Middle School English Teacher

Job Title:

Middle School English Teacher

Start Date:

School year,

Hours:

Monday through Friday 8:00am-4:45pm SPecific arribval and departure times will be reviewed by the hiring manager.

Duration: 11 months

Compensation: Codman Academy Charter Public School follows a compensation scale based on years of direct experience. 1 year experience starts at $60,000, with 16 years direct experience starting at $110,444 annually.

Description:

The English Teacher is responsible for planning, organizing and implementing an appropriate instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourage students to meet and exceed standards for the assigned grade level/courses.

• Knowledge
  -Demonstrates subject area expertise and a cutting-edge grasp of child development and how students learn.
• Standards
  -Develops a well‑honed game plan for the year that is tightly aligned with state standards and assessments.
• Units
  -Plans all expeditions backwards, aligned with high standards, state assessments, and all Bloom’s levels; documents and shares all lessons with supervisor at a minimum of two (2) weeks in advance.
• Assessments
  -Plans diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to closely monitor student learning.
• Anticipation
  -Anticipates students’ misconceptions and confusions and develops multiple strategies to overcome them.
• Lessons
  -Designs lessons with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and expedition outcomes.
• Engagement
  -Designs highly relevant lessons that will motivate all students and engage them in active learning
• Materials
  - Designs lessons that use an effective mix of high-quality, multicultural learning materials and technology.
• Differentiation
  -Designs lessons that break down complex tasks and address all learning needs, styles, and interests.
• Environment
  -Artfully uses room arrangement, materials, and displays to maximize student learning of all material, focusing on learning targets and student work.

• Expectations
  - Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing high expectations.
• Relationships
  - Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all students and builds strong relationships.
• Respect
  - Wins all students’ respect and creates a climate in which disruption of learning is unthinkable.
• Social-emotional
  - Implements a program that successfully develops positive interactions and social-emotional skills.
• Routines
  - Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that students maintain them throughout the year.
• Responsibility
  - Successfully develops students’ self‑discipline, self‑confidence, and a sense of responsibility.
• Repertoire
  - Has a highly effective discipline repertoire and can capture and hold students’ attention any time.
• Efficiency
  - Skillfully uses coherence, momentum, and transitions so that every minute of the classroom time produces learning.
• Prevention
  - Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self‑assured and nips virtually all discipline problems in the bud.
• Incentives
  - Gets students to buy into a highly effective system of incentives linked to intrinsic rewards.

• Expectations
  - Exudes high expectations and determination and convinces all students that they will master the material.
• Mindset
  - Actively inculcates a “growth” mindset: take risks, learn from mistakes, through effective effort you can and will achieve at high levels.
• Goals
  - Shows students exactly what’s expected by posting learning targets, essential questions, rubrics, and exemplars.
• Connections
  - Hooks all students’ interest and makes connections into prior knowledge, experience, and reading.
• Clarity
  - Always presents material clearly and explicitly, with well‑chosen examples and vivid and appropriate language.
• Repertoire
  - Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all students.
• Engagement
  - Engages all students in focused work in which they are active learners and problem solvers.
• Differentiation
  - Successfully reaches all students by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding.
• Nimbleness
  - Deftly adapts lessons and units to exploit…