Grade 7 Language Arts Teacher - Hamilton - 0.1 FTE - 26-27 SY

About the role

The Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is seeking highly motivated and energetic applicants for a position involving the use of standards to identify common learning targets, developing daily and weekly plans, and providing daily opportunities for students to describe their reasoning.

Responsibilities

• Use standards (CCSS, SELS, Language) to identify common learning targets that represent what all students should know, do and understand as a result of the instruction.
• Develop daily and weekly plans to support student growth towards mastery of standards.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Provide daily opportunities for students to describe their reasoning, share explanations, make conjectures, justify conclusions, argue from evidence, and negotiate meaning.
• Define and plan formative assessments to show evidence of learning.
• Check for student understanding and clarify, reteach and/or make adjustments to instruction based on information gathered.
• Provide students with meaningful feedback that reinforces effort, provides recognition and promotes student involvement and progress in the learning process.
• Meet with parents/guardians to discuss their student's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
• Collaborate with peers to reflect on student achievement and teacher practice data to continuously plan and improve instruction.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree. Official transcripts are required for formal employment. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) teaching license in Regular Education and/or Secondary Core Content Area. Applications are considered on a rolling basis. MMSD will consider applicants who are fully licensed before considering applicants who are not yet licensed.

Qualifications

• High Expectations For Every Student: Demonstrate through actions and words that every student can achieve high standards. Share a commitment to excellence and equity for all students. Hold a clear mission and values orientation aligned with Madison's vision.
• Quality Instructional Practice: Plan and execute rigorous, engaging units and lessons, including meaningful in-class and out-of-class assignments, and ensure student mastery of content. Provide necessary scaffolds, interventions, and extensions to meet a range of learning needs and support an inclusive learning environment.
• Cultural Competence: Understand and articulate the systems and beliefs that may lead to inequitable outcomes for students of color and adapt instruction to meet the needs of each student. Make links between content and student experiences, perspectives, and personal goals.
• Data Proficiency: Use data beyond standardized assessments to diagnose student learning needs and differentiate instruction in the classroom.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborate with peers to reflect on student achievement and teacher practice data to continuously plan and improve instruction.
• Student & Family Engagement: Take initiative to build relationships with students. Understand unique family characteristics and find ways to engage all families as full partners in their children's education.
• Resilience & Results Orientation: Find challenges exciting and persist in the face of challenges. Reflect on strengths and growth areas regularly as well as seek mentors to improve.

Skills

Knowledge of students’ background, interest, style, culture, language, individual needs, and assessment data to inform planning. Ability to work under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to environmental factors is minimal and poses little to no risk of injury. Ability to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally and may involve walking, sitting, stooping or reaching. Manual dexterity is necessary for completing general tasks while operating office equipment. Ability to perform work in a variety of indoor and outdoor environments throughout the year, including in inclement weather, spaces without air conditioning, and areas where temperatures may be uncomfortable or fluctuate rapidly.

Benefits

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Pay

Minimum Annual Compensation: $52,154 (25-26 TE Salary Schedule)

Schedule

Length of Contract: 192 days