Urgent| Middle School Teacher

● Deep commitment to work towards wellbeing and SEL of students and other stakeholders in the education system

● 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

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 children
- Create a safe and caring environment for children 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 children 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

- Assessment
- Thoughtfully design and implement

inclusive and differentiated facilitation of formative, summative assessments of children's development cognitively, socially, emotionally, and physically
- Continually monitor and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health
- Analyzing students learning growth and strategize 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 through the year to share the progress of the child’s learning and development
- Visit homes of students towards building relationships and understanding 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 the 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 and particiatorganizational 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) are produced by Apni Shala team

- Organizational development
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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 degree
- Well developed oral and written communication in English
- Fluent conversational skills in Hindi and/or Marathi
- Familiarity and practice or experience with variety of art techniques and approaches to teach or facilitate the use of art
- Ability to build and nurture relationships with young learners of 4 to 12 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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