High School Teacher - American Sign Language

High School Teacher
- American Sign Language

• Position Type:
  High School Teaching/ American Sign Language
• Date Posted: 8/18/2026
• Location:
  
  Rosemount High School
• Closing Date: 10/16/2026

ASAP

October 16, 2026 – 4:00 p.m.

Teach one section of Introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) for three trimesters across the  school year. Provide quality instruction aligned to the state and national standards. Use a variety of assessment strategies - diagnostic, formative and summative, to inform instructional decisions and increase student self-management of learning. Engage students in fun and rigorous inquiry-based learning tasks that allow for deep learning of American Sign Language (ASL) as well as support the development of the habits of scholarship.

This position will be a member of the World Language Department.

• Demonstrated proficiency with American Sign Language
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university
• MN teaching license in any content area licensed for grades 9-12, an out state ASL licensure or four year degree in education

• A valid Minnesota American Sign Language teaching license; or proof of pending approved licensure
• Prior successful experience student teaching or teaching American Sign Language (ASL)
• Demonstrated continued professional development through course work, research, peer collaboration and/or job-embedded staff development.
• Demonstrated experience and proficiency working with a culturally, ethnically, racially and socioeconomically diverse school community is preferred.

• Have a working knowledge of and implement the Minnesota State Standards and the District Graduation Requirements; knowledge of the subject matter, classroom management techniques, current researched best practices and strategies, as well as students' learning styles and needs, both academic and affective.
• Teach students the required curricula using strategies that foster thinking, reasoning and problem solving.
• Collaborate with peers to develop, plan and implement best practices based on the needs/abilities of the students.
• Assess students' developmental, cognitive and social needs and provide developmentally appropriate instruction to meet those needs.
• Create lessons and learning environments that are safe, respectful and interesting as well as multicultural/gender and ability fair/developmentally appropriate.
• Collaborate and communicate regularly with families in making educational decisions and use family and community resources to support learning.
• Assess own instructional effectiveness through the Professional Development Process (PDP). Participate in ongoing and regular staff, team and individual professional development.

Building Principal

According to contractual agreement.

If benefit eligible, benefits are available to new employees effective the first day of active employment. Benefits include medical insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, long term disability insurance, sick-leave, state pension plan, tax-deferred retirement savings account, and flexible spending account. Some employee groups also receive vacation, holidays or personal leave. Benefit information is available at Employee Benefits
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