High School Social Studies Teacher

General Education High focuses on K12-powered virtual high schools with 9-12 programs offering core, comprehensive, credit recovery, honors, and Advanced Placement online courses and a wide variety of electives.

About the role

Responsible for relationship building with families, students, and learning coaches to ensure that all students are progressing successfully through the program. The High School Social Studies Teacher is a highly qualified, state certified educator responsible for delivering specific course content in an online environment. Teachers provide instruction, support, and guidance, manage the learning process, and focus on students’ individual needs. Teachers monitor student progress through Stride K12’s learning management system and actively work closely with students and parents/learning coaches to advance each student’s learning toward established goals.

Teachers typically work from home but must travel occasionally throughout the year to various school functions, such as state testing or as otherwise required by the school.

This is a full-time position requiring the ability to work independently, typically 40+ hours per week, and maintain a professional home office without distraction during the workday (typically 9-5 or 8-4, or as defined by the school).

Responsibilities

• Provides rich and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences for students.
• Commitment to personalizing learning for all students.
• Demonstrates a belief in all students’ ability to succeed and meet high expectations.
• Differentiates instruction based on student level of mastery.
• Augments course content according to prescribed policies and procedures using appropriate asynchronous and synchronous tools under guidance from principal and coach.
• Maintains grade book ensuring student academic integrity, makes student placement and promotion decisions, and alerts administrators to concerns about student performance and progress.
• Prepares students for high stakes standardized tests.
• Establishes and maintains positive rapport with families and regularly communicates with and responds to students and learning coaches/parents in a timely manner.
• Supports learning coaches/parents with student curricular and instructional issues, as well as basic troubleshooting in a virtual classroom environment that is in line with academy policies and procedures.
• Travels as required (on average once per month and/or approximately 20% of the time) for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and as required by school.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Active Oklahoma High School Social Studies Teaching Certification.
• Must reside in Oklahoma.
• Ability to clear required background check.

Qualifications

• 0-1 year of related professional experience.
• Experience working with proposed age group (desired).
• Experience supporting adults and children in the use of technology (desired).
• Experience teaching in an online (virtual) and/or in a brick-and-mortar environment (desired).
• Experience with online learning platforms (desired).
• Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions (desired).
• Receptive to receiving coaching regularly with administrators and teacher trainers (desired).
• Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes (desired).
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint (desired).
• Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies and teaching platforms (desired).
• Ability to maintain teacher certification/professional development hours and fluency in K12 systems, programs, and curriculum (desired).