Start Date: August 2024Reports to: Lower School DirectorJob Summary: BB&N is seeking a full-time Grade 6 Homeroom and Language Arts Teacher for the 2024-2025 academic year. This is a one-year role with possible continuation after participation in a search process conducted during the school year. The BB&N Lower School consists of Beginners through Grade 6.Responsibilities include managing a homeroom as well as teaching three sections of English Language Arts. The core of the English Language Arts program follows a curriculum designed using an analytical approach to literature. Writing serves as the cornerstone of the curriculum, fostering critical thinking and expression through an analytical exploration of literature. In addition, this teacher collaborates with the Social Studies teacher for cross-curricular discussions and projects on human rights, identity, and race. There is also collaboration between the sixth-grade and Middle School teams to plan programs that transition sixth graders to the Middle School. Responsibilities also include creating and maintaining a positive classroom climate, involvement in curriculum development, evaluating each student’s performance and growth, planning and presenting displays designed to exhibit students’ work for the school community, working closely with other teachers in developing single discipline, and interdisciplinary learning experiences, preparing progress reports and conference with families throughout the year, and performing scheduled campus duties.This position teams with other faculty members to chaperone a 4 day/3 night trip with the Grade 6 students in October. Some additional responsibilities include but are not limited to, leading/co-leading affinity groups, attendance at weekly faculty meetings, ordering of materials, tools, and instructional aids, and any other duties that may be assigned by the Administration.In addition, teachers are expected to be committed to the following practices:Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and the impact it has on the curriculum and the community. Social-emotional learningUsing the visual arts to expand on the thoughts and ideas of the students.Collaboration between adults in our community that evolves and advances practice.Documentation and assessment of learning in ways that make the learning visible.Understanding of Inquiry based-interdisciplinary research projects and the development of authentic and meaningful experiences that results in exemplary work (a student’s best work) and lifelong learning.Organization and use of materials within different disciplines in skilled and inventive ways to deepen learning.Installation of organized and aesthetically pleasing learning environments.