Certified Secondary Special Education Teacher - LHS

Certified Secondary Special Education Teacher - LHS Certified Secondary Special Education Teacher - LHS

St. James Parish Schools Lutcher High School - Lutcher, Louisiana Open in Google Maps

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Starting Date: Immediately

ST. JAMES PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS

JOB DESCRIPTION

TITLE:

TEACHER

REPORTS TO:

Principal

FLSA STATUS:
Exempt

TERMS of EMPLOYMENT: 9 month/182 Days

OVERVIEW OF POSITION : To plan, organize and implement an appropriate instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourages students to develop and fulfill their academic potential. The Teacher is responsible for growth in student learning.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1.0 SETTING INSTRUCTIONAL OUTCOMES

• The teacher designs instructional outcomes that represent rigorous and important learning in the discipline.

  Attributes:

  • Outcomes represent high expectations and rigor.
  • Outcomes are related to “big ideas” of the discipline.

• The teacher designs instructional outcomes that are clear, written in the form of student learning, and suggest viable methods of assessment.

  Attribute:

  • Outcomes are written in terms of what students will learn rather than do.

• The teacher designs outcomes that reflect several different types of learning an opportunities for coordination.

  Attribute:

  • Outcomes represent a range of outcomes: factual, conceptual understanding, reasoning, social, management, and communication.
  • 1.4 The teacher designs outcomes that take into account the varying needs of groups of students.
  • Outcomes are suitable to groups of students in the class, differentiated where necessary.

2.0 MANAGING CLASSROOM PROCEDURES

• The teacher maximizes instructional time.

  Attribute:

  • The students are productively engaged during small group work.

• The teacher manages learner behavior in instructional groups, transitions, and/or handling of materials and supplies consistently.

  Attribute:

  • Transitions between large and small group activities are smooth.

• The teacher establishes classroom routines to be followed by students with minimal guidance and prompting.

  Attributes:

  • Routines for distribution and collection of materials and supplies work efficiently.
  • Classroom routines function smoothly.

3.0 USING QUESTIONING /PROMPTS AND DISCUSSION

• The teacher poses questions to students designed to promote student thinking and understanding.

  Attribute:

  • Teacher uses open-ended questions, inviting students to think and/or have multiple possible answers.

• The teacher creates a genuine discussion among students, providing adequate time for students to respond, and stepping aside when appropriate.

  Attributes:

  • The teacher makes effective use of wait time.
  • Discussions enable students to talk to one another, without ongoing mediation by the teacher.

• The teacher engages most students in the discussion, employing a range of strategies to ensure that most students are heard.

  Attributes:

  • The teacher builds on student responses to question effectively.
  • The teacher calls on most students, even those who don’t initially volunteer.
  • Many students actively engage in the discussion.

4.0 ENGAGING STUDENTS IN LEARNING

• The teacher provides learning tasks and activities that are aligned with the instructional outcomes and are designed to challenge student thinking, resulting in active intellectual engagement by most students with important and challenging content, and with teacher scaffolding to support that engagement.

  Attributes:

  • Most students are intellectually engaged in the lesson.
  • Learning tasks have multiple correct responses or approaches and/or demand higher-order thinking.
  • Students have some choice in how they complete…