Bilingual DLI Grade 6 Science Teacher - FTE - Sherman - SY

Sherman Middle – Middle School Operations

• Minimum Annual Compensation: $52,154 (25‑26 TE Salary Schedule)
• Length of
  
  Contract:
  
  192 days
• Employment Type: Exempt
• School Year: 2026‑2027
• Location: Madison Metropolitan School District, Wisconsin

• Use standards (CCSS, SELS, Language) to identify common learning targets that represent what all students should know, do and understand as a result of the instruction.
• Use knowledge of students’ background, interest, style, culture, language, individual needs, and assessment data to inform planning.
• Develop daily and weekly plans to support student growth toward mastery of standards.
• Develop common year‑long/course plans that identify the essential questions and resources to support student learning.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
• Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations to build student engagement, collaboration, and independence with complex tasks.
• Adapting teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Provide daily opportunities for students to describe their reasoning, share explanations, make conjectures, justify conclusions, argue from evidence, and negotiate meaning.
• Define and plan formative assessments to show evidence of learning.
• Use multiple ways to check for student understanding and clarify, reteach and/or make adjustments to instruction based on information gathered.
• Provide students with meaningful feedback that reinforces effort, provides recognition and promotes student involvement and progress in the learning process.
• Provide opportunities for teacher–to‑student, student‑to‑student and student‑to‑teacher feedback both orally and written.
• Analyze data and adjust instruction based on student achievement, observation, and teacher practice data.
• Establishing rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible.
• Meeting with parents/guardians to discuss their student's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
• Collaborating with all staff in support of student learning (e.g., team planning and co‑teaching).

• Serving as a bilingual classroom teacher as part of the District’s bilingual and English Language Learner (EL) programs.
• Assisting in the development of curriculum for bilingual and ESL instruction in the District.
• Providing classroom instruction to students in bilingual classrooms.
• Providing additional support and leadership to the bilingual and ESL education programs as requested.

• High Expectations For Every Student
• Quality Instructional Practice
• Cultural Competence
• Data Proficiency
• Team Collaboration
• Student & Family Engagement
• Resilience & Results Orientation
• Self‑Awareness & Growth Mindset

• Bachelor’s degree. Official transcripts are required for formal employment.
• Native‑like fluency in Hmong/Spanish and English. For Bilingual Resource Teacher and Dual Language Immersion positions, a Spanish/Hmong language proficiency assessment is required.
• NEED:
  Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) teaching license in:
  • High School
    • Core content (Math, Science, English, Language Arts, or Social Studies)
    • Bilingual/Bi‑Cultural
    • ESL (preferred)
  • Middle School
    • Regular Education Grades 1‑8 or Elementary/Middle Education or Core content (Math, Science, English, Language Arts, or Social Studies)
    • Bilingual/Bi‑Cultural
    • ESL (preferred)
  • Elementary School
    • Regular Education inclusive of elementary grade levels (e.g., PK‑3, K‑6, 1‑8, EC‑MA, etc.)
    • Bilingual/Bi‑Cultural
    • ESL (preferred)
• Applications are considered on a rolling basis. MMSD will consider applicants who are fully licensed before considering applicants who are not yet licensed.
• If you do not already have an active Wisconsin teaching license, you must obtain and maintain the necessary license(s) for the position. An application must be on file within 30 days of starting your employment with MMSD. Failure to do so will result in your contract being voided.
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