High School English Language Arts Teacher

About the role

The Louisiana Special Schools are experiencing a critical shortage of certified teachers, school counselors, interpreters and educators of the Deaf or hard of hearing and Visually Impaired. This position is currently located in the High School but may move around within other LSD departments.

Responsibilities

• Plan rigorous lessons aligned to the college and career ready bar.
  • Utilize curriculum assessments at the daily, weekly, and unit level to measure what your students learned.
  • Create ideal student responses or mastery responses to clearly define the bar of rigor your students must reach.
  • Test overall mastery at the unit level that are aligned to the end of year assessment for your course.
  • Ensure lessons demonstrate deep knowledge and passion for your content.
• Create a classroom culture where 100% of your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking at every moment throughout your lesson.
  • Leverage a classroom narrative along with the school system of positive behavior support and positive discipline to build strong and positive student identities.
  • Praise and recognize students to ensure they know what you value.
  • Use corrections and consequences to teach expected behavior while holding students accountable to high standards.
  • Build relationships with students that let them know you care about them as individuals.
  • Leverage relationships to push students to the highest heights academically and as people.
  • Use restorative approaches with every student when approaching corrections and consequences.
  • Work hard to keep students in class and only send a child out when they need time to step back, re-center, or reflect on something that needs improvement behaviorally.
  • Incorporate best practices received in trainings on social and emotional learning for students and model the use of these strategies.
  • Check in with students monthly to support positive student relationships and to identify potential concerns.
  • Ensure regular communication every month with parents so they also know you are invested in their child.
• Execute lessons with fidelity and at the highest level, ensuring 100% of your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking at every moment.
  • Bring passion, joy, and energy to your execution.
  • Gather data throughout your lesson to ensure students at all levels in your classroom are mastering the material.
  • Use Checks for Understanding to pivot your lesson in the moment.
  • Ensure your lessons drive towards both mastery of the Exit Ticket for that day and mastery in the larger themes of your unit: The Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions.
  • Reflect on your data daily to know what your students learned and what they didn’t learn. Make a plan to fill in those gaps the following day and retest later on.
• Teach to the diverse learning needs of every student you teach.
  • Take action on and responsibility for every student in your classroom regardless of incoming achievement level or diverse learning needs.
  • Plan and execute strong Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions within the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework to ensure every child can master the material in your class every day.
  • Track data to assess the efficacy of your interventions. If interventions aren’t working, find new interventions to test out to ensure all students are growing as fast as possible towards their goals.
  • Commit to a minimum of one hour, two days per week of tutoring.

Requirements

• Must have a Bachelor's degree.
• Louisiana teaching certificate, 2+ years of teaching experience, preferably working with students from similar backgrounds to LSD students.
• Certification in deaf education preferred.
• Sign Language Proficiency-Advanced level, preferred (2 years to achieve).
• Strong knowledge in content area of choice, demonstrated through lesson planning, execution, and intervention with all students.
• Strong desire to participate in all school activities, including extracurricular activities, clubs, sports, school health and wellness activities, and other activities and events that promote school identity and culture.

Qualifications

• Effective rating measured using the Compass observation and goal setting cycle and tools, which includes measures of setting instructional outcomes, managing classroom procedures, questioning and discussion techniques, engaging students in learning, using assessment in instruction, and measurable student learning targets.
• Desire to grow as a teacher and face the challenges that come with deep reflection and direct feedback on your classroom practices.
• Positive attitude and strong work ethic.
• Ability to constantly find joy in the successes and challenges of our work.
• Ability to demonstrate that joy towards students, families, and teammates.
• Personal initiative to better yourself and those around you.
• Drive to actively pursue excellence in everything you do, even when not given direct coaching.
• Desire to work at a college and career prep school rebuilding education for deaf and/or hard of hearing students.

Skills

• Strong content knowledge in English Language Arts.
• Ability to adapt lessons to meet diverse learning needs.
• Experience with Response to Intervention (RtI) frameworks.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage a classroom effectively and maintain a positive learning environment.

Benefits

Details on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $50,000 - $60,000 annually, depending on qualifications and experience.

Schedule

This is a full time 9 month and 7.5 hours per day position.