Certficated Middle School Teacher

The Teacher will create a flexible program and environment which promotes learning and personal growth; establish effecve rapport with pupils and good relaonships with parents and other staff members; movate pupils to develop the skills, atudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundaon for connued academic growth.

Essenal Dues and Responsibilies

Student Progress
Uses knowledge of curriculum and the standards of student performance to plan

appropriate long and short-term goals.
Uses student progress data to design classroom instrucon and instruconal intervenon. Covers appropriate content as determined by the curriculum and provides opportunies for students to parcipate in a variety of learning acvies.
Designs and implements appropriate instruconal intervenons for students slow to achieve

mastery or for students who have already achieved mastery.
Evaluates pupil’s academic performance and social growth; prepares progress reports and

communicates with parents and pupils on the individual pupil’s progress.

Instruconal Methodologies
Observes school policies and procedures and adopted administrave regulaons pertaining to

instrucon.
Plans daily lessons to achieve idenfied lesson objecves with primary focus on student

engagement and student success.
Has a wide range of instruconal and assessment strategies and uses them appropriately. Uses appropriate quesoning strategies to elicit basic facts and concepts, to encourage the exchange of ideas or informaon among students, and to smulate higher-level thinking. Extends beyond the basic subject maer to bridge and reinforce knowledge from a variety of interrelated sources.

Learning Environment
Is aware and sensive at all mes as to what is happening in the classroom.
Demonstrates a genuine respect for all students.
Creates opportunies for student collaboraon, decision-making, team building, leadership, and

other transferable skills.
Adheres to consistent discipline and character development program to maintain school

standards of pupil behavior in and out of the classroom. Maintains a clean, safe, funconal and aracve room.

Professional Development
Plans and pursues a program of personal professional growth; parcipates in appropriate

school, county and statewide in-service educaon acvies.
Acvely parcipates in the evaluaon process.
Parcipates in required staff development and commiee work.
Plans and coordinates the work of aides, teacher assistants, and other Para-professionals,

including parent volunteers.

Professional Conduct
Maintains universally accepted standards of conduct for teachers.
Maintains fair and equitable relaonships with students.
Remains forthright, clear, honest and respecul in communicaons with parents and

recognizes their importance as partners in the educaonal process.
Acvely contributes as a member of a grade level, departmental or faculty team and is

supporve of other staff members and their efforts.

Qualificaons

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilies
Knowledge of child cognive development and various learning styles Knowledge of subject mater, including California Common Core Standards and subject specific frameworks Knowledge of assessments
Ability and willingness to implement the Readers and Writers Workshop Model

Minimum Educaonal Level
Bachelors degree
Valid California Mulple Subject Teaching Credenal required English Language Learner Authorizaon required
NCLB Highly Qualified required

Required Documents
References (on original leerhead, signed and recently dated) from all employers covering the

last (3) years.
CA credenal with an English Learner (EL) authorizaon
Basic Skills Requirements (i.e. CBEST or Approved Out-of-State Basics Skills Exam) Verificaon of Highly Qualified/No Child Le Behind (HQ/NCLB) compliance (i.e. Subject Maer Exam/Subject Maer Waiver/NCLB leer)
Official transcripts from all colleges/universies aended
Resume