DC Bilingual is seeking experienced PreK-5th grade teachers to join its team for the 2013-2014 school year. These teachers should excel as the following:
Critical-Thinking, Hard-Working, Data-Driven Planners
- Applicants should:
- have a a strong track record of academic and professional achievement
- demonstrate the capacity to plan logical, data-driven, highly-rigorous long-term, unit, and daily lessons.
- be willing to invest the time needed to prepare highly-effective lessons
Confident, Emotionally-Intelligent Classroom Leaders
- Applicants should:
- demonstrate the emotional-intelligence to cultivate a safe, welcoming, positive classroom culture
- be prepared to establish high expectations for student behavior and procedural efficiency
- be proactive in identifying a wide-range of strategies for investing students in their individual goals and those of the larger classroom and school communities
- show confidence in their ability to deliver instruction with poise, positivity, enthusiasm, and emotional constancy
Collaborative, Culturally-Competent Colleagues
- Applicants should:
- show strong communication skills and the capacity to both deliver and receive critical feedback
- be prepared to collaborate 1) across a diverse community of professionals and 2) around a shared vision