Middle School English Language Arts Teacher

Middle School English Language Arts Teacher

The Middle School ELA Teacher is responsible for delivering engaging and standards-aligned instruction in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The educator will foster a supportive classroom environment that promotes critical thinking, literacy development, and a love for language arts among students.

Required Qualifications:

• Valid Oregon Teaching License with an endorsement in English Language Arts for middle grades.
• Strong knowledge of adolescent literacy development and instructional strategies.
• Proficiency in integrating technology into the classroom.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all learners.
• Prior successful teaching experience at the middle school level is preferred.
• Experience working with English Language Learners and/or students requiring academic intervention.
• Strong knowledge of language development, WIDA standards, and MTSS/RTI frameworks.
• Ability to differentiate instruction and use student data to inform teaching.
• Effective collaboration and communication skills.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive and supportive learning environment.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to exhibit professionalism and effective human relations.
• Ability to effectively manage and supervise students and their work.
• Bilingual (Spanish) preferred.
• Experience teaching in a rural or small-school setting preferred.
• Familiarity with MAP Growth assessments preferred.

Essential Functions:

• Meet the standards of Competent and Ethical Performance as outlined in Oregon Administrative Rules.
• Maintain current licenses and/or certificates required for the position.
• Create and model a respectful learning environment.
• Plan appropriate lessons and activities to meet students' needs.
• Use effective classroom management techniques.
• Use a variety of instructional techniques based upon sound education theory, which are appropriate to students' needs.
• Assess student performance, interpret, and utilize the results of student performance assessment.
• Maintain accurate, complete and confidential records as required by law and district policy and administrative regulations.
• Establish and maintain open lines of communication with school staff and with parents/guardians concerning academic and behavioral progress of students.
• Implement modifications and accommodations for all students with IEP's.
• Utilize technology as related to job responsibilities.
• Maintain and update current Grade Book and online ParentVue.
• Reflect upon own teaching and performance and accept and implement supervisory feedback to improve skills and services to students.
• Take primary responsibility for pursuing and evaluating own professional growth.
• Attend and participate in building staff meetings, IEP meetings, PLT's and district in-service meetings.
• Participate in parent-teacher conferences and school events.
• Perform physical requirements unaided or with the assistance of reasonable accommodation.
• Annually pass the district's required online training by the district's assigned due date.
• Follow District protocol for reporting absences.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Terms of Employment: Salary and work year to be according to the current negotiated contract.

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of Board policy.

Workplace Expectations:

• Attendance and Punctuality: The employee has regular attendance at work and work activities and is punctual in meeting deadlines, attending meetings, following schedules, and responding to communications.
• Confidentiality: The employee maintains the integrity of confidential information relating to a student, family, colleague, or district patron. The employee uses or relays personal information only in the course of performing assigned responsibilities and in the best interest of the individuals involved.
• Following policies and directives: The employee follows all district policies, rules, regulations, memos, bulletins, announcements, applicable job descriptions and reasonable requests by proper authorities.
• Setting appropriate boundaries with students: The employee maintains professional boundaries in his or her relationships with students, including the use of appropriate language, appropriate physical contact, and in the use of technology.
• Collaboration: The employee maintains relationships with other staff members that are characterized by mutual support, cooperation, and respect and that build a culture of collaboration focused on student learning.
• Appropriate use of technology: The employee uses the internet, email, and electronic communication in compliance with Nestucca Valley School District Acceptable Use Policy and Administrative Rule.

Physical Demands:

• Frequent or prolonged standing, walking and sitting.
• Working with students.
• Possible moderate to high noise level.
• Frequent and prolonged talking/listening in conversations/meetings.
• Requires accurate perceiving of sound, near and far vision, depth perception.
• Requires handling and working with a variety of materials and objects.
• Work may occasionally involve lifting/carrying objects weighing 25 pounds.