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Job Title: AIG Teacher
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Reports to: Principal
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FLSA Status: Exempt
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Main Purpose: East Wake Academy fulfills its mission of maintaining a safe, challenging and creative learning environment. This environment strives to develop character and self-esteem while equipping students with the skills needed for a rigorous curriculum and to thrive in a college preparatory atmosphere producing academic excellence. We are dedicated to instilling the values of academic citizenship by creating relationships with parents, businesses and civic partners. East Wake Academy is committed to building a strong foundation of learning while providing our students the competitive edge to win in tomorrow's world.
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Core Accountabilities: The AIG teacher performs various tasks to provide appropriate direct services for Academically and Intellectually Gifted students at East Wake Academy. This position includes record-keeping assistance related to the district’s plan for these students. The AIG Teacher is also responsible for direct services to these students and collaborating with school staff members to foster the potential of other high-performing students. Work requires the use of technology along with the most current teaching practices.
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Responsibilities:
- Provide direct and indirect instructional services to AIG students who demonstrate a need for differentiation in core subjects
- Plan a program of study, employing a variety of instructional techniques and instructional media that meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of students
- Organize enrichment experiences to develop potential within students and enhance the learning experience
- Model differentiation strategies
- Work closely with teachers and other staff members to integrate AIG services in regular educational settings
- Coordinate, administer, and interpret appropriate testing for identification of AIG students
- Facilitate staff development to ensure school staff is aware of best practices for AIG students
- Maintain accurate and complete records as required by AIG plan
- Create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students
- Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment materials, and facilities
- Follow and implement all East Wake Academy’s policies and procedures
- Encourage students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior
- Guide the learning process toward the achievement of curriculum goals and establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects
- Communicate expectations clearly
- Evaluate students’ academic and social growth
- Co-teach with other staff members
- Additional duties as assigned by the supervisor
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Required Skills and Knowledge:
- Extensive knowledge of Common Core and Essential Standards, effective intervention strategies, and best practices
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Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Valid Teaching License and AIG certification
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What you bring to the job:
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to disaggregate, interpret, and analyze data
- Ability to effectively collaborate with others
- Ability to multi-task
- Ability to work with diverse groups
- Ability to utilize technology in a meaningful manner
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Physical Requirements:
Office Position - Sedentary
See Attached
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Physical Job Requirements Position Sheet
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Job Title: AIG Teacher
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Reports to: Principal
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Office Position - Sedentary
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The physical activity of this position.
- Balancing. Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
- Stooping. Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
- Kneeling. Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
- Crouching. Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Crawling. Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
- Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Standing. Particularly for sustained periods of time. Approximate Duration 8 hours.
- Walking. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
- Pushing. Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
- Pulling. Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
- Lifting. Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Maximum Weight 50lbs Average Weight 20lbs.
- Fingering. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Grasping. Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Feeling. Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
- Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
- Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- The worker is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and or heavy equipment.
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Physical exertion of the position. (Please check only one):
- Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
- Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
- Light work. Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.
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The visual acuity requirements including color, depth perception, and field vision. (Please check only one)
- The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.
- The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned (i.e., custodial, food services, general laborer, etc.) or to make general observations of facilities or structures (i.e., security guard, inspection, etc.)
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The conditions the worker will be subject to in this position. (Please check all that apply).
- The worker is required to function in narrow aisles or passageways.
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