What are the responsibilities and job description for the Middle School Humanities (ELA and/or Social Studies) Teacher position at BLUE OAK SCHOOL?
Description:
- Design and lead inquiry-based learning in the humanities classroom that includes interdisciplinary projects and differentiated instruction
- Collaborate with colleagues to design integrated curriculum, projects, and service-learning opportunities
- Lead daily advisory meetings using planned middle school advisory curriculum
- Create a classroom space that is differentiated, engaging, responsive, and beautiful
- Integrate tools and technology as appropriate to support learning and deepen projects
- Identify and respond to individual students’ academic, social, and emotional needs, including learning differences in collaboration with Learning Specialist
- Coordinate field trips to enrich curriculum; organize and attend overnight trip
- Plan, design, and implement authentic assessment of student progress
- Write progress reports and hold conferences with parents
- Use documentation to make learning visible to the children and families; contribute to student portfolios
- Teaching Credential and/or M.Ed. or related field
- A minimum of two years classroom teaching experience
- Experience teaching in a humanities model
- Experience with progressive pedagogy, student-centered learning, project-based learning, integrated curriculum planning, and authentic measures of student learning
- A commitment to creating an inclusive classroom community that allows for a multitude of perspectives to be heard and respected
- Values individual learning profiles by teaching in multiple modalities and offering differentiated instruction
- A love of working with middle school students and creating a joyful learning environment