Position Type:
Literacy/Reading Teacher, part-time position
Date Posted: March 2024
Location:
Open Wings Learning Community and School
Located at 13022 Wilmot Road, Kenosha, WI 53142
Date Available: August 25, 2024
Qualifications:
- Middle-level elementary school teaching experience and/or elementary special education teaching experience
- Experience teaching reading to emerging readers preferred
- Previous classroom teaching experience preferred
- Previous experience with complex learners preferred
- Understanding of progressive education ideals & practices preferred
Curriculum and Instruction:
- Develop deep understanding of individual learners in a small mixed-age classroom
- Support the implementation of research-based curriculum in reading and math
- Participate in teaching team to support learning needs of all students at Open Wings
- Participate in ongoing professional development through weekly meetings and regular curricular seminars
- Other duties as assigned such as lunch and recess times of student connection and guidance
Open Wings Learning Community is a small independent school that opened in the fall of 2012. We work as a team of teachers, therapists, classroom associates, and volunteers in our school. Our environment is collaborative, creative, and research focused.
We believe in the innate curiosity of all learners and seek to create optimal educational environments to nurture that learning. We teach through the motivations of our students and create and implement individualized curricula to address areas of need. We support our students so that they experience success in our learning environment each day.
Open Wings Learning Community is committed to recruiting a diverse faculty and to creating a culture that supports continuous growth and development for our students and staff, we seek an educator who is reflective, open to feedback, and eager for professional collaboration.
Interested applicants should email resumes to: openwingsoffice@openwingslearning.org
