Teacher, 8th Grade Language Arts

• Position Type: Middle School Teaching/ Language Arts
• Date Posted: 2/11/2026
• Location: Avon Middle School West
• Date Available: 07/27/2026
• Closing Date: Until Filled

Primary

Job Functions:

The primary function of the teacher is to plan, guide, and evaluate the learning process of the students for whom they are responsible.

Salary: Range $54,000-$98,400

FLSA Status: Exempt

Assigned Workday Calendar: 185 Days

Job Status: Full-Time

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Teaching positions are eligible for medical and dental insurance as well as supplemental benefits such as vision, life insurance, disability, etc. Provided long-term disability, TRF, 401(a) Retirement.

Paid Time Off: 9 sick days / 4 personal days

Holiday Pay: Not Eligible

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Certification: Appropriate Indiana Certification
• Experience: None required
• Other: Ability to maintain a positive relationship with pupils, staff, parents, and the community

• Monitors and evaluates student outcomes.
• Able to work effectively and communicate with a wide range of students, staff and administration.
• Able to work effectively with the staff and administration.
• Proficient and competent demonstration of reading and writing capabilities.
• Strong human relations skills, including professional tact, diplomacy, and presentation.
• Multi-tasking ability and strong organizational skills.
• Ability to utilize 21st century technological skills to enhance teaching and learning.
• Uses data effectively to guide and to differentiate to meet the individual needs of students.
• Demonstrates a wide variety of objective-based lesson preparations that are aligned to state content standards.
• Matches instructional strategies, as well as meaningful relevant activities and assignments, to meet lesson objectives.
• Designs formative assessments that measure progress towards mastery and inform instruction.
• Maintains and analyzes accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, district policy and administrative procedures.
• Develops student understanding and mastery of lesson objectives.
• Demonstrates content knowledge and delivers instructional material that is factually correct, clear, concise, well organized while adjusting for student needs.
• Provides multiple ways of engaging students with content aligned to the lesson objectives by utilizing a variety of learning modalities and intelligences.
• Uses a variety of methods to check for understanding that are successful in capturing the teacher's knowledge of the students' understanding.
• Develops a higher level of understanding through rigorous instruction and student engagement.
• Maximizes instructional time.
• Creates a classroom culture of respect, collaboration, and student safety.
• Establishes a classroom environment that promotes high expectations for the academic success of all students.
• Contributes ideas and expertise to further the schools' mission and initiatives.
• Dedicates time efficiently when needed for helping students and peers outside of class.
• Seeks out and participates in regular opportunities to collaborate with and to learn from peers.
• Welcomes constructive feedback while seeking ways to implement new practices, instructional techniques, and teacher knowledge.
• Displays commitment to the education of all his/her students while attempting to remedy obstacles around student achievement.
• Engages in all forms of parent outreach required by the school in order to promote student learning, participation, and achievement.
• Be an example of exemplary adult behavior for students.
• Projects a genuine care and concern for all students.
• Any other duties assigned by principal/designee.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand and use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance, color…