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Middle School Math Teacher
Description:
This is a .5 position as a middle school math (6-8) teacher at Discovery Charter School. This position is available for 2024-2025 school year. We are hoping to hire and/or host a student teacher or even a Tier I teacher to work with a licensed math teacher. Our class sizes are very small and our teachers and students benefit from an amazing student support staff (Title I and Special Education). Our middle school team would love to have you on board! This position could also be modified to include hours as student support staff, if you are looking for full-time.
Required Qualifications:
- Valid MN Teaching License in Middle School Math
- Or Tier I teaching license with math teaching experience
Responsibilities:
- Teach district approved curriculum without proselytizing students cultural, political, religious, or philosophical beliefs.
- Create instructional goals that are connected to standards, are measurable, establish high expectations, and are relevant to students' lives
- Deliver differentiated instruction that supports student differences, learning needs, and exceptionalities.
- Provide student assessments that are congruent with learning goals and are used to help students' progress toward mastery of standards.
- Create and maintain a classroom environment that promotes caring and respect, is conducive to effective learning and meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of students.
- Establish clear standards and classroom procedures for student behavior that address individual needs in a respectful and preventative manner.
- Monitor and assess student progress through both formative and summative assessments and adjust student instruction accordingly.
- Provide feedback to students and parents that is accurate, constructive, substantive, specific, timely, and provided in a manner that promotes students' learning.
- Display accurate knowledge of the diverse cultures of students and consistently demonstrate understanding of cultural influences on student's behavior and success.
Professional Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain effective and professional relationships with students, peers, and parents.
- Demonstrate effective written and oral communication with parents/guardians that displays cultural sensitivity.
- Collaborate with others to improve professional practice and student achievement.
Discovery Charter School will embrace a multidisciplinary curriculum with an emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to provide a challenging learning environment that values creativity, diversity and multiculturalism to prepare its students for life-long learning, collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving.
Apply for this position by sending application materials to hlines@discoverymn.org Please include a resume, copy of licensure, and three letters of recommendation. Please call the Discovery Charter School Office at 651-444-8464 if you have any questions.
Heather Lines, Executive Director
4100 66th Street East
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076
