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Special Education Teaching AssistantGreat Hearts Academies

  • Not-remote
  • Full-time
  • Total comp
    Expected total yearly pay with bonus and equity at target, including any base pay.
  • Salary
  • Dallas, TX

Job Summary

Special Student Services Assistant Elementary Teacher Immediate Opening - Dallas, Texas

Great Hearts is a growing, multi-state network of 47 public, open-enrollment charter schools, committed to provide a high-quality, classical liberal arts education to well over 30,000 K-12 students in Texas, Arizona, and Louisiana.

Great Hearts exists to cultivate the hearts and minds of students through the pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Our primary tool of cultivation is the Socratic Method. We seek to employ this timeless teaching technique, in which the teacher uses questions and conversations to guide students from what they already know, to what they do not yet know, in all subjects. It is the development of these academic habits that causes students to inquire deeply, while also feeding their curious sense of wonder. Too often, school is a place where a child’s native delight in knowledge fades away with time.  Great Hearts is dedicated to cultivating and tending this love of learning from kindergarten through high school graduation.

The great books of our Western tradition will ignite their imaginations, while simultaneously facilitating conversations about wisdom and philosophy. Our Singapore Math program takes students on a journey, demonstrating concepts in concrete, real forms before revealing the same idea through pictorial representations that conclude with the familiar, yet abstract, equations, formulas and algorithms.

Our science curriculum is hands-on and historical, while our study of history is in-depth, as students frequently engage with primary sources. The study of language is a critical component of education, and in our classical tradition, all students will study Latin.

In music and art, our students will experience and also create beauty by imitating and studying the masters. Our physical education program, like every other aspect of our curriculum, seeks to create a lifelong love of movement and activity.

We want to provide a fulfilling, educational experience that will be characterized by order and joy. Our schools are filled with carefully chosen faculty who demonstrate expertise in their subject area, while also exhibiting the wonder and moral character we seek to develop in our students.  This pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty will inspire and shape students into the best versions of themselves, setting in motion growth that will continue the rest of their lives. Please direct all questions to pwofford@greatheartsamerica.org

Kindergarten through 5th grade Classroom Teachers will implement a Core Knowledge curriculum. Homeroom subjects will include Language Arts (Riggs or Spalding for phonics), Mathematics (Singapore), History and Geography (American/World History and Geography), and Science.

Job Specifications

  • POSITION: Special Student Services Assistant Elementary Teacher (K-5)
  • DEPARTMENT: Faculty
  • LOCATION: See a map of our Dallas Academies - https://texas.greatheartsamerica.org/academies/#northtexas
  • REPORTS TO: Academy Headmaster and Assistant Headmaster
  • Questions: careers@greatheartsamerica.org

Teachers are the most important daily leaders and shapers of intellectual and ethical culture on our campuses. Every teacher is a role model and must always act and speak as one. The Faculty member’s signature on the Employment Notice issued by Great Hearts Academies signifies his or her consent to abide by the following description as conditions for continued employment. All items below apply to full-time and part-time teachers, unless otherwise indicated. The Headmaster/designate is the direct supervisor of each teacher/faculty member. Great Hearts and Academy administration may modify, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time, for any reason. Great Hearts is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualifications

  • Special Student Services Assistant Teachers must hold at least a High School diploma. 
  • All faculty and staff must be authorized to work in the United States.
  • Great Hearts teachers, whether certified or not, demonstrate a commitment to and love for the liberal arts.
  • Faculty and Staff shall have a valid Department of Public Safety IVP fingerprint clearance card indicating they have passed the state required background check to work in a public school.

Job Specifications

  • Create a classroom environment that will feel safe for all students to learn and reach their fullest potential.
  • Create thoughtful and well planned lessons while adhering to the curriculum.
  • Maintain orderly classroom.
  • Provide timely and meaningful evaluation/correction of student work.
  • Engage students utilizing the Socratic method.
  • Lead students through intelligence, charisma, humor, moral integrity, and example.
  • He/she must fully embrace the school's vision of community, of learning, and of leadership.
  • Perform additional assigned campus duties.
  • Read, know, and support the philosophy, policies, procedures and other pertinent data of the school as published in the Faculty Handbook and most current Family Handbook.
  • Follow school policies and procedures, including the Academy Crisis Plan, for ensuring the safety and security of students on campus.
  • Provide reasonable assistance to those students in need of individual help and assists students to make-up work after approved absences.
  • Communicate regularly and as needed with parents.
  • Initiate parent-teacher conferences and respond to parental inquiries by the end of the next school day.
  • Attend Open Houses, special school events (such as concerts, plays and special presentations) and certain staff meetings designated as All Faculty Meetings.
  • Attend all Great Hearts professional development opportunities, including New Faculty Orientation and The Summit.
  • Support and enforce the school dress and behavior codes and makes reasonable efforts to promote the orderly behavior of all students in the school, on the grounds, and at off-campus school activities.
  • Keep accurate records and make reports as required by the Headmaster.
  • Evaluate and document the student’s day-to-day work, prepare the quarter report and prepare and participate in the formal semester evaluation and conference.
  • Attend and participate in review meetings with the Headmaster.
  • Participate in faculty development on early release days.
  • Is an active member of the community of learners, and continues to pursue his or her own professional growth and development by taking graduate courses and/or attending seminars and workshops related to the profession.
  • Pursue excellence in teaching and continues to develop his or her own knowledge of the great ideas and works of Western Civilization.
  • Maintain regular consistent and professional attendance, punctuality, personal appearance, and adherence to relevant health & safety procedures.
  • Maintain positive supervision at all times while in the classroom and on campus.
  • Must be able to maintain a stationary position for 25% of the time.
  • May frequently move around the classroom, position self to be level with student desks and communicate accurate information and converse with others for 75% of the time.
  • May be required to move or position equipment up to 10-15 pounds.
  • May be exposed to outdoor weather.
  • Some computer use is expected.
  • Some travel may be required for special events and/or field trips.

Benefits

  • Exceptional Benefits (medical, dental, vision, graduate tuition assistant, flexible spending account, etc.) with minimal employee cost
  • Matching 401K program
  • Merit-based bonus for additional compensation opportunities

Stipended opportunities for coaching, club sponsorship, overload teaching, admin. duties, etc.