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HS Social Studies Teacher

Responsive Education Solutions · Lewisville, TX · 6 days ago
TrainingFull-time

Position Summary

Join us as we expand our virtual learning schooling options in Texas, building upon the success of our more than 70 brick and mortar campuses across the state of Texas. Our school provides hope for students by providing an innovative, personalized environment where students are academically successful and develop into lifelong learners. Our leadership team, our faculty, and our staff are high-performing, motivated individuals who are driven to provide exceptional programs for students in the state of Texas. Virtual teachers are content experts who instruct using only the best practices to ensure high levels of student success for our diverse student body. Our teachers persistently support and advocate for our students. Our teachers are reflective practitioners with professional demeanors. Our teachers demonstrate leadership outside of the classroom and are committed to changing the lives of students. Our teachers are among the best educators in the great state of Texas.

Qualifications

  • Completed a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university
  • Valid Texas Teacher Certification in your area of instruction
  • Experience with mastery-based or individualized learning approaches to student education (Preferred)
  • 1-3 years of teaching experience in a Texas Public School
  • 1-3 years of virtual teaching experience (Preferred)
  • Have two or more years of documented experience teaching online courses for students in Grades 3-12, AND successfully completed continuing professional development specific to online learning every three years (Preferred)

Additional Requirements

Please also upload an intro video and instruction recording, using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepvor6Z3Fzv3IIanHd37JkiGW-0W6XkTHq5F770oWKmXcBog/viewform?usp=sf_link

Responsibilities And Duties

  • Take ownership of the knowledge of students and commit to stretching students’ cognitive capacities
  • Use accomplished pedagogical expertise to execute lessons aligned to state standards while relating to and anticipating student needs through progress monitoring
  • Differentiate instruction to personalize learning and proactively minimize confusion or disengagement
  • Deliver instruction to generate further student inquiry to promote problem-solving, real-world application, and high order thinking
  • Establish an overwhelmingly positive class climate so regardless of what a student may be dealing with personally, your classroom is an emotional and social oasis
  • Display mutual respect with students while maintaining an emotionally safe and supportive learning environment
  • Maintain knowledge of the accommodations and modifications to be implemented in an IEP or 504 plan
  • Implement any accommodations and modifications through the development of appropriate assignments and assessments
  • Partner with special educators to determine the appropriate implementation of accommodations and modifications for specific content standards
  • Comply with the Texas Educator Code of Ethics, the ResponsiveEd Employee Handbook, the ResponsiveEd Student-Parent Handbook, administrative directives and other manuals and procedures documents
  • Serve as a test administrator during all state testing examination windows and district assessment testing as needed; which may require overnight travel

Equipment Used

  • General Office Equipment that includes a computer, copy machine, scanner, etc.
  • Variety of applications that include, but are not limited to: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, G-Mail, Study Island, eSped, Buzz, Google Drive Applications, Blackboard, Zoom Web Conferencing, USA Test Prep, etc.

Physical / Environmental Factors

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Professional Development

Virtual staff is required to attend in-person professional development prior to the school year starting. In-person trainings may also be required throughout the school year.

State Assessments

During the STAAR and TELPAS state assessment windows, including the summer STAAR session, virtual staff on the aforementioned weeks will proctor/administer student assessments at one of the district’s testing centers. Virtual staff may be assigned to proctor at a site near their residence or at a location that requires intrastate travel and possibly overnight lodging. (STAAR and TELPAS dates are contingent to change pending the direction of the TEA.)

Salary

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