Middle School Math Teacher, Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired

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 may move around within other LSVI departments.

Responsibilities

• Teach rigorous lessons aligned to the Early Childhood Standards, Louisiana State Standards and the school’s internal curriculum to align all of your planning.
• Utilize curriculum assessments at the daily, weekly, and unit level to measure what your students learned.
• Create and leverage a classroom narrative along with the school system of positive behavior support and positive discipline to build strong and positive student identities.
• Ensure regular communication every month with parents, so they also know you are invested in their child.
• Teach to the diverse learning needs of every student you teach.
• 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.
• Commit to a minimum of one hour, two days per week of tutoring.

Requirements

• Louisiana teaching certificate, 2+ years of teaching experience, preferably working with students from similar backgrounds to LSVI students.
• Teacher of Visually Impaired certification preferred (3 years to achieve).
• Demonstrates Braille proficiency with passing score on the National Certification Unified English Braille (NCUEB).

Qualifications

• Deep belief that all students, regardless of their backgrounds and educational pasts, have the potential to succeed in college, career, and beyond, and that it is the responsibility of schools to help students realize that potential.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

• Ability to constantly find joy in the successes and challenges of our work.
• Positive attitude and strong work ethic.
• Personal initiative to better yourself and those around you.
• Drive to actively pursue excellence in everything you do, even when not given direct coaching.
• Restorative Approaches with every student when approaching corrections and consequences.
• Use praise and recognition to ensure your students know what you value.

Benefits

• Comprehensive services, including rigorous instruction, outreach services, extracurricular activities, assistive technology, transition, and orientation and mobility and Expanded Core training.
• College and career preparatory environment where students are expected to read, to respond, to analyze information, to reason and solve real-world problems, and to make sense of the world around them.
• Teachers are experts in the field and in the needs of our students, they engage in regular Professional Learning Communities, and they continuously grow in the profession and techniques.

Pay

This is a full time 9 months and 7.5 hours per day position. The pay details are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

This is a full time 9 months and 7.5 hours per day position. The schedule details are not specified in the job posting.