POSITION: Team Reach Teacher/ Master Team Reach Teacher

WAGE/HOUR STATUS: Exempt

DEPARTMENT: As Assigned

REPORTS TO: MCL; Principal or chief academic officer may be the supervisor for formal evaluation

at district or state level

PAY GRADE: Teacher + stipend ($8,000-$10,000)

NO. OF DAYS: According to district approved calendar

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Valid teaching certificate (optional, depending on school context and legal requirements)

EXPERIENCE:

Demonstrated effectiveness working with people who have differing cultural backgrounds and/or personal characteristics.

POSITION FUNCTION/PURPOSE

Like all Team Reach Teachers, the Master Team Reach Teacher (MTRT) serves on a multi-classroom leader’s (MCL’s) team, directly teaching more students than usual, but typically without raising instructional group sizes. Master team reach teachers also help the MCL lead a larger team (e.g., by coaching part of the team) and/or reach significantly more students than other teachers.

Additionally, the MTRT has previously produced consistently high-growth student learning.

With guidance from the team’s MCL, all team reach teachers (TRTs) and MRTs plan and deliver instruction for multiple classes in a school where students rotate between face-to-face learning with the teacher and digital or offline learning supervised by a paraprofessional known as a reach associate or a teacher resident. While one class of students is with a reach associate, the MTRT/TRT teaches another class of students, focusing on delivering personalized and enriched instruction. Each MTRT/TRT is responsible for co-planning, co-preparing, and delivering instruction, and co-monitoring student progress to determine instructional needs. MTRTs and TRTs are also responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of instruction supervised by the reach associate(s) and making or recommending changes. The MTRT/TRT collaborates with others working with the same students or subjects, including other members of the multi-classroom leader’s team as well as tutors or reach associates, to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high-progress, enriched learning for every student. In elementary schools, teachers may specialize by subject.

Major Responsibilities

Teaches and may help with part of the MCL’s role, such as helping coach other teachers, as determined by the MCL. With guidance from MCL and in collaboration with team colleagues, does or helps lead the following:

Planning and Preparation

• Set high expectations of achievement that are ambitious and measurable for students.
• Plan backward to align all lessons, activities, and assessments in designated subject(s).
• Design in-person instruction that is enriched (developing higher-order thinking skills) and personalized (reflecting learning levels and interests of individual students).
• Design personalized digital or offline assignments for students while under reach associate
• Design assessments that accurately assess student
• Determine how students spend all instructional

Classroom Environment

• 
  Hold students accountable for high expectations of behavior and
• Create physical classroom environments conducive to collaborative and individual
• Establish a culture of respect, enthusiasm, and

Instruction

• 
  Hold students accountable for ambitious, measurable standards of academic
• Identify and address individual students’ social, emotional, and behavioral learning

needs and barriers.

• Identify and address individual students’ development of organizational and time-

management skills.

• Invest students in learning with several influence methods.
• Incorporate questioning and discussion in student learning.

• Incorporate small-group and individual instruction to personalize and tailor instruction to individual needs.
• Monitor and analyze student assessment data to inform personalized, enriched instruction.
• Provide reach associate with student groupings, instructional assignments, and assessment
• Communicate with students and keep them informed of their
• Solicit and eagerly receive feedback from multi-classroom leader and team members to improve professional skills.
• Maintain regular communication with families, and work collaboratively with them to design learning at home and school, and to encourage a home life conducive to learning.
• Collaborate with reach associate, other teachers, and staff responsible for the same students.
• Participate in professional development at school, including on-the-job development led by the MCL.

Qualification Requirements

• Knowledge of subject matter being
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Valid teaching certificate (optional, depending on school context and legal requirements).
• Prior evidence of high-progress student outcomes in the relevant subjects (in the top 25 percent compared to other teachers in a state or on national tests).
• Demonstrated effectiveness working with people who have differing cultural backgrounds and/or personal characteristics, including race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or economic differences. Preference given for experience working successfully with those of similar demographics to the desired school placement.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made if necessary while performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; move throughout the room and/or facility; communicate verbally and electronically; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; kneel, stoop, crouch, and/or crawl; and climb or balance. Regularly required to lift or exert force of up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus. Regular attendance required.

Equipment used

Telephone

Computer and printer

Calculator

Copy Machine

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive description of all work requirements and responsibilities. Additionally, the minimum level of education noted as a requirement could be supplemented by commensurate experience and/or certification(s) as determined by the hiring manager.