Middle Grades English Language Arts /Social Studies Teacher

About the Role

Provides services to assist students in achieving a better understanding of specific subject material and improving academic capabilities in designated areas. Collaborates with the school principal and staff members to assess students' needs and how best to address them.

Responsibilities

• Teaches students academic, social, and motor skills in public schools
• Prepares course objectives and outline for course of study following curriculum guidelines or requirements of state and school
• Lectures, demonstrates, and uses audiovisual teaching aids and best practices to present subject matter to class
• Prepares, administers, and corrects tests, and records results
• Assigns lessons, corrects papers, and hears oral presentations
• Teaches behavioral expectations
• Develops a behavioral plan and maintains order in classroom, on playground and throughout the campus
• Counsels students when adjustment and academic problems arise
• Discusses students' academic and behavioral attitudes and achievements with parents
• Keeps attendance and grade records as required by school
• May coordinate class field trips
• May teach combined or combination or inclusion classes
• May specialize by subject taught, such as math, science, or social studies, music, etc.
• Engages in on-going professional development
• Works cooperatively with colleagues and in the school's learning community
• Performs other duties as required

Requirements

• State certification in Middle Grades Language Arts (license code 78180) and designated as "highly qualified"

Physical Requirements

• Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, calculators, etc.
• Must be physically able to operate a motor vehicle
• Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body
• Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree

Skills and Abilities

• Masterful knowledge of curriculum and best practices
• Highly developed presentation skills
• Knowledge of effective staff development models that lead to the successful development of effective teachers
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Considerable human relations and human development skills
• Demonstrated leadership ability
• Good technical skills with technology and presentation tools
• Ability to use common office machines and popular computer-driven word processing, spreadsheet, and file maintenance programs
• Ability to maintain complete and accurate records and statistics and to develop meaningful reports from that information
• Ability to plan and evaluate strategies for new teacher development
• Ability to exercise considerable tact and courtesy in frequent contact with the public
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments
• Ability to work with adult learners
• Requires the ability to compare and/or judge characteristics of data, people, or things
• Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information
• Requires the ability to read and prepare a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, and strategic plans
• Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Requires the ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, follow oral and written instructions, and communicate effectively in standard English
• Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas, add, subtract, multiply, divide, use decimals, percentages, algebra, descriptive statistics, and statistical inference
• Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape
• Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment
• Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools
• Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions, adapt to performing under stress, and handle emergency situations
• Requires the ability to talk and hear, including expressing ideas by spoken words and perceiving the nature of sounds by ear

Schedule

Full-time for ten (10) months

Pay

Salary based on state and local salary schedules