Junior High English Language Arts Teacher

Junior High English Language Arts Teacher 1.0 FTE

Position Type: Jr/Sr High School Teaching

Location: Dakota High School

The Teacher understands the central concepts, methods of inquiry, and structures of disciplines and creates learning experiences that make the content meaningful to all students. To this end, the Teacher provides an educational atmosphere conducive to learning where students have the opportunity to fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and/or psychological growth. The Teacher is responsible for utilizing current teaching methods in order to organize and implement an approved instructional program that will result in students achieving academic success in accordance with applicable law, District requirements and policies;

documenting teaching and student progress/activities/outcomes; addressing specific educational needs of students; providing timely feedback to students, parents and administration regarding student progress, expectations, goals, etc.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. In addition to the requirements listed below, regular attendance is an essential function of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

• Content Knowledge
• Evaluates teaching resources and curriculum materials for their comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usefulness for representing particular ideas and concepts.
• Uses differing viewpoints, theories, “ways of knowing” and methods of inquiry in teaching subject matter concepts.
• Engages students in generating and testing knowledge according to the process of inquiry and standards of evidence of the discipline.
• Designs learning experiences to promote student skills in the use of technologies appropriate to the discipline.
• Anticipates and adjusts for common misunderstandings of the discipline(s) that impede learning.
• Uses a variety of explanations and multiple representations of concepts that capture key ideas to help students develop conceptual understanding.
• Facilitates learning experiences that make connections to other content areas and to life and career experiences.
• Designs learning experiences and utilizes adaptive devices/technology to provide access to general curricular content to individuals with disabilities.
• Human Development and Learning
• Analyzes individual and group performance in order to design instruction that meets learners’ current needs in the cognitive, social, emotional, ethical, and physical domains at the appropriate level of development.
• Stimulates student reflection on prior knowledge and links new ideas to already familiar ideas and experiences.
• Introduces concepts and principles at different levels of complexity so that they are meaningful to students at varying levels of development and to students with diverse learning needs.
• Diversity a .Facilitates a learning community in which individual differences are respected.
• Makes appropriate provisions (in terms of time and circumstances for work, tasks assigned, communication, and response modes) for individual students who have particular learning differences or needs.
• Uses information about students’ families, cultures, and communities as a basis for connecting instruction to students’ experiences.
• Uses cultural diversity and individual student experiences to enrich instruction.
• Uses a wide range of instructional strategies and technologies to meet and enhance diverse student needs.
• Identifies and designs instruction appropriate to students’ stages of development, learning styles, strengths and needs.
• Identifies when and how to develop and implement strategies and interventions within the classroom and how to access appropriate services or resources to assist students with exceptional learning needs.
• Demonstrates positive regard for individual students and their families regardless of culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and varying…