overnight Classroom Without Walls trips, sports coaching, field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, TRi Time, community service projects, etc.)

• Connect with and be available to parents and students during and outside of school hours (in person and via email communication)

Role-Specific Responsibilities

Robotics:

• Develop and implement a robust MS robotics engineering curriculum.

• Develop and manage the MS robotics engineering classroom/workspace and associated tools and resources.

• Coordinate with technology, coding, and robotics engineering (TCR) colleagues to develop/strengthen the SAS K-12 robotics engineering pathway

• Familiarity with MS-level robotics competitions (FLL, VEX, VEX IQ, etc).

• Oversee/coordinate the after-school robotics programming in the MS.

• Encourage inclusive participation in robotics, ensuring opportunities for all students, including underrepresented groups

• Promote, coordinate, and supervise participation of MS students in robotics competitions, both internal and external.

• Stay current with emerging tools, languages, and practices to bring innovation into the MS robotics engineering program.

Coding:

• Develop and implement a robust MS coding curriculum that provides students with a variety of age-appropriate coding experiences.

• Develop and manage the MS coding lab, along with its associated tools and resources.

• Coordinate with technology, coding, and robotics engineering (TCR) colleagues to develop and strengthen SAS K-12 curriculum pathways.

• Oversee/coordinate Middle School after-school coding opportunities

• Encourage inclusive participation in coding by ensuring opportunities for all students, including those from underrepresented groups.

• Promote, coordinate, and supervise participation of MS students in coding and coding-related competitions, both internal and external.

• Stay current with emerging tools, languages, and practices to bring innovation into the MS coding program.

Position Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

• Master’s Degree in relevant field preferred

• Teaching license or a degree in education

• At least two years of full-time teaching experience preferred

• Standards-based curriculum experience preferred

• Excellent verbal and written English language skills

• Confident technology skills for teaching and administrative tasks

Working Requirements

• Sponsoring and/or coaching after-school activities are part of the responsibility of the professional educator. Therefore, faculty shall be available to coach and/or sponsor an athletic team or other extracurricular activity. Each faculty member is expected to do a minimum of one Category 1 activity or sport per year.

• Required attendance at school professional learning days

• Chaperone and participate in evening and/or weekend school activities each year, as assigned (including “Back-to-School Night”).