Computer Science Teacher (CT)

Description:

Who We Are:

 
Excellence Community Schools (ECS) is an emerging Charter Management Organization (CMO) supporting schools in the Bronx, NY and Stamford, CT. Our programs are based on a proven, nationally recognized model, which originated in our flagship school, the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, a 2012 National Blue Ribbon School. 

Our Mission and Vision: 

Our schools prepare young scholars to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private, and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and ethical development. We accomplish this by offering a challenging and rigorous academic curriculum, which at the earliest of grades has an eye towards college preparation. To achieve this, our schools create a supportive and caring environment that at all times has high expectations of all students. We offer a differentiated, project-based learning environment that seeks to develop high-level analytic and critical thinking skills in all of our students. Our engaging and rigorous approach to educating our scholars is implemented by a collaborative team of teachers.

Responsibilities:

• Teach Computer Science class from K-4.
• Assist and or teach advanced algebra and trigonometry to scholars.
• Assist in assessing changing curricular needs and offer plans for improvement
• Desire to plan product architecture and roadmap
• Work alongside ECS staff and teaching team to best meet the needs and learning of students.
• Facilitate a dynamic and collaborative classroom community.
• Help build software programs to improve student learning.
• Work on software programs to assist staff and faculty.
• Assist students outside of class as necessary.
• Serve as a project manager for students during project Development.
• Develop and maintain genuine, positive and consistent communication with parents.
• Building a classroom culture that promotes active learning and computer science.
• Learn a new programming language or skill every quarter as part of professional development.
• Make direct technical contributions (writing, debugging, reviewing and deploying code).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: