Job Description
Job Description
Starting Salary $55,000
Summary
At Pace we transform girls’ lives through academic and counseling programs based on a gender-responsive, strength-based and trauma informed framework. Team members create a safe place for girls to learn, grow, and heal.
The teacher role is for educators who have a commitment and passion for educating girls. Our year-round program affords multiple benefits to students and their families, as they receive wraparound support in education and social services.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
Required
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher
- Must be certified 6-12th in the appropriate content area (or in the process of certification) to teach in Florida
- Reading Endorsement
- Attains and/or maintains certifications and endorsements by required deadline
- Valid Florida Driver’s License
- Knowledge of subject area.
Preferred
- Minimum one-year teaching experience
- Experience teaching in an at-risk youth environment
- Education degree
Roles and Responsibilities
Curriculum and Instruction
- Knows how to design and align instruction according to state standards
- Uses formal and informal assessment to monitor progress and plan instruction to meet girls’ individual needs
- Plans for effective classroom instruction by utilizing innovative, appropriate, and differentiated instructional techniques and strategies
- Creates a safe and trusting classroom environment that is gender responsive, trauma informed and strength-based
- Maintains appropriate standards of behavior to support an environment that is conducive for learning
Progress Monitoring and Outcomes Measurement
- To develop, monitor, and update Performance Monitoring Plan learning goals, standards, and expectations in collaboration with the girls
- Promotes confidence, perseverance and responsibility in the students for their achievement of personal academic goals
- Is knowledgeable about state of Florida graduation requirements and promotes college readiness
- Utilizes data to assess girls’ progress and academic growth, and documents girls’ progress into Pace
- Impacts
- Works collaboratively with center colleagues to accomplish student, center, and school district goals
- Other duties as assigned
Additional Qualifications and Requirements
Other
- Must adhere to the Pace Center for Girls Values and Guiding Principles and upholds the ethical standards of the Agency
- Follows mission, values and principles, policies and procedures of the Pace Center for Girls
- Availability to work evenings and weekends as required to fulfill workload requirements
- Must be able to travel by automobile, plane, train, etc.; occasional overnight travel
Competencies
- Achievement oriented – action oriented.
- Teamwork – collaborates.
- Self-awareness – demonstrates selfawareness.
- Functional expertise and usage – functional.
- Accountability – ensures accountability.
- Oral communication – communicates effectively.
- Customer focused – focused on customer.
- Integrity – instills trust.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics can be stressful, is fast-paced and requires alertness and flexibility. The noise level is usually quiet; however, noise can accelerate to moderate and high levels.