Teacher - Middle School Science @ Frontier Middle School

Moses Lake School District 161 • Moses Lake, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Moses Lake School District is seeking applications for a Middle School Science Teacher at Frontier Middle School. This role requires a dedicated educator committed to fostering high expectations for student achievement and employing research-based instructional strategies. The teacher will be responsible for creating a positive and safe learning environment, differentiating instruction to meet diverse student needs, and collaborating effectively with students, parents, and colleagues.

Requirements

• Valid Washington State teacher certificate K-8 and 4-12 Science endorsement required, must meet highly qualified teacher definition.
• Undergraduate major or graduate degree in Science.
• Willingness to work in co-curricular program.
• Demonstrated understanding of research-based instructional strategies and assessment practices that support effective instruction.
• Recent successful experience working with educators in demonstrating and modeling effective instructional strategies and assessment practices.
• Demonstrated knowledge of needs of diverse learners and strategies for addressing these needs.
• Understanding of appropriate local and state standards.
• Maintain integrity of confidential information relating to students, staff and district patrons.
• Evidence/demonstration of use of technology to enhance student learning or willingness to learn.
• Demonstrated organizational skills and commitment to follow through on tasks.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain excellent working relationships with students, teachers, school administrators, support personnel, and community members.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Centering instruction on high expectations for student achievement by communicating expectations verbally and in writing for learning and achievement, consistently conveying rigorous expectations to students and parents, demonstrating how results impact daily instruction, and conducting learning activities aligned to lesson objectives and priority standards.
• Demonstrating effective teaching practices by utilizing research-based instructional practices, aligning instructional behaviors with best practices of the learning process, remaining current in content-related pedagogy, structuring and pacing to the appropriate level of the learners, utilizing questioning that requires higher-level thinking skills, and clearly articulating directions and teaching necessary procedures for student success.
• Effectively modifying curriculum and differentiating instructional practices to support student learning.
• Recognizing individual student learning needs and developing strategies to address these needs by knowing and utilizing intervention strategies, differentiating learning activities, demonstrating a persistent attitude that all students can learn, communicating the individual needs of students, communicating clear learning targets, providing a student-friendly lesson and unit structure, ensuring instructional materials and resources are aligned and appropriate for the learning target, and activating prior knowledge to support learning.
• Identifying the critical content to be taught within the time allotted.
• Fostering and managing a safe, positive learning environment by establishing positive relationships with all students, consistently monitoring student behavior and rewarding and correcting frequently in a respectful manner, and organizing the environment and the lesson to minimize transitions between activities.
• Using multiple student data elements to modify instruction and improve student learning by using data to modify instruction as appropriate, assessing student learning numerous times throughout a lesson, instructing students to self-assess and monitor their own progress, frequently asking students to reflect on their own learning, and using a variety of formative assessments.
• Communicating and collaborating with parents and school community by initiating communication with parents beyond mandatory reporting, communicating important aspects of the instructional program to parents to engage them with their student's education, and providing meaningful information to parents about individual students.
• Exhibiting, collaborating, and engaging in collegial practices by contributing to the PLT/Data Team on a regular basis, consistently seeking ways to improve, demonstrating the ability to make decisions in the best interest of students, maintaining a positive relationship with peers under all circumstances, consulting with counselor/psychologist and designated staff to solve and plan interventions for children, and coordinating and training paraeducators as necessary in literacy curriculum.

What This Job Offers

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