High School Band Teacher

Client of Teach Away Inc

Planning and
Responsibilities

Demonstrates lesson design with standards and unit outcomes in mind
Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar
engagement, and anticipates scholars misconceptions and confusions using a
Unit Delivery Plan
Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar
learning
Demonstrates content knowledge
Review and update curriculum

Classroom
Management

Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing
very high expectations.
Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all students and builds strong
relationships.
Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that students maintain them
throughout the year.
Gets all students to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their
actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy
Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured and nips virtually all
discipline problems in the bud.

Delivery of
Instruction

Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve
and motivate all scholars.

Professional
Responsibilities

Designs each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards
and unit outcomes.
Collaborates with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and look at
student work.
Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other
sources and implements them well.
Gets all scholars highly involved in focused work in which they are active
learners and problem-solvers.
Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Monitoring
Assessment & Follow-up

Frequently check for understanding and adjusting teaching, re-teaching and
follow-up from the data
Analyze and reflect on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit
plans are designed to meet student needs
Gives students a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the
information to fine-tune instruction.
Has students set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and
take responsibility for improving performance.

Family and
Community Outreach

Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families
cultures and values.
Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child s ability to reach
standards.
Gives parents clear expectations for student learning and behavior for the year.
Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates
parents on good news.
Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support
learning at home.
Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the
school.

Collaboration

Working with colleagues to analyze data for placements and reflect on work
(what worked and what did not work)
Seeking and accepting feedback from colleagues to improve student growth
Capitalizing on each other s strengths and working with each other s areas of
growth

Other
Responsibilities

Engage with community in after-school activities
Engage with community in open communication
Supervision duties will be assigned
After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week)