Science Intervention Teacher

JobID: 2302

**Position Type**:
High School Teaching/Science**Date Posted**:
4/19/2024**Location**:
Highland Park High School**Position Title**: Science Intervention Teacher - 0.25 FTE MTSS Interventionist (Science) 2024-25 School Year
**Department**: Science
**Reports To**: Department Chair, MTSS Coordinator, Assistant Principal
**Building**: Highland Park High School
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**SUMMARY**:
**BACKGROUND**:
The Tier 2 MTSS team will proactively identify students who need additional support in school to obtain their full potential based on varying factors. The team will utilize progress monitoring throughout the year to provide timely preventive support to students for whom tier 1 is not meeting their needs.
Drawing from the literature and experiences at other districts and our own district, this team will coordinate a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) effort. The team will provide needed academic and social-emotional support to 9th and 12th-grade students, focusing on (1) team-driven shared leadership; (2) data-based problem solving and decision-making; (3) family, school, and community partnering; (4) a layered continuum of supports; (5) and evidence-based practices. This work will be driven by the MTSS team and tightly integrated into existing departments and course teams. Existing Department Chairs will oversee aspects of this work relevant to their departments.
The Assistant Principal of DEI and MTSS Coordinator will lead this work. Each week, they will convene a meeting of all interventionists (such as the interventionists in mathematics, science, humanities, and student services) to review data and ensure each student is getting the support they need to be successful.
Each interventionist will be a member of the key course teams and will work with their course team and department colleagues to provide additional instructional support to needed students, via pull-out, or push-in services, or more intensive interventions.
Each interventionist will also serve on the larger MTSS team with our Tier 1 support services such as instructional coaching, mentoring and professional development, and the district-wide information technology office in order to review system-wide data for trends to inform the work of our Tier 1 providers.
**SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Supervise classroom, students, and teacher aides.
**QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS**:
The teacher must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
**EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE**:
Required
- Minimum of a Bachelor of Arts degree from four year college or university. Minimum three years’ successful teaching experience preferred.

**LICENSES & REGISTRATIONS**:
Required:

- Valid Illinois Professional Educator License with appropriate endorsements. The applicant must be endorsed to teach Physics, Chemistry, and/or Biology.
- Multiple science endorsements preferred.
- License registered with Lake County ROE 34

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
The District 113 Teacher’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Meeting and instructing assigned classes in the locations and at the time assigned.
- Planning and delivering curriculum and instruction which meets the individual and collective needs, interests, and abilities of the students; is informed by recent research about how students learn; and is aligned with established learning standards.
- Implement, by instruction and action, the District and school’s vision of education and of Equity.
- Enact all curriculum, instructional methodology, and common assessments in accordance with the curriculum matrix, curriculum map and the course team’s instructional goals.
- Creating a classroom environment that is warm, supportive, intellectual, and responsive; conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students.
- Through lesson and unit design and classroom culture, demonstrate an understanding of, respect for, and willingness to learn more about the different backgrounds, cultures, assets, and experiences within the District 113 community.
- Developing and enforcing reasonable rules of classroom behavior and procedure and maintaining order in a fair and consistent manner; implementing a Positive Behavior Intervention and Support process.
- Guiding the learning process toward the achievement of curriculum goals, establishing clear objectives for all learning activities, and communicating these objectives to students.
- Assessing the accomplishments of students on a regular basis and providing progress reports as required.
- Working cooperatively with other school personnel in the identification, education, and remediation of individual students, including but not exclusively, to those with specialized n