First Grade Teacher

Job Description

Job Description
Qualifications, Skills, and Competencies:
1. Provide positive role-modeling for students based on our Catholic Faith.
2. Understand early reading methodologies and basic mathematics.
3. Ability to communicate with young learners, parents, and colleagues.
4. Demonstrate patience and empathy in all situations and circumstances.
5. Ability to create engaging lessons and to adapt to changing needs.
6. Listen and interact effectively with students, parents, colleagues, leadership, and community.
7. Develop and implement a strategic planning system which includes appropriate grade level scope and sequence according to the standards of St. Aloysius Academy and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
8. Use formal and informal assessments strategies as needed to maximize achievement.
9. Manage the classroom through established routine and procedures to create a positive and safe learning experience.

About the Employer

St. Aloysius Academy, established by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a private Catholic elementary school committed to the spiritual, moral and academic development of each student. The Academy prepares young boys to assume with confidence roles of Christian leadership and service as men for others within a rapidly evolving global society.
Through dedication and commitment of a caring and professional faculty and staff, partnering with supportive parents, each child is led to embrace, and to develop his God-given gifts and talents to be prepared to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century