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Title: Teacher – Health Science
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?
Great Mission and Great Culture.
Recognized as an Award-winning School throughout Colorado.
Recognized as 1 of 3 schools worldwide to receive the distinction of “Biggest Impact School” in technology from Microsoft.
Hybrid Work Schedule; three days virtual, two days onsite.
100% On-line Teaching model, minimal to no classroom discipline and management for teachers and staff.
Drop-In Sites to connect with students and other staff.
195 calendar workdays.
Our teachers can plan vacations with one 14-day break and two 1-week breaks and summers off.
99% of Teaching Staff returning in 2022-2023.
Very competitive starting salary based on years of experience and qualifications.
Potential to earn Pay-for-Performance incentives as a member of the GOAL Team.
Competitive Benefits to include an emphasis on Wellness in the Workplace.
The ability to continue contributing to the required Colorado Public Schools Retirement System PERA.
PERA 401K, with a 5% Match after one year.
Medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance and AD&D plans.
Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
Voluntary life insurance for employees and dependents.
Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
Optional additional insurance that includes critical illness and accident insurance.
Employee Assistance Program.
Company provided laptop and cell phone and additional equipment as needed.
Robust Professional Development and opportunity to work with passionate, mission-driven colleagues who are invested in your personal and professional growth.
GOAL High School is a qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF).
Purpose of Job:
To provide supplemental instructional support in the development of each student’s health science skills as the foundation for success in high school courses while collaborating with the educational 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.
Student Engagement
Classroom Engagement
Maintain clear classroom attendance expectations for students.
Maintain expected student communication and document attendance utilizing identified GOAL systems.
Academic Intervention
Utilize daily and weekly student engagement and participation data to provide interventions to students who are not actively engaged in class.
Provide appropriate and timely academic intervention to meet individual student needs, and document appropriately in GOAL's MTSS system.
Attend professional development opportunities and instructional coaching that promote improved instructional strategies and support researched-based resource material needed to successfully maintain professional growth.
Active Student and Parent Communication
Communicate regularly with students (daily) and parents (monthly) 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.
Provide high-quality virtual (live and recorded) instruction to individual students and small groups.
Create an online classroom environment and adhere to the research-based program of study that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students.
Plan and use appropriate instructional and learning strategies, activities, materials, and equipment that reflect understanding of the learning styles and needs of students.
Apply instructional strategies to meet the needs of individual students through differentiation to appropriately serve their learning plans, including, but not limited to, IEPs, ELPs, ALPs, and 504s.
Support the implementation of school platforms, assessment tools, and data management systems.
Maintain strong organizational skills.
RTI – Response to Intervention
Utilize data to provide intervention instruction to students and to bring their skills to grade-level.
Utilize identified research-based interventions focused specifically on individual student needs.
Maintain data-based documentation of continuous monitoring of student performance and progress.
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.
Gladiator POD
Advocacy
Facilitate and support your POD team to lead to a positive working environment for fellow staff and student groups.
Collaborate with your assigned POD to identify the needs of your students.
Set and maintain learning goals and targets 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 is not limited to, attending family support meetings, connecting through group messaging and meetings, and providing updates on student academic performance.
Extra-Curricular
Possess and share a general knowledge of GOAL Academy's extra-curricular activities and student opportunities.
Teamwork
Participate in daily POD huddles to establish clear lines of communication and define daily responsibilities with fellow POD teammates for the success of assigned students.
Attendance
Maintain daily student communication and document attendance utilizing identified GOAL systems.
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.
Statewide Content Teams
Participate in regular meetings to collaborate with team members to analyze data surrounding student performance and passer ratings.
Work with the team to develop strategies to improve student performance in core classes and curriculum.
Accountability Standards for all GOAL Academy High School Staff:
Love for children and ability to work enthusiastically on their behalf.
Actively and enthusiastically recruit new students through community partnerships and community events.
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, time-management, verbal, and written communication skills.
Knowledgeable and comfortable working with technology.
Able to competently and persistently apply problem solving skills towards technology issues.
Proven ability to serve on teams and participate in a collaborative decision-making process.
Strong work ethic to achieve both school and personal goals.
Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
Willingness to travel regionally and transport students as required.
Ethical, honest, and good-humored.
Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in Education or Health Science discipline, Science Education or related field required.
OR Highly Qualified as a Colorado Secondary Educator in Science discipline, Science Education or related field required..
OR Valid Colorado Secondary Teaching License or be able to obtain Health Science, Health Science Foundational CTE credential 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.
History of advanced knowledge of differentiated instruction, knowledge of different learning styles and challenges, and the ability to apply them to intervention students in a blended learning environment.
Demonstrated proficiency in a teaching/tutoring capacity.
Comprehensive knowledge of instructional strategies and the role of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Demonstrated proficiency in the design and implementation of academic interventions preferred.
Advanced knowledge and/or experience of instruction, testing, data analysis, and curriculum development.
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
$54k-83k (estimate)
05/13/2024
05/17/2024
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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