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Linn-Mar Community Schools Middle School Social Studies Teacher - Excelsior Middle School in Marion, Iowa
Job Description
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Immediate Supervisor: Building Principal or Designee
Summary (Job Goal): Be dedicated to the development of lifelong learners by equipping students with the knowledge and skills to confidently meet lifes challenges as responsible, productive citizens.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: (Other duties may be assigned.) Enhance Academic performance
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and effectively communicate those objectives to students.
- Identify students needs and make appropriate referrals and develop strategies for individual education plans.
- Effectively communicate with parents on a regular basis outside the normal classroom day by means of newsletters, e-mail, notes, phone calls and individual parent conferences.
- Discuss student problems, behavior incidents, positive developments, and progress with parents in an honest, sensitive, and confidential manner.
- Promotes parent participation and involvement in education activities provided for their children.
- Confer and cooperate with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting student learning, following approved curricula.
- Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve student behavioral and academic problems.
- Identify students showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems, and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
- Engage in collaborative work and contribute to team planning.
Competence in Content Knowledge
- Teach relevant and meaningful curriculum to students in a classroom, using the course of study adopted by the District and other appropriate learning activities.
- Provide individual and small group instruction designed to meet individual needs of students and adapt curriculum as needed.
- Develop and use instructional materials suitable for verbal or visual instruction of students with a wide range of mental, physical, and emotional maturities.
- Enrich the educational program through study/field trips to community locations and through community member classroom visits as appropriate. Share and interpret these experiences with students and parents.
- Instruct students in citizenship and basic subject matter specified in state law and regulations and procedures of the District.
Planning/Preparing
- Develop lesson plans and instructional materials and provide individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each student.
- Plan individual and group activities to stimulate academic, social and emotional growth.
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- Translate lesson plans and activities into developmentally appropriate learning experiences to best utilize the available time for instruction.
- Create an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive displays, interest centers, and exhibits of students work.
- Prepare for assigned classes, and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisor.
- Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of the State and District.
Instructional Strategies
- Implement individual and group activities to stimulate academic, social and emotional growth.
- Foster cooperative social behavior through activities and group projects to assist students in forming satisfying relationships with other students and adults.
- Develop in each student an awareness of his/her worth as an individual and his/her role in his/her family and community.
- Utilize technology - computers, audiovisual aids, and other equipment in the delivery of instruction.
- Identify student needs and make appropriate referrals and develop strategies for individual education plans. Actively participate in the IEP process.
- Utilize research based teaching strategies to effectively plan and teach required curriculum.
- Engage students in varied experiences that meet diverse needs and promote social, emotional, and academic growth.
Methods to Monitor Student Learning
Evaluate students academic and social growth, keep appropriate records and prepare progress reports.
Utilize assessment materials and make appropriate classroom student assessments.
Prepare, administer, and correct tests, and record results.
Maintain