# Teacher for Physical Education Classes

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $27.5
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Newcomer Youth Summer Academy (NYSA) is a six-week program that prepares newly arrived refugee youth to succeed at their grade level in the New York City public school system. We are seeking a teacher who will create and lead physical education classes for elementary school students, largely geared towards team sports and game play.

**Responsibilities:**

- Participate in mandatory school programming

- Participate in instructional planning sessions, trainings, and all program meetings

- Plan and implement a culturally and developmentally-responsive curriculum

- Submit daily lesson plans on a weekly basis in advance of the date of instruction

- Utilize multilingual instructional approaches for English Language Learners

- Collaborate with Classroom Culture Lead Teachers and staff in planning and reviewing student progress

- Lead classroom climate in accordance with Academy philosophy and protocols

- Collaborate with teachers, administrators, and families to create strategies that support student success

- Engage in instructional coaching cycles and participate in weekly meetings

- Pending demand, provide early and/or after-care supervision to a cohort of students

- Review student progress and make instructional adjustments as needed

- Substitute as needed for colleagues' classes

- Complete All Staff Survey to provide feedback on NYSA

- Comply with all IRC policies and protocols

- Other duties as assigned.

**Requirements:**

- Experience with teaching, leading, or coaching group sports programming required

- Bachelor’s or higher degree in physical education or related field strongly desired

- Experience teaching English Language Learners/multilingual learners strongly desired

- Ability to work well with people of diverse cultural backgrounds strongly desired

- Experience working with refugee and/or immigrant populations is strongly desired

- Strong relationship building and classroom management skills strongly desired

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills

- Highly organized, dependable, responsive, and collaborative work style

- Strong team player who is self-directed and organized

- Strength in cultural humility-building

- Fluency in written and spoken English required. Second language proficiency in relevant language highly desirable (Arabic, Dari, Farsi, French, Fulani, Haitian Creole, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian.)

**Benefits:** We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. In the US, these include: 10 sick days, 10 US holidays, 20-25 paid time off days depending on role and tenure, medical insurance starting at $163 per month, dental starting at $6.50 per month, and vision starting at $5 per month, FSA for healthcare and commuter costs, a 403b retirement savings plans with immediately vested matching, disability & life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support counseling and care in times of crisis and mental health struggles.

## Skills

### Required
- physical education
- teaching
- group sports programming

### Nice to have
- English Language Learners
- multilingual learners
- refugee and/or immigrant populations
- classroom management
- relationship building
- Arabic
- Dari

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