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Mpls Public Schools is hiring for the position of Elementary Teacher, Bilingual/Bicultural. Description Provide quality instruction aligned to the state and national standards. Use a variety of assessment strategies diagnostic, formative and summative, to inform instructional decisions and increase student self-management of learning. Rigorous inquiry-based learning tasks engage students in deep content of the discipline as well as the habits of scholarship. May be required to work as a member of the campus STEM team to ensure quality integrated instruction across disciplines. Establishes developmentally appropriate instructional and behavioral expectations for students and communicate those to students and their families. Creates lessons and learning environments that are safe, respectful, and interesting. Plan lessons based on student data. Team well. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Have a working knowledge of and implement the Minnesota State Standards and the District Graduation Requirements; knowledge of the subject matter, classroom management techniques, current researched best practices and strategies, as well as students' learning styles and needs, both academic and affective. Teach students the required curricula using strategies that foster thinking, reasoning and problem solving. Collaborate with peers to develop, plan and implement best practices based on the needs/abilities of the students. Assess students' developmental, cognitive and social needs and provide developmentally appropriate instruction to meet those needs. Create lessons and learning environments that are safe, respectful and interesting as well as multicultural/gender and ability fair/developmentally appropriate. Collaborate and communicate regularly with families in making educational decisions and use family and community resources to support learning. Acquire knowledge of the goals of the Minneapolis Public School District Improvement Agenda and site/school goals. Work to support and achieve those goals. Assess own instructional effectiveness through the Professional Development Process (PDP). Participate in ongoing and regular staff, team and individual professional development. Education and Experience Guidelines Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university. Bilingual Spanish Required Prior successful experience student teaching or teaching in an urban, multicultural education setting. Demonstrated continued professional development through course work, research, peer collaboration and/or job-embedded staff development.