Secondary Math Teacher

About the role

Teacher About Uplift Michigan Online School is a student-centered virtual learning community dedicated to providing high-quality, engaging, and equitable online education for learners across Michigan. Our mission is to empower students through innovative instruction, strong relationships, and personalized academic support. We are seeking a passionate and motivated Math Teacher to join our growing online instructional team.

Responsibilities

• Consistently plan and deliver lessons that are varied, interesting, engaging, and enjoyable for your students.
• Facilitate learning by creating lesson plans in harmony with students' learning styles.
• Assign homework only in accordance with Uplift Michigan Online School's homework philosophy and in alignment with Professional Learning Community (PLC) team guidelines.
• Offer assignments and assessments matching state standards for the associated content, providing frequent and timely feedback to your students.
• Consistently review and analyze student performance data to develop plans to meet the needs of all students.
• Maintain timely, complete, and accurate student records (i.e., Skyward and CAT).
• Aid in the development of curriculum that is aligned to the State standards, referring to these approved guidelines as often as necessary as you design and execute daily plans for teaching your students.
• Aid in the development and implementation of any educational plans such as IEP’s, 504 plans and behavior plans.
• Ensure that your classroom is conducive to learning – one that is safe and nurturing for all students. Provide consistency and balance for your students.
• Ensure that parents are frequently advised as to their child’s performance and progress.
• Communicate via all means available and necessary including phone, text, email, Skyward, face-to-face conferences, written correspondence or other means.
• Frequent communication will assist parents in playing a key role in their child’s education. This will prevent surprises with progress reports and report card results.
• Provide parents with encouraging news as well as items of concern.
• Return parent e-mail and voice mail messages within 24 hours.
• Conduct research, attend conferences, meetings, and pursue continuing education to ensure you are serving to model being a life-long learner and to ensure you are providing effective instruction.
• Keep your teaching certification up to date is your professional responsibility.
• Perform other duties and tasks as directed by School Administration.

General Expectations

• You are directly accountable to the administrator.
• As a member of the Uplift Michigan Online School team, you are also expected to communicate and coordinate with the school office personnel and collaborate with your fellow teachers.
• As an Uplift Michigan Online School employee, you will be expected to conduct yourself in a professional manner – demonstrating competence in your area of responsibilities and extending respect and courtesy to coworkers.
• This position is one that demands an exceptional attendance routine, including consistently arriving early to set the tone for the day along with staying after to plan or support students.
• Adhere to all Uplift Michigan Online School employee policies as well as expectations as outlined in the handbooks.
• You will be expected to conduct yourself in accordance with the mission, vision, and goals of Uplift Michigan Online School, as well as the core values of Summit Management.

Evaluation

• All employees are evaluated based on the performance of their primary responsibilities and their adherence to the general expectations outlined in the job descriptions.
• It is also expected that each employee does their part to maintain a spirit of team unity and cooperation.
• Each employee can expect to be observed and provided with immediate feedback frequently throughout the school year with a year-end evaluation.

Supervisory Responsibilities

There are no supervisory responsibilities with this position.

Competencies

• Leadership
• Time management
• Positive communication skills; able to relate to students, parents, and staff
• Behavior modification skills
• Ability to work autonomously
• Strong organizational skills
• Classroom management
• Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email skills
• Positive reinforcement skills
• Punctuality, exemplary attendance
• Knowledge of and ability to follow federal and state safety regulations
• Understanding and ability to incorporate student learning styles
• Mastery of assigned subject of instruction

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional home office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
• This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.