Grade 1 ESL DLI Teacher - Schenk - 1.0 FTE - 26-27 SY

Madison Metropolitan School District•Madison, WI

13h•Onsite

About The Position

The Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is seeking a highly motivated and energetic Grade 1 ESL DLI Teacher for Schenk Elementary. This is a 1.0 FTE position for the 26-27 school year. MMSD is committed to being anti-racist, culturally responsive, and inclusive, with a vision to ensure every school is a thriving school that prepares every student for college, career, and community. The district serves a diverse student population and is dedicated to creating a challenging and rewarding work environment that supports employee career paths and reflects the diversity of its students. This role involves serving as a bilingual classroom teacher within the district's bilingual and English Language Learner (EL) programs, assisting in curriculum development, and providing classroom instruction.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
Official transcripts are required for formal employment.
Native-like fluency in Spanish and English.
For Bilingual Resource Teacher and Dual Language Immersion positions, a Spanish language proficiency assessment is required.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) teaching license in: Elementary School Regular Education inclusive of elementary grade levels (e.g., PK-3, K-6, 1-8, EC-MA, etc.).
Bilingual/Bi-Cultural ESL REQUIRED, Bilingual preferred.
Must obtain and maintain the necessary license(s) for the position if not already licensed.
An application must be on file within 30 days of starting your employment with MMSD.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual preferred.

Responsibilities

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.
Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
Instruct 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.
Adapt 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.
Establish rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible.
Meet with parents/guardians to discuss their student's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
Collaborate with all staff in support of student learning (e.g., team planning and co-teaching).
Serve as a bilingual classroom teacher as part of the District’s bilingual and English Language Learner (EL) programs.
Assist in the development of curriculum for bilingual and ESL instruction in the District.
Provide classroom instruction to students in bilingual classrooms.
Provide additional support and leadership to the bilingual and ESL education programs as requested.