Virtual Arkansas Online ELA Adjunct Teacher - Concurrent Credit; Part-Time

Virtual Arkansas Online Adjunct Teacher - Concurrent Credit (Part-Time)

The Virtual Arkansas Concurrent English online teacher is responsible for following the established curriculum and providing instruction to students in a virtual learning environment. This position supports a year-long concurrent sequence, with Composition I taught during the fall semester and Composition II taught during the spring semester. The teacher leverages the capabilities of the digital tools, the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), the Student Information System (SIS), and the course itself to effectively deliver lessons, assess student progress and learning, provide personalized feedback, and identify and intervene with students who are demonstrating difficulty in mastering the standards, learning objectives, and goals of the course.

The Virtual Arkansas teacher must be adept at engaging students remotely while fostering a positive learning environment and adapting to the unique challenges of digital education.

Virtual Arkansas teacher duties and responsibilities are described below and fall into three primary categories:
Instructional/Traditional, Curriculum, and Assessment.

• Instructional/Traditional
  
  Duties and Responsibilities:
• Effectively utilize the Virtual Arkansas technology systems, programs, software, and platforms to perform duties and deliver instruction
• Plan, prepare and design digital lessons and assignments
• Learn and utilize effective synchronous and asynchronous student engagement strategies
• Implement intervention and enrichment strategies based on assessment data and mastery of standards
• Utilize effective and efficient student feedback tools and strategies
• Monitor student progress and respond appropriately to the needs of the students
• Monitor discussion boards and behavior of students
• Implement effective/efficient communication strategies with students and local digital learning facilitators
• Attend and participate in required professional development, department-level collaborative teams, intervention meetings, and other required meetings
• Maintain availability for students throughout each school week
• Deliver and respond to communications, including emails and messages, in a timely manner
• Collaborate with all stakeholders (e.g. students, parents, colleagues, local school facilitators, supervisors, etc.) for the purpose of establishing and maintaining effective professional communication and positive relationships
• Implement ELL, IEP, and 504 goals and accommodations into lessons and assessments
• Maintain a professional home office
• Complete other duties as assigned consistent with online, digital teaching
• Curriculum/Content
  
  Duties and Responsibilities:
• Monitor the digital curriculum and make recommendations for continuous curricular improvement through the established curriculum change/support process
• Assist design team members with implementation of requested curriculum changes
• Make curriculum change recommendations based on standard revisions or misalignments between standards, content, and assessments
• Create and enhance online content, including the creation of focus and micro-topic videos
• Assessment
  
  Duties and Responsibilities:
• Design assessment items that are aligned to the Arkansas Curriculum Standards (or other learning outcomes) and that reflect appropriate DOK levels
• Design assessment items that prepare students for success on high-stakes assessments
• Align assessment items to learning outcomes
• Monitor assessment data and student mastery of standards to inform student learning, instruction, curriculum gaps, and assessment validity

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines and prioritize tasks
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times, stressful environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, and customer service skills
• Proficiency in using digital tools and platforms
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to monitor, analyze, and interpret student data to then make informed decisions related to student…