World Languages Teacher
Full-time
Johnston Community School District
Position Criteria:
- Valid Iowa teaching license with 5-12 Spanish and/or Frenchendorsement required
- Previous middle school 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 collaborativelyto 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
Required Experience:
IC
Vacancy posted 15 days ago
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