Middle Grades ELA Teacher

Person County Schools • Roxboro, NC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Middle Grades ELA Teacher is responsible for planning, organizing, and presenting instruction and instructional environments that help students learn subject matter and skills contributing to their educational and social development. This role involves managing instructional time, student behavior, instructional presentation, monitoring student performance, providing feedback, facilitating instruction, and interacting effectively within the educational environment. The teacher also performs non-instructional duties and adheres to established laws, policies, and regulations, while demonstrating growth through professional development.

Requirements

• Degree in education or a related area qualifying for licensure as a teacher by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
• Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students, particularly in inclusive activities.
• Ability to motivate students.
• Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment.
• Ability to perform general clerical duties.
• Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom.
• Ability to operate common office machines.
• Ability to maintain basic files and records.
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for children with special needs.
• Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Physical requirements are consistent with Light Work due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking.
• Data Conception: Ability to compare and/or judge the characteristics of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including receiving instructions.
• Language Ability: Ability to read various documents and prepare correspondence, reports, and instructional materials.
• Intelligence: Ability to apply logical/scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions; interpret technical instructions; and deal with abstract and concrete variables.
• Verbal Aptitude: Ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, and follow instructions; communicate effectively in various professional languages.
• Numerical Aptitude: Ability to utilize mathematical formulas, perform calculations, and apply principles of statistics.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Ability to inspect items for proper dimensions.
• Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity: Ability to handle office equipment and hand tools with minimal eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Color Discrimination: Ability to differentiate between colors and shades.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions, and adapt to stress and emergency situations.
• Physical Communication: Ability to talk and hear, and communicate via telephone.

Responsibilities

• Management of Instructional Time: Ensure materials, supplies, and equipment are ready for lessons, start classes quickly, get students on task promptly, and maintain a high level of student time-on-task.
• Management of Student Behavior: Establish and enforce rules and procedures for routine matters, student participation, movement, and transitions, while promptly and consistently addressing inappropriate behavior while maintaining student dignity.
• Instructional Presentation: Begin lessons with a review, introduce new material and objectives, speak fluently and precisely, use understandable language and relevant examples, assign tasks with a high success rate, ask appropriate questions, maintain a brisk pace, make smooth transitions, clarify assignments, and summarize key points.
• Instructional Monitoring of Student Performance: Maintain clear work standards and due dates, circulate to check student performance during class, use various work products to assess progress, and pose questions clearly.
• Instructional Feedback: Provide feedback on in-class work to encourage growth, regularly provide prompt feedback on out-of-class assignments, affirm correct responses, and provide sustaining feedback for incorrect responses by probing or offering assistance.
• Facilitating Instruction: Develop and implement instructional plans aligned with school and system-wide goals, use diagnostic information to revise objectives and tasks, maintain accurate student performance records, align objectives, strategies, and assessments, and utilize available resources.
• Interacting Within the Educational Environment: Treat all students fairly and equitably, and interact effectively with students, co-workers, parents, and the community.
• Performing Non-Instructional Duties: Carry out assigned non-instructional duties, adhere to laws and policies, and engage in professional development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level