What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kindergarten Teacher position at Helix Community Schools?
Helix Aviation Academy, an academically distinguished charter school in North Baton Rouge, located at 7701 Plank Rd., is currently seeking a Kindergarten Teacher for the 2025-26 school year. We offer small class sizes, a beautiful environment and competitive salaries. Applicants must be degreed and teacher-certified or in a teaching certification program. Teachers are responsible for executing the mission and vision by ensuring that all students improve academically and demonstrate our core values. Teachers are responsible for providing high-quality, data-driven instruction and instructional support to all learners. They are responsible for collaborating with colleagues, including special education teachers, to ensure all students get the accommodations and modifications needed to master the standards. This is a full-time teaching position.
Responsibilities
We look for team members that embody our Aviators values. This includes the characteristics below.
Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization works through silos and forges strong relationships in order to achieve outcomes we believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree (BA) from an accredited college or university or equivalent.
Experience: Experience in a classroom setting preferred. Minimum of one (1) to three (3) years successful teaching experience. Possession of valid teaching certification (preferred but not required). Command of grades/subject specific content and theoretical knowledge of learning theory, including motivation, reinforcement, evaluation and feedback techniques.
Understanding of and commitment to Helix Aviation Academy values.
Successful results of criminal and employment background check.
Responsibilities
- Implement state learning standards, Helix Aviation Academy Charter School curricula and assessments to meet ambitious academic expectations.
- Learn, master, and deliver content and grade level curriculum, core content objectives, texts etc.
- Submit weekly lesson plans one week in advance for feedback.
- Implement formal and informal assessments to track each individual student's progress and learning needs, adjust lesson plans accordingly and update gradebook weekly.
- Effective facilitation and personal use of technology as a communication and educational tool to improve student achievement and manage work related tasks.
- Implement our clear and consistent behavior management system and build a strong sense of community in the classroom.
- Help shape and develop a school wide culture that fosters a productive and enthusiastic learning environment for each student.
- Establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with students and families based on trust, understanding and respect for the communities in which they identify.
- Communicate students' progress with parents on a weekly basis.
- Ability to use sound judgment and tact when dealing with children and parents.
- Establish an enriching, safe, and clean classroom and fun outside environment.
- Strong classroom management and organizational skills.
- Assess students' performance to ensure they are mastering age-appropriate skills.
- Monitor children's interactions, and nurture cooperation, learning, and sharing.
- Cooperate with administration and staff; team player!
- Participate in weekly manager check-ins, grade-level meetings, before and after-school duties, and school wide meetings and events.
- Engage in summer and year-long district, school and personal learning and development.
- Minimum of 40 hours spent at school per week.
We look for team members that embody our Aviators values. This includes the characteristics below.
Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization works through silos and forges strong relationships in order to achieve outcomes we believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree (BA) from an accredited college or university or equivalent.
Experience: Experience in a classroom setting preferred. Minimum of one (1) to three (3) years successful teaching experience. Possession of valid teaching certification (preferred but not required). Command of grades/subject specific content and theoretical knowledge of learning theory, including motivation, reinforcement, evaluation and feedback techniques.
Understanding of and commitment to Helix Aviation Academy values.
Successful results of criminal and employment background check.
