Kindergarten Teacher

Ludington Area School District

Kindergarten Teacher

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan, prepare, and deliver lesson plans and instructional materials that promote student engagement and facilitate learning in alignment with Michigan grade level curriculum.
• Implement balanced and systematic assessment practices that align with the district’s multi-tiered system of supports. 
• Use relevant technology to support and differentiate instruction and engage students in the learning process. Candidate must be driven to teach and lead with technology implementing one-on-one devices in the classroom. 
• Establish a classroom environment that values positive and meaningful relationships through intentional implementation of the district’s SEL and Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports System.
• Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to remove barriers that interfere with academic success. 
• Exhibit an ability to work within a Professional Learning Communities.
• Effectively and efficiently communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues, and parents regarding student progress and needs.
• Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities.
• Willingness to participate in professional learning communities to support school-wide and district-wide alignment of best practices.

Qualified candidates should skillfully demonstrate the following competencies:

• The strong desire to achieve outstanding results in a short amount of time.
• The strong desire and ability to build meaningful relationships with students in order to exert academic press and influence.
• The skill and willingness to leverage the student support network to ensure that students’ social, emotional, nutritional and health needs are addressed.
• The ability to collaboratively create and execute clear, logical instructional plans that produce strong results in student learning.
• The capacity to rigorously create and sustain a well-orchestrated system of ongoing data collection and analysis to inform a continuously responsive and adaptive system of tiered instruction attentive to student’s specific academic needs.
• The capacity to align curriculum, instruction, and assessments while responding to individual needs of students.
• The ability to seek out knowledgeable peers, coaches or administrators for instructional support in the never-ending quest to deliver the vision of high quality subject-specific instruction in every class period of every day.
• The strong desire and commitment to be an outstanding addition to Ludington Elementary School.

Required Professional Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Education
• Valid Michigan Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education

Apply in writing, send a letter of interest, resume, three letters of recommendation, copies of certification and transcripts to:  jobs@lasd.net. Please submit application materials in one (1) PDF.