Friendship Public Charter School

Dedicated Aide

Vacancy for School Year
2024-25
Type
Full-Time
Campus
Technology Preparatory Academy 9th - 12th

Company : Campus Specifics

Why Tech Prep?


Friendship Technology Preparatory is a college preparatory high school serving students in 9th – 12th grade.

Friendship Public Charter School has expanded its portfolio of schools with a new school model: Friendship Tech Prep Academy, where our secondary STEM program provides multiple opportunities for students to develop skills in science, technology, engineering and math through our robotics program, engineering classes, hands-on science curriculum, and the use of technology such as iPads and Smartboards. Read more about our academic program.

At Friendship Tech Prep students benefit from Advanced Placement and Honors courses, as well as Career Academy courses that provide pathways in technology, science, engineering, law, and communication arts. Tech Prep has a high graduation and college acceptance rates.

Friendship Tech Prep Academy is preparing students for higher education and the career of their choice by ensuring mastery of skills, knowledge, and tools needed to succeed in the 21st-century green global economy. Our green school focus ensures that each member of the Tech Prep community learns to make environmentally conscious decisions and gains the experience to design and develop green products. Upon completion of our new building in 2014, all students will attend a premier green facility and have the opportunity to experience green technology firsthand.

Overview

By completing an application, you have applied to be considered for anticipated vacancies in the 2024-2025 school year. Please note that our formal interview process will begin January 2024 contingent on our confirmed vacancies. 

 

Friendship Public Charter School operates a thriving network of college preparatory public charter schools. Headquartered in Washington, DC., Friendship serves over 4,800 students in preschool to grade 12 and guides a growing network of alumni to college completion annually.  Our mission is to prepare students to become ethical, literate, well-rounded, and self-sufficient citizens by providing a world-class education that motivates students to reach high academic standards, to enjoy learning, to achieve success, and to contribute actively to their communities. For 25 years, with the support and guidance of our exceptional faculty, our students have risen to the challenge with high graduation rates, college acceptances, and unparalleled success academically and socially.

 

Friendship is looking for responsible, confident, respectful, caring, committed, persistent, and patient professionals to join our family for the 2024-2025 school year starting in August 2024. Friendship Public Charter Schools is committed to the idea that each and every child can make it to and through college. If you share that belief, please apply. 

 

For more information about our schools please visit the following Social Media pages: YouTube, Linkedin, Facebook, Instagram & Twitter!


Please see the available salary scales: FPCS Compensation

Responsibilities

  • Supports the creation of environments and instructional opportunities that meet the needs of diverse learners
  • Provides individualized behavior and academic supports to improve children’s achievement of individual academic and behavioral goals in support of children’s IEP goals
  • Consistently implements behavioral and academic strategies outlined in children’s IEPs
  • Uses information and data from a variety of sources to understand children’s instructional needs and progress against IEP goals
  • Maintains records and documentation
  • Keeps other members of the classroom teaching team, appropriate service providers, and families informed of progress and challenges regarding the student
  • Ensures a safe, clean, attractive and engaging centers-based classroom that encourages both exploration and complex play for children with special needs
  • Fosters tolerance and a sense of community in classrooms, modeling and explicitly teaching acceptance and appreciation of others
  • Works with the teaching team to ensure the classroom contains sufficient supplies and materials for individualized instructional supports
  • Assist young children with personal hygiene, meals and other daily activities
  • Communicates the individual children’s goals and progress to families and also ways in which the family can support the child at home
  • Plans collaboratively and shares ideas and resources with instructional team
  • Collaborates with the teaching team to evaluate instructional effectiveness and to modify instructional approaches based on feedback
  • Actively participates in professional development opportunities provided and seeks out additional professional development
  • Maintains confidentiality and treats all information about children and their families in strictest confidence
  • Fulfills the standards of professionalism including appropriate dress, attendance and timeliness

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 1 year experience in youth development, child care or a school setting strongly preferred. Candidates should be prepared to explain how they will support sucess for children in school settings
  • Demonstrate knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructing reading, writing, and mathematics.  Must be energetic, reliable, flexible and integrity driven
  • Strong communication skills in order to ensure effective, positive interactions with their teaching team, staff, parents and children.
  • Solution focused and goal oriented
  • Strong communication skills required in order to effectively engage with teachers, staff, parents, and children
  • Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative work environment
  • Ability to maintain a patient and supportive relationship with assigned students required
  • High school diploma or General Education Development Certificate (GED) required

 

FPCS’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, veteran status, status as a special disabled veteran, or any other protected criteria as established by federal, state, or local laws.  This policy applies to recruitment and hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfer, layoff, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.  Employment decisions at FPCS are based solely upon relevant criteria, including an individual’s capabilities, qualifications, training, experience and suitability.

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