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.