24-25 - Memorial - ESL Teacher - 1.0 FTE (40 HPW)

at  Madison Metropolitan School District

MINIMUM ANNUAL COMPENSATION: $48,656

MMSD is seeking highly motivated and energetic teacher applicants for openings for the 2024-2025 school year. The Madison Metropolitan School District actively seeks and encourages women and candidates of color to apply.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Use standards (CCSS, SELS, Language) to identify common learning targets that represent what all students should know, do and understand as a result of the instruction
• Use knowledge of students’ background, interest, style, culture, language, individual needs, and assessment data to inform planning
• Develop daily and weekly plans to support student growth towards mastery of standards
• Develop common year-long/course plans that identify the essential questions and resources to support student learning
• Establishing clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students
• Instructing students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations to build student engagement, collaboration, and independence with complex tasks
• Adapting teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ varying needs and interests
• Provide daily opportunities for students to describe their reasoning, share explanations, make conjectures, justify conclusions, argue from evidence, and negotiate meaning
• Define and plan formative assessments to show evidence of learning
• Use multiple ways to check for student understanding and clarify, reteach and/or make adjustments to instruction based on information gathered
• Provide students with meaningful feedback that reinforces effort, provides recognition and promotes student involvement and progress in the learning process
• Provide opportunities for teacher–to-student, student-to-student and student-to-teacher feedback both orally and written
• Analyze data and adjust instruction based on student achievement, observation, and teacher practice data
• Establishing rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible
• Meeting with parents/guardians to discuss their student’s progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs
• Collaborating with all staff in support of student learning (e.g., team planning and co-teaching)

JOB SPECIFIC DUTIES

• Serving as a bilingual classroom teacher as part of the District’s bilingual and English Language Learner (ELL) programs
• Assisting in the development of curriculum for bilingual and ESL instruction in the District
• Providing classroom instruction to students in bilingual classrooms
• Providing additional support and leadership to the bilingual and ESL education programs as requested