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Teaching Opportunities at MATCH
MATCH is currently seeking teachers to join our staff for the 2012-2013 year. We seek teachers with a 'no-excuses' style approach to teaching (think Doug Lemov and Jamie Escalante), and teachers who understand and relish the challenge of turning around kids who arrive with low academic skills. Currently, we are looking for candidates for 2+ years of full time teaching experience and a commitment of 3 years.
If you are interested in getting involved as an elementary school teacher, Please see our website at MATCH Community Day School.
Leadership Opportunities at MATCH
MATCH Middle School is currently seeking a Co-Leader/Director of Instruction. If you are interested in applying, please send your resume and letter of interest to Mr. Min Ji. A job description can be found here.
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Positions with MATCH Teacher Residency
MATCH Teacher Residency is a one-year program that trains recent college graduates for a very specific teaching environment -- math and English teaching jobs in No Excuses schools like KIPP, Achievement First, Uncommon, etc.
We're based in Boston. We have three key needs, all which mostly involve 1-to-1 teacher coaching.
We pay pretty well. Our vibe combines bad-assness (really serious about our work, pull no punches), warmth (we care about our peeps), and occasional irreverence (i.e., we make fun of each other). Knowledge of Lemov Taxonomy, Lee Canter real time coaching, and pop-culture and/or basketball a plus.
Director of No Excuses Early Elementary Teacher Training (new position, Boston).
This job is a good fit for someone who:
- Has been, at least for a few years, a No Excuses teacher (whether an “island of excellence” in a traditional school, or in a No Excuses charter school).
- Has the chops to be principal or dean of a top charter, but doesn’t want that job for whatever reason (or doesn’t want to continue it). Yet also doesn’t want to leave for policy world — would like to be in the trenches. Possibly someone who is currently a TFA Program Director. Possibly someone who already does some amount of teacher coaching in a No Excuses school.
- Very firm persona. Needs to absolutely push trainees to be 100% rookie teachers with strong presence.
- Obsessed with the notion of jaw-droppingly good rookie teachers. Our program is just 2 cohorts old. We’re not there yet (though we have turned out some gems; we also have produced some so-so’s, and a couple turkeys). You gotta share this obsession/intellectual interest.
- Likes the idea of "permission-based" training. If someone wants our stuff at a level that is at least 9 out of 10, great. If not, let's not work together. We don't want our coaches to be coaxers. Their/your time is valuable (and expensive), so we'd like coaching to be more like sports, theater, music lessons, pilot lessons -- Do this, now try it again, now again. From a coach's point of view, it means we eliminate the need to work with reluctant folks, by simply respecting their opinion that they'd like something different from what we do.
For more info and a more formal job description, just send a short email to Mike Goldstein.
Friday/Saturday "No Excuses" Teacher Coaches
Type of Person
Skilled teachers from No Excuses charter schools (Kipp et al), or No Excuses type teachers in traditional high-poverty schools.
Someone fascinated by the little things -- the nuance of how to run a silent Do-Now that really drives the first 4 minutes of a class, or why cold-calling generally beats hand-raising.
Also, pragmatic revolutionary. You get stuff DONE. You run (or have run) a REALLY tight classroom. But you're not constrained by the existing models of teacher training. You're open to pursuing a different way.
Where
MATCH Charter School in Boston. Existing high school; our middle school opened this year.
Background
Our program will prepare workaholic 22-year-olds to succeed in high-poverty middle and high schools. Some will end up at No Excuses charter schools; others will seek to be solo Jaime Escalante types in (possibly chaotic) traditional schools. Starts November 2008.
Interested?
Email Orin Gutlerner.
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