- Full Time
- Miami, FL
High School English Language Arts Teacher
Our client is a progressive, independent ‘happiness’ school that combines a deep commitment to emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and happiness with a challenging curriculum featuring language immersion, entrepreneurial thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration. Using a strengths-based approach to learning, students and teachers have opportunities to do what they love across the curriculum.
Must be comfortable being in person on campus with students.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement an English Language Arts curriculum that focuses on developing strong readers, writers, and critical thinkers and exposes students to a range of literature representing diverse backgrounds, cultures, and voices.
- Develop and implement a culturally responsive curriculum for either a high school arts elective or high school advisory class for students at varying levels of progress from grades 9 through 12. This includes creating schemes of work and lesson plans, identifying, and selecting instructional resources and methods to meet student’s needs, and preparing the classroom for activities.
- Collaborate with colleagues on curriculum development and on enhancing instructional practices and strategies.
- Regularly assess students’ progress by observing and evaluating performance and development, assigning and grading classwork, homework, tests, and assignments, and providing appropriate feedback to students, their parents, and colleagues.
- Communicate regularly with the relevant people (learning support specialists, counselors, principals, and parents) about student progress.
- Establish and enforce school rules for students with a positive style and strong classroom management skills.
- Attend school, department, team, and parent meetings.
- Participate in required non-classroom activities, including Back to School Night(s), parent/student conferences, retreats, faculty and Centner meetings, field trips, and special activities and performance events.
- Maintain knowledge of and competency in relevant classroom technology and have a passion for recent developments in teaching resources and methods with the flexibility to incorporate changes into instructional plans and activities.
- Be strictly vigilant about student health and safety.
- Fulfill other responsibilities as assigned by the Centner administration.
Essential skills and experience
- Hold a master’s degree or equivalent experience in English or a related field from an accredited college or university with teaching credentials.
- Have 2-3 years in a lead teacher role, preferably in Language Arts at the high school level.
- Strong communication skills (oral and written).
- Deep dedication to learning and developing as an educator.
- Collaborative work style paired with the ability to take initiative.
- Strong classroom management skills and expertise in differentiating instruction.
Nonessential skills and experience
- Eagerness to learn new technology and systems.
- Strong understanding of teaching through a balanced literacy approach.
- Experience with a problem-solving and discussion-based approach.
- Strong analytical abilities and enthusiasm for data-driven instruction.
- Very resourceful and adaptive, eager to embrace change, growth, and learning.
- Experience working closely with diverse families.
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