Middle School ELA

English Language Arts Teacher

Core responsibilities of an English Language Arts Teacher include planning, developing, and compiling a comprehensive language-based educational program for students and delivering quality instruction to support their overall development. Teachers are required to attend meetings and training sessions after hours, as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct instruction in whole-class, small-group, and individual settings.
• Utilizes data-driven instruction and educational frameworks to ensure delivery of standards-driven instruction to all students.
• Completes assessments, grading, planning, and conferences with students, staff, and families within appropriate timelines.
• Utilizes oversight by team lead, elite teachers, special education director, school counselor, and other subcontracted professional staff/outside agencies to identify and understand strategies for supporting and instructing students with exceptional needs.
• Ensures appropriate classroom implementation of BIPs, FBAs, IEPs, and 504 programs.
• Complete any additional reporting as requested by the Special Education Director or counselor.
• Develops and maintains regular family communication and community partnerships.
• Completes reports and follow-up documentation as required by administration.
• Keeps updated and documented cumulative folders as ongoing case files for all current students.
• Contributes to a strong school education team that serves on school and community committees; seeks participation and involvement with direction for ongoing local operations.
• Acts as a professional advisor to the team lead/elite teacher on all aspects of school classroom activities.
• Maintains ongoing, consistent, and supportive communication for the classroom as noted in the school's frameworks.
• Assumes all roles are delegated for various school functions to manage the team workload more efficiently.
• Utilizes effective systems as delegated to troubleshoot problems, track progress, and regularly evaluate workflow components to measure progress in a way that can be effectively communicated to the team leader/elite teacher.
• Contributes to the organization's mission and reflects the school's priorities.
• Is prepared to assist in the planning, implementation, execution, and evaluation of unique projects.
• Perform other duties as assigned or required.

Essential Functions

• Provide interactive and meaningful learning material to students, maintain a positive learning environment for their active participation, assign homework, and conduct class tests to analyze their progress.
• Implementing and delivering quality instruction to students and executing the instructional program by demanding higher-order thinking activities from students in a progressive manner.
• Designing the curriculum that challenges the learning ability of students and ensures the overall development of language.
• Preparing home assignments and test materials, evaluating the tests' results, and creating innovative teaching methods per the students' varying backgrounds, learning styles, and grasping power.
• Providing learning material and language reference books to the students, utilizing available resources in the school curriculum to monitor, access, and evaluate students' learning abilities.
• Contributes to the organization's mission and reflects the school's priorities.
• Is prepared to assist in the planning, implementation, execution, and evaluation of unique projects.

Professionalism

• To be punctual and be available during official working hours.
• To comply with AAMA policies, standards, rules, regulations, and procedures.
• To take precautions to protect equipment, materials, and facilities.
• To participate responsibly in the school's improvement initiatives.
• To demonstrate timeliness and attendance for assigned responsibilities.
• To work collaboratively with other professionals and staff.
• To provide and accept evaluative feedback professionally.
• Maintains a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about school personnel.

Required Qualifications and Skills

The Classroom Teacher will be thoroughly committed to the AAMA mission. Prior successful full-time education experience in a similar setting is preferred. Concrete, demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:

• Unwavering commitment to quality programs and production.
• Excellence in organizational management and data disaggregation, with managing multiple tasks and setting and achieving strategic objectives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills.
• An action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to planning.
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people.
• Passion, idealism, integrity, grit, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed.

Required Personal Skills

• Proficiency in technology.
• Prior experience in charter schools.
• Knowledge of current community challenges and opportunities relating to AAMA's mission.

Required Education, Certification, and Qualifications

• Valid Texas State Teaching License or equivalent.
• Bachelor's degree in the field of education.
• Valid Texas Driver's License.