Teacher- 7th & 8th grade ELA

Teacher – 7th & 8th Grade ELA

St. Landry Parish School Board – Port Barre High, Port Barre, Louisiana

Job : 4928200

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Jan 09, 2025 12:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Title: Classroom Teacher:
Regular Education

Reports To: Principal

Job Goal: To plan and implement a program that creates an environment where students can learn and develop optimally.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Establish instructional outcomes by identifying exactly what students will be expected to learn, including rigor and expectations.
• Write instructional outcomes in the form of student learning targets.
• Determine instructional activities and the resources needed to complete them.
• Select instructional activities suitable for diverse learners.
• Plan for appropriate assessment methods to determine a level of student attainment.
• Differentiates for students of varied abilities.
• Create measurable outcomes central to the discipline and related to those in other disciplines.

• Establish and monitor routines and procedures for the smooth operation of the classroom and the efficient use of time.
• Use and manage instructional groups effectively.
• Complete non‑instructional tasks efficiently (e.g., lunch count, roll, administrative forms).
• Transition between activities and manage materials to maintain momentum and maximize instructional time.
• Teach students to employ efficient routines.

• Use questioning and discussion techniques to deepen student understanding.
• Use divergent and convergent questions that facilitate forming hypotheses, making connections, and challenging previously held views.
• Value student responses by responding to them and using their ideas as a foundation for discussion.
• Use high‑quality questions to encourage students to make connections among concepts or events previously perceived as unrelated, and arrive at new understandings of complex material.
• Pose questions for which they do not know the answer, eliciting student responses, opening lines of communication, and promoting thinking.
• Engage all students in important issues and use their own language to deepen and extend their understanding.
• Allow students to formulate questions used in class discussions.
• Teach students how to formulate high‑level questions.
• Promote learning through discussion.
• Use a range of techniques to ensure all students contribute to the discussion, enlisting student assistance to secure the outcome.

• Actively involve students in important and challenging content aligned with lesson objectives.
• Develop student understanding through engagement activities.
• Provide choice of work and assist students in making important contributions to the intellectual life of the class.
• Create activities and assignments that promote learning and are aligned to the goals of the lesson.
• Design activities that require student thinking that emphasizes depth over breadth, allowing for choice.
• Group students of similar background and skill.
• Use instructional materials that are developmentally appropriate to the students’ experience and the course content.
• Allow time for reflection and closure in all lessons.
• Facilitate instruction with students taking a major role in their learning.

• Recognize assessment as an integral part of instruction.
• Assess and monitor student learning by eliciting evidence of understanding using a variety of techniques.
• Monitor student understanding, offering timely and constructive feedback that guides students toward improvement.
• Circulate in the classroom to monitor student learning.
• Create questions or use techniques to ascertain the degree of understanding of every student.
• Provide students with clear criteria for learning and teach the skills necessary for them to check their progress and assume responsibility for their learning.
• Reflect on their craft and recognize the need for adjustments in instruction.
• Engage students in self‑ or peer…