Middle School ELA Teacher

Highline Academywww.highlineacademy.org Middle School Teacher
Job Description MISSION We exist to foster a diverse community of youths and adults striving together for academic, personal, and civic excellence.

VISION Creating inclusive excellence in public education.

Assignment:
Middle School English Language Arts Teacher Reporting directly to Highline’s campus principal, our teachers are the heart of our organization – the ones who make the mission come alive for our students. We expect our teachers to be caring about the whole child, great lesson planners, strong and nurturing at classroom management and excellent collaborators with teammates and families. We look for people with good communication skills, dedication to do everything it takes to make a difference for each child, and a growth mindset.

Position

Schedule:

Teachers are paid year round on a salary. Their student contact days (177) and their professional development days and parent conference days adds up to a 185 day work year. However, the work teachers do outside those days planning, reflecting and pursuing professional growth is also an important part of being an excellent teacher. Teachers are expected to be on campus ready for students by 7:30 am and to stay until 4:00 each day school is in session, and to 4:30 on Fridays when we have early release days for students followed by teacher P.D. or planning meetings.

There are two weeks of professional development every summer before school begins which is part of the accounted professional development days.

At Highline, our middle school teachers are content and grade level specific, teaching their content classes to their grade level. Our students have a 5 academic block schedule, with an additional differentiated block called W.I.N. and an elective block. Our middle school teachers teach their content 4 out of the 5 blocks, a W.I.N. period, and a rotating elective.

REPORTS TO:

Campus Principal

DEPARTMENT:
Middle School Faculty

SUPERVISES:
None

• Create a Positive Classroom Culture and Climate
• Practice Effective Classroom Management
• Plan and implement Masterful Content Delivery
• Practice High-Impact Instructional Moves
• Demonstrate Essential Knowledge of Students and Use of Data
• Demonstrate Effective Collaboration and Engagement with students and colleagues
• Demonstrate thoughtful reflection, learning and development

All Highline ELA teachers are also expected to demonstrate the Highline Internal Commitments for Professional Practice.

• We will take responsibility for student learning by valuing diversity, needs, learning styles and through shared ownership.
• We will commit to being clear and purposeful in our objectives and instruction while continuing to reflect and revise learning strategies by frequently monitoring student assessment data and ensuring that it is used as a tool for learning.
• We accept and embrace diversity within our community of faculty, students, and parent/guardians by valuing each other for who and where we all are in life as learners and as people, and we commit to providing a safe place for all to succeed.
• We will be direct, intentional, timely, and graceful in giving and receiving communication without judgment and for positive and proactive purposes.
• We will create an environment that empowers faculty, students and parent/guardians to be active participants in student success.
• We will create a focused and sustainable adult community by focusing on what is most essential to student success and staying focused on Highline’s goal.
• We will consistently model and enforce Highline’s academic and behavioral expectations.

Middle School ELA Teacher Responsibilities:
Math teachers collaborate with their grade level peers and other content‑area teachers across the middle school grades to provide a rigorous and supportive curriculum for every student in their grade level. Teachers are expected to use data to monitor student learning, make decisions about grouping, and to determine next steps in lesson planning. Teachers will also be expected to meet in data teams and reflect upon student progress and support other teachers in interpreting their data.

Middle school ELA teachers are expected…