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Expectations
Expectations of the NIS Faculty & Staff
- Commit to a language rich program
- Collaborate with colleagues to integrate the curriculum at all
levels
- Practice a student-centered classroom philosophy
- Utilize technology as a learning tool in the classroom
- Pursue cross-grade activities and interactions
- Develop higher order thinking skills in the students
- Utilize team teaching
- Become involved in coaching sports or supervising other
co-curricular activities
- Be available to help students after school until 4:00 pm
- Attend weekly meetings scheduled on Wednesdays
- Become involved in school-community events
- Undertake regular professional development
Calendar and Work-day of the NIS Faculty & Staff
- Year begins in mid-August, and ends mid to late June
- Approximately 180 student contact days, 8-10 professional days
- School week is Monday-Friday, 8:10am-3:45pm (although arrival and
departure times vary with general faculty obligations)
- Preschool to Grade 5 are self-contained classrooms with an average
of 20 students; secondary teachers generally have 5 classes with 4-5
preps.
- Contracts for instructional faculty and staff are from August 1 to
July 31 the following year.
- New teachers come in under a 2 year contract. After successful
completion of the initial contract, teachers are employed under yearly
contracts.
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