Remote Teacher: Engaging Lessons & Data-Driven Job Warren Michigan USA,Education / Teaching

Position: Remote Teacher: Engaging Lessons & Data-Driven Growth

Teacher

Summary/Objective

Uplift Michigan Online School must provide an excellent education to all our students consistent with the mission, vision, and goals of the school and with the core values of Summit Management Consulting. Your primary goal is to ensure that each of your students is learning subject matter identified in the State standards and the Uplift Michigan Online School curriculum.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Consistently plan and deliver lessons that are varied, interesting, engaging, and enjoyable for your students.

Facilitate learning by creating lesson plans in harmony with students learning styles.

Assign homework only in accordance with Uplift Michigan Online School’s homework philosophy and in alignment with Professional Learning Community (PLC) team guidelines.

Offer assignments and assessments matching state standards for the associated content, providing frequent and timely feedback to your students.

Consistently review and analyze student performance data to develop plans to meet the needs of all students.

Maintain timely, complete, and accurate student records (i.e., Skyward and CAT).

Assist in the development of curriculum that is aligned to the State standards, referring to these approved guidelines as often as necessary as you design and execute daily plans for teaching your students.

Assist in the development and implementation of any educational plans such as IEP’s, 504 plans and behavior plans.

Ensure that your classroom is conducive to learning – one that is safe and nurturing for all students. Provide consistency and balance for your students.

Ensure that parents are frequently advised as to their child’s performance and progress.

Communicated via all means available and necessary including phone, text, email, Skyward, face-to-face conferences, written correspondence or other means.
Frequent communication will assist parents in playing a key role in their child’s education. This will prevent surprises with progress reports and report card results.
Provide parents with encouraging news as well as items of concern.
Return parent e-mail and voice mail messages within 24 hours.
Conduct research, attend conferences, meetings, and pursue continuing education to ensure you are serving to model being a life-long learner and to ensure you are providing effective instruction. Keeping your teaching certification up to date is your professional responsibility.
Perform other duties and tasks as directed by School Administration.

General Expectations

You are directly accountable to the Administrator. As a member of the Uplift Michigan Online School team, you are also expected to communicate and coordinate with the school office personnel and collaborate with your fellow teachers. As an Uplift Michigan Online School employee, you will be expected to:

Conduct yourself in a professional manner – demonstrating competence in your area of responsibilities and extending respect and courtesy to coworkers. This position is one that demands an exceptional attendance routine, including consistently arriving early to set the tone for the day along with staying after to plan or support students.
Adhere to all Uplift Michigan Online School employee policies as well as expectations as outlined in the handbooks. We will supply a hard copy to you upon request.
Conduct yourself in accordance with the mission, vision, and goals of Uplift Michigan Online School, as well as the core values of Summit Management. This will foster mutually beneficial relationships and promote a spirit of excellence in our endeavors.

Evaluation

All employees are evaluated based on the performance of their primary responsibilities and their adherence to the general expectations outlined in the job descriptions. It is also expected that each employee does their part to maintain a spirit of team unity and cooperation. Each employee can expect to be observed and provided with immediate feedback frequently throughout the schoolyear with a year-end evaluation.

Supervisory Responsibilities

There are no supervisory responsibilities with this…