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Job ID: 5479387

Position Criteria:

+ Valid Iowa teaching license with appropriate endorsements required - must be able to teach 6th & 7th grade Math

+ Ability to teach Algebra for high school credit preferred

+ Previous teaching experience preferred

Performance Responsibilities

Personal Performance Criteria

+ Demonstrates positive interpersonal relationships and works cooperatively with students, parents and staff

+ Contributes to creating a positive work environment

+ Demonstrates integrity and respects confidentiality

+ Takes advantage of professional growth opportunities related to his/her specific job

+ Demonstrates ability to grasp and adjust to new and changing situations

+ Demonstrates initiative and ability to work without close supervision

+ Demonstrates an understanding and acceptance of diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, special needs and religious groups

+ Respects differing points of view

+ Uses discretion in handling confidential information and situations

+ Actively supports expectations of student behavior outside of the classroom during the school day

+ Demonstrates a positive attitude and manages stress in a constructive manner

Professional Performance Criteria – Instructional Process

+ Teaching to local curriculum standards

+ Curriculum is presented from whole to part with an emphasis on what students should know and be able to do

+ Communicates learning goals to students and parents

+ Incorporates, on a regular basis, activities for students which require applications of learning

+ Creates a classroom environment that promotes learning

+ Establishes fair and appropriate classroom rules

+ Corrects inappropriate behavior in an appropriate and timely manner

+ Reinforces positive behaviors and is consistent in expectations concerning student behaviors

+ Establishes and maintains rapport with students

+ Demonstrates appropriate instructional preparation

+ Uses knowledge of students to design educational experiences

+ Has materials prepared prior to the beginning of class

+ Lessons align with the district standards and assessments

+ Designs lessons that are appropriate to age level and student interest

+ Lesson design is logical and provides for a clearly understood flow of learning

+ Designs educational experiences that utilize district provided technologies

+ Uses instructional time effectively

+ Both group and individual instruction are used on a regular basis with limited use of large group lecture

+ Employs a variety of instructional techniques and strategies including multi-sensory approaches, appropriate questioning and modelling, role playing, self-teaching and activity-based learning

+ Utilizes a variety of instructional resources outside of the textbook

+ Classroom technology is an integrated part of the teaching and learning process

+ Modifies lesson plans and instructional techniques as required by student learning needs

+ Instructional techniques provide all students the opportunity to learn

+ Instruction is free of cultural, religious, ethnic or gender bias

+ Responds in a positive and constructive manner to student questions

+ Provides students with opportunities for success

+ Models and promotes honesty, respect for people and property, responsibility for personal and group actions, personal integrity and the value of hard work

+ Uses assessment strategies to design effective instruction and intervention within a multi-tiered system of supports

+ Assessments directly relate to core curricular concepts and are in integral part of teaching and learning

+ Assessment of student progress includes both traditional and alternative assessment measures

+ Assessment is interwoven with learning and occurs on an ongoing basis. Assessment is not solely an end product

Professional Responsibilities

+ Demonstrates a commitment to professional growth

+ Keeps current with appropriate teaching content and instructional techniques and strategies (e.g. participation in professional organizations, workshops, conferences, including the development of technology skills)

+ Applies knowledge gained through professional growth to the classroom

+ Contributes and participates in a positive manner to building and district professional growth opportunities

+ Works collaboratively to select and implement building and district goals

+ Remains informed on building and district policies and works cooperatively toward their implementation

+ Participates, when appropriate, in curriculum development and building/district assignments

+ Meets responsibilities beyond the school day related to school functions

+ Maintains a professional appearance appropriate to job responsibilities

+ Assumes leadership roles (committee participation, department chairs, curriculum review, etc.)

Terms of Employment: 194-day contract