Dallas Independent School District is seeking a Generalist Montessori Teacher for Grades 1-3. The role involves providing students with appropriate learning activities and experiences to help them achieve their potential in various aspects of growth while ensuring quality instruction in a safe environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide students with appropriate learning activities and experience designed to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth
- Enable students to develop competencies and skills to function successfully in society
- Assist and support building principal to ensure on-site administration and execution of the district's educational programs, policies, and regulations and quality instruction for all students in a safe and healthy environment
- Develop and implement lesson plans that fulfill requirements of the district's instruction curriculum program and show written evidence of preparation as required
- Prepare lessons that reflect accommodations for differences in student learning styles
- Present subject matter according to guidelines established by Texas Education Agency, Board of Trustee policies, and administrative regulations
- Establish efficient classroom management procedures
- Establish and maintain standards of pupil behavior
- Establish a system of student evaluation within the guidelines prescribed in state law or adopted by the school district
- Continually evaluate and record various aspects of students’ progress and report to parents as needed and required
- Teach within the course of study for the subject area at the grade level as prescribed in state law or adopted by the school district
- Understand and plan lessons leading to subject area objectives and assume the responsibility for written lesson plans for substitutes
- Provide a variety of planned learning experiences using a variety of media and methods in order to motivate students and best utilize available time for instruction
- Identify pupil needs and cooperate with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students resolve health, attitude, and learning problems
- Be available for counseling with students and parents before and after school
- Share the responsibility of interpreting the educational programs to the community through such activities as open house and PTA meetings
- Plan and coordinate the work of aides and other paraprofessional and student teachers (when applicable)
- Participate cooperatively with the principal to develop the system by which he/she will be evaluated in conformance with the district’s uniform guidelines for evaluation and assessment
- Keep accurate records of student information; compile, maintain, and file all reports, records, and other documents required by the school and district
- Regular and punctual attendance at the worksite is required for this position
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university
- Valid Texas teacher certificate with required endorsements for subject and subject level assigned
- Demonstrated general knowledge of curriculum and instruction
- Demonstrated knowledge of various routine tasks, duties, and procedures and the ability to follow specific instructions with little or no previous experience
- Demonstrated flexibility to cope with the challenges of a rapidly changing world
- Demonstrated willingness to remain current with the latest developments in the profession
Company Overview
Dallas Independent School District provides Education and Teaching. It was founded in 1925, and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.dallasisd.org/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Dallas Independent School District has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 277 in 2025, 290 in 2024, 269 in 2023, 242 in 2022, 209 in 2021, 235 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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