1 Horizons - Literacy/ELA Teacher Job in Fairfield, CT
Sacred Heart University is Hiring a Horizons - Literacy/ELA Teacher Near Fairfield, CT
Lead ELA teacher for grades 6, 7, and 8
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead ELA teacher for grades 6, 7 and 8 daily
- Plan and implement literature circles, a curriculum that uses short stories and constructed responses to improve writing fluency, and develop summary and theme
- Build strong and mutually respectful relationships with students and their families based on open communication and collaboration, including weekly communications to families on Parentsquare and on the phone
- Facilitate and sustain an emotionally safe and trauma-informed classroom environment
- Maintain and model professional boundaries and mutually respectful relationships with students, colleagues, supervisors, and community partners with the foundation of open communication, respect, and collaboration
- Help to foster establish and maintain an emotionally safe and trauma-informed environment at HSHU
- Maintain attendance records, work with Executive Director and Program Coordinator to develop and implement instruction, and provide meaningful feedback to learners
- Oversee and work in collaboration with a team consisting of a lead teacher, classroom coach, SEL Response team, Math teacher, and volunteer
- Live/actualize the HSHU community values
- Attend all training, professional learning, onboarding, programming, and community events
- Collect and input all required metrics, data and surveys by assigned dates
- Other duties as assigned
- Minimum 2-4 years experience teaching literacy/ELA to middle school students
- Experience working with a wide range of abilities and differentiating learning to meet the needs of all students
- Experience teaching social-emotional learning and with mentoring
- Experience building community in middle school classrooms
- Strong commitment to antiracist practice and the HSHU mission
- Willingness to connect with the HSHU community after the summer program by attending school year events
- Experience with project-based learning
- Effective oral and communication skills
- Experience using technology to enhance instruction
- Skills needed to mentor and coach classroom staff
Seasonal Dates:Dates of Program:
- Training week – 6/17-6/23
- Program Days 6/26-8/4, two required evening events 7/31 and 8/2
- Clean up Days 8/7 – 8/8
- Pre-Training Onboarding – Date TBD
Job Summary
Full Time
Specialty Trade in Construction
$48k-82k (estimate)
01/20/2024
05/14/2024
sacredheart.edu
NORWALK, CT
1,000 - 3,000
1963
EDGAR R TACURI A
<$5M
Specialty Trade in Construction
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About Sacred Heart University
Mission We believe that our purposed faith, our commitment to passionate service and our relentless pursuit and embrace of intellectual exchange are the essential elements of Sacred Heart University as an institution and as a community. At our core, we remain focused on the preservation and transmission of the liberal arts and Catholic intellectual traditions. These values compel us as educators and scholars to continually create more diverse and challenging programs, internships and opportunities for our students and for ourselves that are based in the pursuit of truth and knowledge. Our beli...ef in the unlimited potential of every member of the Sacred Heart community has led us to pursue nothing less than uncompromising integrity, courageous leadership and overall excellence from our students, alumni, faculty and staff. Our unwavering belief in the dignity and worth of every human being emboldens us to become fearless in our intellectual discovery, inquiry, understanding and tolerance of a universe of ideas, ethics, problems, differences and similarities. Together we live, learn, grow and serve as individuals that passionately embody the values of Sacred Heart University in our intellectual, personal, professional and spiritual lives. We are Pioneers for the common good. We are committed to creating a better future for others, our community and our world. Description SHU is the second-largest Catholic university in New England and was the first in America to be led and staffed by lay people. More than 6,400 students attend the University; the fall 2011 enrollment included 3,488 full-time undergraduates, 685 part-time undergraduates and 2,234 graduate students including the Luxembourg campus.
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