Teacher Job Description West Ridge Academy is a residential and day treatment program for children ages 9-18, designed to help struggling teens At our core,

West Ridge Academy is an all-encompassing program designed to heal families. It exists to create an environment of real change for future generations.

We provide lasting solutions through comprehensive mental health services for youth and their families. That is where hope and healing begins.

Teachers at West Ridge Academy are responsible for providing academic instruction and support.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contributes to student learning, growth, and advancement.
• Demonstrates academic competence in subject area(s) and displays an inclination for developing integrated and interdisciplinary work across the curriculum.
• Maintains a growth mindset toward student learning, teaching practice, and personal/collective professional development.
• Demonstrates a high degree of self-efficacy (agency); holds themselves accountable for learner outcomes and advocates for their students; works efficiently; and believes in their ability, the capability of their students, and themselves to succeed and excel.
• Facilitates problem-solving, with a curious mind and critical thinking skills, showing a high degree of creative application in the implementation of data-driven curriculum and practice.
• Serves as a role model and an innovative and creative learner with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, personal growth, and being on the cutting edge of instructional practice and pedagogy.
• Invests in the learners’ well-being, health, and safety, physically, socially, and emotionally.
• Recognizes the relationship between social-emotional learning and academic performance and aspires toward developing and teaching the whole child.
• Designs and facilitates differentiated and personalized learning goals and activities that follow a coherent sequence, are aligned to instructional goals, and engage students in high-level cognitive activity. Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in education or related field • Recent teaching experience, coursework, or other activity in area of primary instruction

• Demonstrated knowledge of current instructional strategies appropriate for students at the specified grade level
• Previous experience teaching the age levels and subject areas of the specific teaching position
• Teaching credentials appropriate for the level of students being taught