A teaching license is required, along with 2 or more experience teaching elementary grades.

**Instructional Leader:**

* **Curriculum Design:** Collaborate with colleagues to design age-appropriate inquiry-based units that align with state standards. These units will spark student questions and guide them through investigations and projects.
* **Lesson Planning:** Develop engaging lessons that encourage critical thinking, problem-solving, and independent research. Lessons will likely involve hands-on activities, discussions, and opportunities for students to present their findings.
* **Differentiation:** Tailor instruction to meet the individual needs and learning styles of all students in the class. This might involve providing open-ended tasks, tiered assignments, or allowing students to choose their areas of inquiry within a broader theme.

**Learning Facilitator:**

* **Guiding Inquiry:** Help students formulate their own questions, conduct research, analyze information, and draw conclusions. This may involve teaching research skills, using technology for inquiry, and facilitating discussions.
* **Assessment:** Develop assessments that go beyond memorization and focus on students' critical thinking, research, and communication skills. This could involve presentations, portfolios, student self-reflections, and observations during investigations.
* **Technology Integration:** Incorporate technology effectively to support inquiry and research. This might involve using online resources, data collection tools, or presentation software.

**Classroom Manager**

* **Safe and Positive Environment:** Create a stimulating and supportive classroom environment where students feel comfortable taking risks, asking questions, and collaborating with peers. This involves establishing clear expectations and routines, and fostering a sense of community.
* **Social-Emotional Learning:** Integrate social-emotional learning into the curriculum, helping students develop self-awareness, empathy, and collaboration skills. This might involve activities that focus on growth mindset, conflict resolution, and communication.

**Communicator**

* **Student-Parent Communication:** Maintain regular communication with parents about student progress, curriculum content, and inquiry projects. This could involve newsletters, parent-teacher conferences, or online learning platforms.
* **Collaboration:** Collaborate with colleagues, specialists, and support staff to ensure students receive a well-rounded education and to share best practices in inquiry-based learning.


Overall, a grade 3 homeroom teacher in an inquiry-driven school acts as a guide on students' journeys of discovery, fostering their natural curiosity and helping them develop the skills to become lifelong learners.

We are looking for adventurous, fun, and creative teachers to join us!

Manglares Discovery School is a private microschool in its sixth year, set at a secluded, natural jungle campus. Our students range from age 3 to age 13 and the school serves the nearby beach community of Playa Venao. The area offers much potential in terms of inquiry extensions. For example, the campus is home to a waterfall; we get almost daily visits from three species of monkeys and other birds and animals. The local community has various interesting cultural traditions.

We are now looking for a lead teacher to bring an inquiry-driven spirit into the Grade 3 classroom.

Our teachers bring diverse perspectives and love engaging with the children. The candidate(s) must embrace positive discipline, be open-minded and willing to adapt and incorporate various learning tools, pay attention to the students’ learning needs & interests, lead discussions, inspire collaboration and reflection, model a love of learning. The candidate(s) must have experience being in a classroom and display familiarity with teaching phonics and grade-level math.

If you believe in developing the whole child, love working with children, believe that life is an adventure, love nature, believe in the hidden potential of children, and want to try working at a growing school in a tropical location, this position might be a great fit for you!

The position requires relocation to rural Panama. Playa Venao is often regarded the surfing capital of Panama with consistent year-round waves. The candidate(s) must be willing to adjust to a new environment & culture (a slower pace of life) and enjoy nature (or learn to embrace it)

The class size ranges from 8 to 14 children. Our school is focused on developing the whole child; academic as well as social and emotional well being.

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