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Title: Teacher – English Learner
Employee Group & Grade: Professional/Exempt
Reports To: Principal, Assistant Principal, or Designee
Starting Salary Scale: $49,000-$62,000
Calendar Year: 195 days
Date Written/Revised: April 2023
Why Teach at GOAL High School?
Purpose of Job:
To teach English learner (EL) students while researching and providing academic strategies and resources to the education staff contributing to successful student achievement.
Essential Duties/Major Accountabilities:
Show Up: Be ACCOUNTABLE for our students, ourselves, and our team.
Connect: Develop and maintain TRANSPARENT and HONEST relationships with our students and team.
Succeed: Become a STRONG unified team providing students an INNOVATIVE environment to become productive members of society.
Classroom Management
Classroom Attendance
Establish clear classroom attendance expectations for students.
Maintain expected student communication and document attendance utilizing identified GOAL systems.
Academic Intervention – MTSS
Monitor student attendance data to identify and provide interventions to students who are not actively engaged in class.
Ensure quality and timely documentation of all interventions provided.
Active Student and Parent Communication
Communicate regularly with students and parents to keep the student progressing toward academic success, including, but not limited to, providing progress reports, class expectations, student participation rates and when needed, arrange/support student/parent teacher conferences.
Establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with students and families based on trust, understanding and respect for the communities in which they identify.
Teaching / Tutoring
Quality Courses and Instruction
Utilize GOAL established guidelines for quality course structure and instructional practices.
Grading and Gradebooks
Maintain complete and accurate grading and gradebooks in the GOAL LMS (Schoology).
Ensure weekly gradebook updates by the close of business each Friday.
Sheltered Instruction
English Learner Plan (ELP)
Utilize ELP (while recognizing student’s language ability) to optimize instruction, monitor progress and provide direction to teammates, parents, and students.
Shelter Instruction Implementation
Model quality sheltered instruction to assist other teammates in implementing SI in their classroom/course designs.
Champion instructional technologies specific to EL students, providing training to students, parents, and staff, as necessary.
Gladiator Connections/Advocacy
Advocacy
Facilitate and support the school’s literacy intervention services program.
Collaborate with teachers individually to identify the math needs of students, to set learning goals and targets, and to problem solve with teachers to develop best practices for continuous academic growth of students.
Communication
Build connections with staff, students, and parents to keep the student progressing toward academic success, working as a united team to set goals, provide support and overcome barriers to academic progress. This will include, but not limited to, attending family support meetings, connecting through group messaging and meetings, and providing updates on student academic performance.
Use effective communication skills to present information accurately and clearly with regard to intervention services programming.
Extra-Curricular
Possess and share a general knowledge of GOAL Academy's extra-curricular activities and student opportunities.
Student Learning
Assess and Monitor Growth
Champion GOAL's culture of assessment by ensuring student participation and proctoring throughout the year.
Utilize pre/post assessment data to monitor and guide academic growth.
Identify and set student growth targets and/or needed interventions.
Analyze existing student achievement data and administer progress monitoring instruments as needed to aid in progress monitoring of intervention students.
Success Team
Participate in regular meetings to collaborate with team members to analyze data surrounding student performance and passer ratings.
Work with team to develop strategies to improve student performance in core classes and curriculum.
Accountability Standards for all GOAL Academy High School Staff:
Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Education:
One of the following Certifications to teach English Learners in CLDE, CELTA, TESOL, TEFL, required. *CLDE Preferred
Highly Qualified as a Colorado Secondary Educator (e.g., Math, English, Science, Social Studies), Colorado Teaching licensed and/or additional Highly Qualified areas preferred.
Valid Colorado Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Education License or enrollment in this program preferred.
Experience:
Three to five years of experience working in a school or school system preferred.
At least two years of experience working in a high school with at risk youth preferred.
Or other background demonstrating application of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
History of advanced knowledge of differentiated instruction, knowledge of different learning styles and challenges, and the ability to apply them to English learners in a blended learning environment.
Demonstrated work history in teaching in an English as a Secondary Language environment.
Solid background in the ability to design learning activities that are effective for English learners.
Advanced knowledge and/or experience of instruction, testing, data analysis, and curriculum development.
Can show an advanced knowledge of education data analysis, collaborative decision-making, relationship building, group facilitation, conflict management, problem-solving, as well as resource allocation and prioritization.
Demonstrated history working with technology including application of various office programs and ability to deliver/instruct/guide students on material/equipment dealing with technology.
Love for children and ability to work enthusiastically on their behalf.
Current or previous positions required excellent interpersonal, organizational, time-management, verbal, and written communication skills.
Solid employment background being well versed in conflict resolution skills with the ability to mediate conflicts (e.g., between students, staff, parents, or community members).
Ethical, honest, and good-humored.
Physical Requirements of this position include:
Seldom
Cold-50 F or less/Heat- 90 F or more/Gases-Fumes/ Heights/Climbing/ Crawling-Kneeling/ Bending/ Walking on Uneven Surfaces/Chemical-Solvents/ Travel-National or International
Over 30 Pounds: Lifting-Lowering-Reaching Over Shoulders-Reaching Forward-Pushing-Pulling-Carrying
Occasional
Noise/Working Alone/ Local Travel/ Visual Acuity-Far/ Color Discrimination
Over 20 Pounds: Lifting-Lowering-Reaching Over Shoulders-Reaching Forward-Pushing-Pulling-Carrying
Frequent
Driving/ Work with Others/ Visual Acuity-Near/ Hearing/ Speech/ Manual Dexterity/ Eye-Hand Coordination/ Computer/ Mouse/ Copier/ Scanner/ Printer/ Telephone
Under 20 Pounds: Lifting-Lowering-Reaching Over Shoulders-Reaching Forward-Pushing-Pulling-Carrying
GOAL High School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, genetic information, or other status protected by law in its admission, access to, treatment, or employment in its education programs or activities.
Full Time
Elementary & Secondary Education
$43k-73k (estimate)
05/10/2024
05/16/2024
goalac.org
THORNTON, CO
100 - 200
2009
GABRIELLA RODRIGUEZ
$10M - $50M
Elementary & Secondary Education
GOAL ACADEMY MISSION Developing productive members of society. GOAL ACADEMY VISION Helping all students achieve their full potential in a caring, supportive, and personalized environment. Description GOAL Academy is Colorado's Premier Online School. We have over 30 sites throughout Colorado Please see our website for specific site addresses. www.goalac.org General Information With over 5,000 students, GOAL High School is not only the largest high school in Colorado, it is also the premier model of blended-online learning. In this unprecedented era of educational uncertainty, school choice beco...mes of even higher importance. As literally every school in the nation pieces together some version of online learning blended with face-to-face instruction, GOAL has been pioneering and perfecting this model for over thirteen years. GOALS mission -- to develop productive members of society -- is more important now than ever before! Doing so in line with our vision to ensure an environment which is personalized, caring, and supportive is what every parent and student desires. GOAL is a free PERFORMANCE rated high school which partners with Microsoft and Lenovo to provide cutting edge technology. Our thirty-six student drop-in centers statewide provide for excellent, safe social-distancing environments so students can get the face-to-face support they need both academically and in the social-emotional realm. Andrew Campanella may have said it best in his recent book, The School Choice Roadmap, that GOAL combines rigorous online education with in-person communications, truly the best of both worlds!
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