High School Science Teacher

DAKOTA CUSD 201 SCHOOL DISTRICT; Dakota (IL); On-site; USD 39,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Dakota CUSD 201 School District is seeking a High School Science Teacher 1.0 FTE at Dakota High School. The role offers a competitive compensation range of $38,910 to $90,446 based on qualifications and experience.

The teacher will implement an approved instructional program for Jr/Sr High School, use current teaching methods, assess student progress, and provide timely feedback to students, parents and administration while supporting diverse learners and integrating technology to enhance

Qualifications

• Content knowledge of science concepts.
• Ability to engage students through inquiry-based learning.
• Experience designing learning experiences with technology.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate teaching resources for accuracy and usefulness.
• Engage students using inquiry-based methods.
• Design learning experiences using technology.
• Analyze student performance to tailor instruction.
• Provide timely feedback to students and parents.
• Support diverse learners with adaptive strategies.

Skills

Content Knowledge

Assessment Of Learning

Diversity & Inclusion

Adaptive Instruction

Job description

High School Science Teacher 1.0 FTE

High School Science Teacher 1.0 FTE

Position Type: Jr/Sr High School Teaching

Location: Dakota High School

Compensation Range: $38,910-$90,446 based on qualifications and experience

Purpose Of The Position

The Teacher understands the central concepts, methods of inquiry, and structures of disciplines and creates learning experiences that make the content meaningful to all students. To this end, the Teacher provides an educational atmosphere conducive to learning where students have the opportunity to fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and/or psychological growth. The Teacher is responsible for utilizing current teaching methods in order to organize and implement an approved instructional program that will result in students achieving academic success in accordance with applicable law, District requirements and policies; documenting teaching and student progress/activities/outcomes; addressing specific educational needs of students; providing timely feedback to students, parents and administration regarding student progress, expectations, goals, etc.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. In addition to the requirements listed below, regular attendance is an essential function of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

• Content Knowledge
• Evaluates teaching resources and curriculum materials for their comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usefulness for representing particular ideas and concepts.
• Uses differing viewpoints, theories, "ways of knowing" and methods of inquiry in teaching subject matter concepts.
• Engages students in generating and testing knowledge according to the process of inquiry and standards of evidence of the discipline.
• Designs learning experiences to promote student skills in the use of technologies appropriate to the discipline.
• Anticipates and adjusts for common misunderstandings of the discipline(s) that impede learning.
• Uses a variety of explanations and multiple representations of concepts that capture key ideas to help students develop conceptual understanding.
• Facilitates learning experiences that make connections to other content areas and to life and career experiences.
• Designs learning experiences and utilizes adaptive devices/technology to provide access to general curricular content to individuals with disabilities.
• Human Development and Learning
• Analyzes individual and group performance in order to design instruction that meets learners' current needs in the cognitive, social, emotional, ethical, and physical domains at the appropriate level of development.
• Stimulates student reflection on prior knowledge and links new ideas to already familiar ideas and experiences.
• Introduces concepts and principles at different levels of complexity so that they are meaningful to students at varying levels of development and to students with diverse learning needs.
• Diversity a .Facilitates a learning community in which individual differences are respected.
• Makes appropriate provisions (in terms of time and circumstances for work, tasks assigned, communication, and response modes) for individual students who have particular learning differences or needs.
• Uses information about students' families,