7/8th Grade Ela Teacher, #711: Ingenium Charter

Middle School 7th/8th Grade ELA Teacher

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Job Title**: Middle School ELA Teacher **Schedule**: 40 hrs/week minimum

**Job Type**: Full-Time **FLSA Status**:Exempt

**Reports to**:Principal **Pay**:$62,235, starting (DOE), Salary Scale

**Special**:Onsite position; Requires weekend

work, nights and early mornings, as needed

**ABOUT INGENIUM SCHOOLS**
- Ingenium Schools is transforming education by restoring joy and meaning to learning. Since 2009, Ingenium Schools has helped students build confidence, leadership, and a lifelong love of learning with the Ingenium Learning System, an easily replicable, standards-based educational model that promotes personal mastery. Ingenium Schools currently operates several charter schools, serving students throughout Los Angeles._

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Teaching at Ingenium means you are part of a family. Building relationships with students, families, and each other is essential to our work. Teachers regularly communicate and collaborate in grade level, department, and school teams as well as with families to support all students’ academic, behavioral, and social-emotional success.

Teaching at Ingenium means empowering oneself and others. We believe that when learners are encouraged to take ownership over their educational experience, they attain higher levels of meaning and joy. Learners are supported in analyzing data and setting goals to work on continually improving individual, small group, class, grade-level, department, and school performance.

Teaching at Ingenium means serving diverse communities and student groups. Ingenium teachers acknowledge the strengths of the school communities they serve and incorporate culturally responsive teaching into their practice. An Ingenium teacher modifies and differentiates to meet the needs of students with varying backgrounds, learning styles, and special needs.

**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & JOB DUTIES**:
Duties include, but are not limited to:
KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
- Support the mission, vision, and core values of Ingenium Schools
- Strive to implement, by instruction and action, Ingenium Schools’ philosophy of education and instructional goals and objectives
- Continuously maintain and improve professional competence
- Attend mandatory trainings, professional meetings, and educational conferences, as required

CLASSROOM CULTURE
- Encourage students to set and maintain minimum standards of classroom behavior, measuring progress through individual and class goal setting
- Create a safe, developmentally appropriate classroom environment conducive to learning and based on student interests and goals
- Implement and support school/organizational policies governing student life and conduct

ACADEMIC
- Instruct students individually and in groups using various teaching methods: lecture, discussion, demonstration, student-led instruction, etc.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ differing needs and interests
- Prepare and implement intervention programs for students requiring extra help
- In harmony with curriculum goals, establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students daily
- Prepare materials and classroom for class activities
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, and guide students in learning from activities

DATA DRIVEN
- Consistently and accurately observe and assess students’ performance, behavior, social development, and physical health, both formally and informally, through observation, authentic performance, and written evaluation
- Provide frequent and timely feedback to students and parents on student progress
- Recommend resources to parents for additional student growth
- Timely deliver accurate and complete written and oral progress reports
- Maintain and accurate and complete student records as required by law and Ingenium Schools’ policies
- Maintain student confidentiality

COLLABORATION
- Confer with students and parents outside of the instructional day to resolve students’ behavioral and/or academic issues, as needed
- Maintain and improve professional competence and participate in professional development opportunities
- Actively participate in team meetings and serve on staff committees, school-wide events, parent workshops, and community partnership events
- Assist with school/organizational events, general supervision, extra-curricular support, tutoring, etc., as needed
- Perform related duties as assigned

**KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES**

KNOWLEDGE OF:

- Highly effective teaching strategies for all student subgroups
- California Common Core State Standards curriculum and instruction
- Principles and methods of curriculum design
- Effective measurements of learning/assessments, including diagnostic, formative and summative, performance tasks and project evaluation
- English language, including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar
- Mathematics, including arithmeti