Empowering Grade 6 Language Arts Teacher

Wifca; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 47,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is hiring a Grade 6 Language Arts Teacher for Black Hawk Middle School. The position is 1.0 FTE for the 26-27 school year with an exempt, 192-day contract and a starting annual compensation of $53,525.

Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree and a DPI license in English/Language Arts. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and licensure must be current to begin.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree. Official transcripts are required for formal employment.
• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) teaching license in English/Language Arts or English to cover the grade level(s) being taught.
• Applications are considered on a rolling basis.
• If you do not already have an active Wisconsin teaching license, you must obtain and maintain the necessary license(s) for the position.
• The district does not provide financial support for the continued education that is required to achieve the certification.

Responsibilities

• Use standards (CCSS, SELS, Language) to identify learning targets that represent what all students should know, do and understand as a result of the instruction.
• Use knowledge of students’ background, interest, style, culture, language, individual needs, and assessment data to inform planning.
• Develop daily and weekly plans to support student growth towards mastery of standards.
• Develop common year-long/course plans that identify the essential questions and resources to support student learning.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
• Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods to build engagement, collaboration, and independence with complex tasks.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Provide daily opportunities for students to describe their reasoning, share explanations, make conjectures, justify conclusions, argue from evidence, and negotiate meaning.
• Define and plan formative assessments to show evidence of learning.
• Use multiple ways to check for student understanding and clarify, reteach and/or make adjustments to instruction based on information gathered.
• Provide students with meaningful feedback that reinforces effort, provides recognition and promotes student involvement and progress in the learning process.
• Provide opportunities for teacher–to-student, student-to-student and student-to-teacher feedback both orally and written.
• Analyze data and adjust instruction based on student achievement, observation, and teacher practice data.
• Establish rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible.
• Meet with parents/guardians to discuss their student's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
• Collaborating with all staff in support of student learning, e.g., team planning and co-teaching.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is hiring a Grade 6 Language Arts Teacher for Black Hawk Middle School. The position is 1.0 FTE for the 26-27 school year with an exempt, 192-day contract and a starting annual compensation of $53,525.

Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree and a DPI license in English/Language Arts. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and licensure must be current to begin.