SY 26​/27 Secondary ELA Teacher

Job Summary

Under the direction of the Building Principal, the Licensed Teacher represents a broad grouping of diverse instructional positions responsible for developing curriculum maps, unit plans, and lesson plans to present district curriculum in assigned instructional subjects. Responsible for delivering and instructing students via lesson plans, using instructional materials, and evaluating and assessing student progress against anticipated instructional outcomes and objectives. Certified educators actively engage in collaboration with fellow instructional professionals, administrators, parents, and other district staff members to address student needs, discuss issues, support district learning initiatives, and refine curriculum.

Under the direction of the Building Principal, the Licensed Teacher represents a broad grouping of diverse instructional positions responsible for developing curriculum maps, unit plans, and lesson plans to present district curriculum in assigned instructional subjects. Responsible for delivering and instructing students via lesson plans, using instructional materials, and evaluating and assessing student progress against anticipated instructional outcomes and objectives. Certified educators actively engage in collaboration with fellow instructional professionals, administrators, parents, and other district staff members to address student needs, discuss issues, support district learning initiatives, and refine curriculum.

• Maintains accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, school policy and administrative regulations.
• Maintains class records such as Individual Learning Education Plans, data, student cumulative folders, class charts, daily attendance, grades, and progress reports.
• Prepares curriculum guide and lesson plans according to AZ academic standards, using school district approved guidelines and covering grade appropriate units of study, daily objectives, special education accommodations and modifications, integration of formative assessments, instructional strategies, and provide appropriate assigned tasks that ensure outcomes and results that are clear, meaningful, and connected to the learning objective/unit.
• Implement Response to Intervention (RTI) according to program schedule as provided by Instructional Leadership.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate individual and group academic progress through the use of formative assessments, criterion-referenced tests, periodic standardized tests, oral tests, classroom data and other relevant evaluation methods.
• Provide instruction at a DOK 2 and/or higher, and instructional scaffolding using effective instructional strategies that make content accessible and meaningful for learners to ensure mastery of the content.
• Participates actively in professional development opportunities within and outside the school that directly address needs identified through classroom walk-through and assessment data.
• Provide assessments at the correct level of difficulty, aligned to standards-based objectives and actively engages learners in demonstrating knowledge and skills.
• Utilize data (formative, district, high stakes assessments) to drive instruction, articulate and document progress of students for monitoring and adjusting of instruction to meet the learning needs of students.
• Actively participates in and contributes meaningfully to required professional learning activities with grade level or subject level area colleagues, such as PLCs and PODs, giving and receiving ongoing feedback on instruction, examining student work, analyzing evidence of instructional effectiveness, and share responsibility for student learning.
• Actively and regularly involve families in goal setting and expectations for individual student learning, student development, and achieving goals.
• Contact Parents on regular basis regarding behavioral / discipline issues within the classroom.
• Contact parents regarding student positive behavior.
• Turn in lesson plans as requested by principal.
• Maintain gradebook in NASIS by submitting at least two - three grades per class on a weekly basis.
• Seeks opportunities and…