Creative Writing Teacher

Job Purpose

To join a team of people with the mission: Relentless Commitment to Student Greatness in School and in Life.

If you love inspiring and motivating young learners and want to put students first in education, CSUSA is the right place for you. We deliver on our promise of Strong Minds, Good Hearts through an education model that gives every student the opportunity for success.

How You Will Impact Education

• Presents subject matter to students to maximize learning opportunity.
• Reviews student records in order to develop a foundation of understanding regarding each student's abilities and needs.
• Strives to maximize the educational achievement of each student.
• Demonstrate a variety / range of student learning modalities in each lesson.
• Frequently utilizes diagnostic assessment of student learning.
• Maintains accurate and complete student records.
• Frequently evaluates student strengths and weaknesses, provides appropriate activities to address student needs and generates progress reports as required.
• Refers students with suspected learning problems to appropriate support personnel.
• Assigns lessons, corrects student work product, and reviews oral presentations.
• Captures class field trips.
• Prepares students for state required achievement assessments.

Create a Classroom Environment Conducive to Learning

• Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of students.
• Ensures classroom is clean, safe and includes student generated work on display as appropriate.
• Implements all relevant policies governing student conduct.
• Develops reasonable rules of classroom/playground behavior in accordance with CSUSA policy and guidelines and maintains order in the classroom in a fair and consistent manner.

Instructs and Plans Lessons

• Develops lesson plans consistent with established guidelines and goals.
• Plans individual and / group learning activities designed to meet instructional objective and student's needs.
• Prepares for classes assigned and shows evidence of preparation upon request of supervisory personnel.
• Participates with other staff members in curriculum planning during designated meetings.
• Incorporates into planning all diagnostic information as required in the student's Individual Education Plan (IEP).
• Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect supplies, equipment, materials, and facilities needed to implement effectively the planned instructional program.

Communicate and Collaborate

• Strives to establish cooperative relations and makes reasonable effort to communicate with parents/guardians when appropriate.
• Communicates clearly, consistently, and positively with parents via all appropriate mediums.
• Cooperates with members of the administration and other staff.
• Maintains confidentiality about students.
• Attends parent communication activities.
• Participates in extracurricular activities as required.