Pretoria Lower Elementary Homeroom Teacher

**PRETORIA LOWER ELEMENTARY HOMEROOM TEACHER**:
**CAMPUS**: Pretoria Campus | **SUPERVISOR**: Pretoria Campus Principal | **START DATE**: February 2025 |
**POSTING DATE**: 04 July 2025 | **CLOSING DATE**: 11 July 2025

**Inspire Learning to Build Our Better World.** At the American International School of Johannesburg (AISJ), we are committed to providing an exceptional education that empowers global citizens to fulfill their future purpose. Our vision is to inspire learning to build a better world. We seek a dedicated and passionate professional who aligns with our commitment to excellence and believes in the transformative power of education. Every team member is crucial in creating a supportive and nurturing learning environment. At AISJ, we value every employee as a learner and expect them to embody and support the AISJ Portrait of Learner (**_Resilience_**_, _**_Mindful_**_, _**_Thinker_**_, _**_Globally Connected_**_, _**_Curious_**_, _**_Contributor_**) through their work. We are dedicated to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion within our school community.
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**POSITION OVERVIEW**:
The Lower Elementary Teacher draws on a rich repertoire of pedagogical practices to inform curriculum for children’s learning, development and wellbeing. They are responsive to children and their unique social, emotional, and learning profiles. The Lower Elementary Teacher develops positive relationships with families and other AISJ team members. They collaborate, plan and implement intentional learning opportunities that incorporate a spirit of play and agency through concept-driven inquiry inspired experiences. The Lower Elementary Teacher creates physical, temporal, intellectual, social and emotional environments that value the cultural and contexts of children and their families. They systematically analyse, assess, monitor and evaluate and share children’s learning, development and wellbeing in ways to understand, acknowledge and document children’s progress and development.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in education
- Master’s degree in education (preferred)
- Valid teaching certification
- Minimum of 5 years teaching experience in elementary education settings
- Expertise in building a student-centered, concept-driven, inquiry-based learning environment.
- Experience with adaptive learning environments and collaborative school cultures
- IB PYP experience (preferred)

**PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES**:

- International school teaching experience.
- Experience in curriculum and assessment development.
- Investment in and ability to develop a sense of community, belonging and trust.
- An ability to communicate and build relationships with Elementary learners, team members and families.
- A positive attitude and committed team player. Someone who is solution-focussed.
- Deep understanding of the developmental needs of elementary school learners.
- Experience with data-informed, responsive practices.
- Commitment to and proven success within a learning-focussed, collaborative professional environment.
- A proven ability to differentiate instruction to meet individual needs and integrate learning into the daily schedule.
- Experience in integrating technology to enhance learning.
- Experience using standards and backwards design to plan instruction.

**PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES**:
In addition to the grade level expectations, teachers at AISJ are welcomed into a collegial and collaborative working environment. In support of this, teachers are expected to:

- Communicate and liaise with colleagues to identify and develop transdisciplinary learning experiences.
- Take an active role in proactive behavior management and wellbeing of students.
- Use a range of strategies to differentiate learning.
- Collaboratively plan units of study.
- Attend and constructively contribute to team meetings.
- Assist in supervision of student breaks. Supervise students in and out of classroom activities during the school day.
- Maintain up-to-date records of assessment, attendance, planning, reports, conferences, and communication with families.
- Establish links with the community to ensure that families are kept well informed about student progress.
- Participate in at least one co-curricular activity per year.
- Participate in and assist with school events as required.
- Participate in curriculum and professional development opportunities as required and implement new learning.
- Identify student needs and be the primary advocate of the students in meeting their needs.
- Provide learning environments that are stimulating where children can develop their potential and experience growth.
- Other tasks as determined by the supervisor.

**Teacher Competencies**

**Planning for Learning**
- **Curriculum Design**: Creates personalized, challenging learning sequences that build on prior knowledge while ensuring knowledge transfer and regular reflection opportunities.
- **Collaborative Plann