Middle School Social Studies Teacher

Role Overview

MS teachers are responsible for instructing students in middle school from grades 6 8. Creates lesson plans, administers praise and constructive criticism, instructs students on math subjects, and creates a well rounded, comprehensive instructional program.

Job Responsibilities Planning and Preparation for Learning

• Plan lessons and units by following the AISJ curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade level teachers
• Supports in developing curriculum documentation that reflect horizontal and vertical alignment
• Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars' misconceptions and confusions
• Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning
• Demonstrates content knowledge in the areas of reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and social emotional learning.

Classroom Management

• Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations.
• Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and builds strong relationships.
• Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year.
• Gets all scholars to be self disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy
• (follow up) Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self assured and nips virtually all discipline problems in the bud.

Delivery of Instruction

• Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars.

Professional Responsibilities

• Designs each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes.
• Collaborates with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and look at scholar work.
• Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well.
• Gets all scholars highly involved in focused work in which they are active learners and problem solvers.
• Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Collaboration

• Working with colleagues to analyze data for placements and reflect on work (what worked and what did not work)
• Seeking and accepting feedback from colleagues to improve student growth
• Capitalizing on each other's strengths and working with each other's areas of growth

Monitoring Assessment & Follow up

• Frequently checks for understanding, adjusting teaching, re teaching and following up from the data
• Analyzes and reflects on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs
• Gives scholars a well constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine tune instruction.
• Has scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance.
• Help scholars develop as self assessors and self adjusters

Family and Community Outreach

• Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families' cultures and values.
• Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child's ability to reach standards.
• Gives parents clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year.
• Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates parents on good news.
• Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support learning at home.
• Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.

Other Responsibilities

• Engage with community in after school activities
• Engage with community in open communication
• Supervision duties will beassigned
• After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week)