Middle School English Language Arts Teacher, LSD; Louisiana School Deaf

LOUISIANA SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Louisiana is a State as a Model Employer for People with Disabilities.

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.

The LSD is seeking applicants for a Middle School English Language Arts Teacher, LSD (Louisiana School for the Deaf).

This position is currently located in the Middle and High School but is anticipated to change to Middle School.

Position #41117

This is a full time 9 month and 7.5 hours per day position
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To be filled for the  school year.

• General Philosophy
  • All of our teachers are leaders with unique opportunities to create pathways for success for every student and other teachers in the years to come. This is a rare opportunity for teachers who are looking to increase their responsibility and impact within a school and across our state.
• Planning for College and Career Readiness
  • Plan rigorous lessons aligned to the college and career ready bar. Use the Louisiana State Standards, the ACT College Readiness Standards, and the school’s internal curriculum to align all planning.
  • Utilize curriculum assessments at the daily, weekly, and unit level to measure what your students learned:
    Daily Exit Tickets (formative) to know if you were successful in teaching that day;
    Weekly or Unit Assessments (summative) to assess students’ learning. For each assessment, create your ideal student response or mastery response to clearly define the bar of rigor your students must reach.
  • Utilize curriculum summative assessments to test overall mastery at the unit level that are aligned to the end-of-year assessment for your course.
  • Know your content deeply. Ensure lessons demonstrate your knowledge and passion for your content. Lessons must drive mastery and investment in your content from every student you teach.
• Culture That Builds Strong and Positive Student Identities and Investment
  • Ensure your students know that you believe in them as well as know what you expect from them and why.
  • Create a classroom culture where your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking throughout your lesson.
  • 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. Use praise and recognition to ensure your students know what you value. Use corrections and consequences to teach expected behavior while holding students accountable to high standards.
  • Build relationships with students that let them know you care about them as individuals. Leverage those relationships to push your students to the highest heights academically and as people.
  • Use Restorative Approaches with every student when approaching corrections and consequences. Work hard to keep your students in class and only send a child out when he or she needs time to step back, re-center, or reflect on something that needs improvement behaviorally.
  • Incorporate best practices received in trainings on social and emotional learning for students and model the use of these strategies.
  • Check in with students monthly to support positive student relationships and to identify potential concerns. For example, attendance, grades, discipline and other concerns.
  • Ensure regular communication every month with families so they also know you are invested in their child.
• Lesson Execution Using Data Throughout the Lesson Cycle
  • Execute the lessons you’ve planned with fidelity and at the highest level, ensuring 100% of your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking at every moment.
  • Bring passion, joy, and energy to your execution. Ensure students reflect the level of passion, joy and energy you feel as a result of your execution.
  • Gather data throughout your lesson to ensure students at all levels in your classroom are mastering the material. Use these Checks for Understanding to pivot your lesson in the moment.
  • Ensure your lessons drive towards both mastery of the Exit Ticket for that day and mastery in the larger themes of your unit:
    The Enduring…