Middle School Teacher ELA or Science Immeadiately

Job Description

Position type:
Full-time, Exempt, 10-Month

Reporting & Collaboration

• Direct Manager:
  Principal

• Direct Reports:
  None

• Key Collaborators:
  Assistant Principal, Instructional Coach, Teachers, and Regional Support

Inputs:
What will I be doing in my day-to-day work?

Grade-Level Rigor & Access

• Plan and deliver instruction where all students engage in grade-level standards, texts, and rigorous tasks daily

• Internalize curriculum to ensure alignment to standards, pacing, and high-quality outcomes

• Design and execute tasks that require students to analyze, justify, and apply learning

• Provide scaffolds that increase access without lowering rigor, including modeling, guided practice, and strategic supports

• Anticipate misconceptions and plan targeted supports to ensure all students can access grade-level content

What will I be evaluated on?

Instruction consistently ensures that all students engage in grade-level standards, tasks, and content aligned to curriculum and pacing, with scaffolds that maintain rigor. Student work demonstrates analysis, justification, and application, resulting in increased access and success with grade-level learning.

Student Engagement

• Design lessons where students do the majority of the thinking, talking, reading, writing, and problem-solving

• Facilitate structured academic discourse that requires students to explain, justify, and build on ideas using academic language

• Use questioning and task design to promote analysis, reasoning, and cognitive lift

• Create opportunities for students to make connections, defend thinking, and engage in meaningful dialogue

• Ensure engagement reflects cognitive work, not just participation or compliance

Students consistently do the cognitive work of the lesson, engaging in meaningful discourse, reasoning, writing, and problem-solving. Engagement is driven by rigorous thinking, with students independently explaining, justifying, and building on ideas using academic language.

Culture of Learning

• Establish and maintain a classroom environment grounded in high expectations, strong routines, and productive struggle

• Implement systems that maximize instructional time and ensure students remain focused, accountable, and independent

• Create a safe and structured environment where students take academic risks and persist through challenging work

• Reinforce consistent expectations for behavior and learning aligned to school-wide systems

• Build strong relationships with students and families to support both academic and cultural outcomes

The classroom reflects high expectations, strong routines, and maximized instructional time, resulting in a focused and productive learning environment. Students demonstrate independence, persistence, and productive struggle, taking academic risks within a safe and structured culture.

Assessment for Learning

• Embed frequent checks for understanding into daily instruction to assess student thinking in real time

• Analyze student responses and adjust instruction immediately to address misconceptions and advance learning

• Provide clear, timely, and actionable feedback that enables students to improve their work

• Monitor student progress toward learning goals and ensure students understand success criteria

• Implement data-driven cycles, including reteach and intervention, to accelerate student achievement

Instruction is continuously informed by frequent checks for understanding, with real-time adjustments based on student thinking. Students receive actionable feedback, engage in revision, and demonstrate measurable progress toward learning goals through effective data-driven instruction cycles.

Outcomes & Accountability:

Professional Practice & Contribution

• Consistent alignment to the KIPP St. Louis Instructional Framework in planning, instruction, and…