Title: Enrichment Student Support Teacher

Position Overview: Park City Day School, a small, independent Toddler through Grade 8 school located in Park City, UT, seeks a passionate, creative, and energetic educator to join our team for the 2024-25 school year as a part-time enrichment teacher to work with groups of students within the student support program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support and teach small groups by enriching and extending their homeroom academics (Literacy or math) or other high interest topics

• Develop and deliver lessons to small groups of students qualified for enrichment

• Communicate effectively with teachers around the development of materials

• Communicate to families about enrichment classes

• Help to develop the enrichment model, qualification process, and communication of that to the PCDS community

• May lead intervention groups and help the student support department

• Assist in assessment of students

Requirements:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience working with children in an organized setting.

• Demonstrated understanding of child development

• Demonstrated willingness to be creative and bring in new activities for the group.

• Evidence of strong organizational skills, oral communication, and interpersonal skills.

• Knowledge of DIBELS and MAP assessments

Personal and professional qualities: The successful candidate should possess the following personal qualities:

• Educational Expertise: PCDS teachers evidence a successful academic background and a mindset for lifelong learning and continuous professional improvement.

• Rapport with Children: PCDS teachers instruct in a broad range of curricular and co-curricular areas; however, the true subject (not object) of a PCDS education is children. PCDS teachers’ ability to connect, both individually and collectively, with children is critical to their success.

• Collegiality: Although the self-confidence and autonomy to plan and lead classes is essential, PCDS teachers collaborate with colleagues and share ideas to ensure that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. In peer groups, successful Park City Day School teachers serve both as contributing followers and respectful leaders.

• Engagement: As invested citizens of a school community and world network, PCDS teachers model the active intellectual and moral engagement necessary for a successful, sustainable society.

• Adaptability: To set a high standard in a world characterized by constant and rapid changes, PCDS teachers adapt creatively in response to institutional and global circumstances, advances in educational technology and innovation in instructional methods.

• "Strive for Five" School Values: Our teachers daily model our five School Values - Integrity, Responsibility, Respect, Teamwork, and Compassion - and actively integrate them into the fabric of our school community through reflective opportunities and other daily “teachable moments.”

General Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree

• Background in special education or literacy/ math intervention

• Knowledge of working with advanced students