Middle School English Teacher

Planning and Preparation for Learning:

• Plan lessons and units by following the curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade-level teachers.
• Support in developing curriculum documentation that reflects horizontal and vertical alignment.
• Demonstrate planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar engagement, and anticipate scholars’ misconceptions and confusion.
• Demonstrate a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning.
• Demonstrate content knowledge in the areas of reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and social-emotional learning.

Classroom Management:

• Be direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations.
• Show warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and build strong relationships.
• Successfully inculcate class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year.
• Encourage all scholars to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy.
• Be alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured to nip virtually all discipline problems in the bud.

Delivery of Instruction:

• Orchestrate highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars.

Professional Responsibilities:

• Design each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes.
• Collaborate with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and review scholarly work.
• Seek out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implement them well.
• Engage all scholars in focused work in which they are active learners and problem-solvers.
• Successfully reach all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding.

Collaboration:

• Work with colleagues to analyze data for placements and reflect on what worked and what did not.
• Seek and accept feedback from colleagues to improve student growth.
• Capitalize on each other’s strengths and work on areas of growth.

Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up:

• Frequently check for understanding, adjusting teaching, re-teaching, and following up on data.
• Analyze and reflect on collected data to continuously ensure lesson and unit plans meet scholar needs.
• Give scholars a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front and use the information to fine-tune instruction.
• Help scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance.
• Assist scholars in developing as self-assessors and self-adjusters.

Family and Community Outreach:

• Communicate respectfully with parents and be sensitive to different families’ cultures and values.
• Show parents a genuine interest and belief in each child’s ability to reach standards.
• Provide parents with clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year.
• Promptly inform parents of behavior and learning problems, and also update them on good news.
• Update parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggest ways to support learning at home.
• Respond promptly to parents' concerns and make them feel welcome in the school.

Other Responsibilities:

• Engage with the community in after-school activities.
• Maintain open communication with the community.
• Complete assigned supervision duties.
• Participate in After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week).

Specific qualifications required for this role:

• Teaching Credential/License.
• Other Certification.