Secondary Electives Teacher

Job Description

Salary: The salary for this position is $42,000 along with opportunity to earn an annual bonus.

Start Date: ASAP.

Residency Requirement: Alabama.

Certificates and Licenses: Alabama 6-12 Electives Teaching Certificate.

Position: K12 Online Teacher at Alabama Destinations Career Academy (ALDCA). The Teacher is a highly qualified state certified educator responsible for delivering specific course content in an online environment. Teachers provide instruction, support, and guidance, manage learning process, focus on students’ individual needs, monitor progress through Stride K12’s LMS, actively work closely with students and parents/learning coaches to advance learning towards established goals.

Typically work from home but must travel occasionally for school functions such as state testing.

Essential Functions:

• Provides rich and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences for students.
• Commitment to personalizing learning for all students.
• Demonstrates a belief in all students’ ability to succeed and meet high expectations.
• Differentiates instruction based on student level of mastery.
• Augments course content according to prescribed policies and procedures using appropriate asynchronous and synchronous tools under guidance from principal and coach.
• Maintains grade book ensuring student academic integrity, makes student placement and promotion decisions, and alerts administrators to concerns about student performance and progress.
• Prepares students for high stakes standardized tests.
• Understands that a primary responsibility is to establish and maintain positive rapport with families and regularly communicates with and responds to students and learning coaches/parents in a timely manner.
• Supports learning coaches/parents with student curricular and instructional issues, as well as basic troubleshooting in a virtual classroom environment that is in line with academy policies and procedures.
• Travels as required (on average once per month and/or approximately 20% of the time) for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and as required by school.

Required

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree AND
• Active state teaching license AND
• Ability to clear required background check.

Desired

Qualifications:

• Experience working with proposed age group.
• Experience supporting adults and children in the use of technology.
• Experience teaching in an online (virtual) and/or in a brick-and-mortar environment.
• Experience with online learning platforms.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions.
• Receptive to receiving coaching regularly with administrators and teacher trainers.
• Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint.
• Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies and teaching platforms.
• Ability to maintain teacher certification/professional development hours and fluency in K12 systems, programs and curriculum.

Work Environment: This position is virtual. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Type: Regular full-time.

Equal Opportunity Employer and EEO Statement: Stride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. Applicants will not be discriminated against because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer. Employers may not alter the at-will nature of employment unless a signed written statement exists.

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