History Teacher

JobID: 5491

**Position Type**:
High School Teaching/Social Studies**Date Posted**:
5/10/2024**Location**:
Copper Canyon HS**Closing Date**:
Until Filled

Purpose
- The job of the Teacher responsibilities includes helping students develop an awareness and appreciation of learning and academic achievement. The teacher must incorporate the responsibilities of the District Strategic Plan of preparing students for college, career, and life-ready situations, communication, and partnerships, and creating a highly effective work force. The teacher must be a relationship builder, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be well trained in content knowledge and teaching strategies including the use of primary sources and inquiry-based instruction.
- Qualifications
- Required:
- Proficiency in their performance in each of the following teacher competency standards:- Design and Plans Instruction.-
- Creates and Maintains a Learning Climate.-
- Implements and Manages Instruction.-
- Assesses Learning and Communicates Results.-
- Collaborates with Colleagues, Parents, and Others.-
- Engages in Professional Development and Responsibilities.-
- Valid AZ Department of Public Safety (DPS) Identity Verified Print (IVP) Fingerprint Clearance Card.- Preferred:
- Endorsements in any related field.-
- Teaching experience in a secondary educational setting.- 8. Bilingual in English and Spanish.
- Essential Functions- Teacher will create and deliver curriculum that creates and maintains a positive learning climate that incorporates rigor and relevance.-
- Teacher will plan, develop, and execute lesson plans and provide instruction for individual students, small groups, and remedial instruction to meet the needs of identified students or subgroups of students.-
- Teacher will assess student learning by using a variety of appropriate formal and informal methods.-
- Applies knowledge of best practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment, and methods of supporting and extending instruction and student learning.-
- Teacher's services shall include the preparation and correction of examinations, proctoring, and substitution.-
- Teacher will assess student learning to inform their instruction.-
- Applies knowledge of school law and district policy.-
- Teacher’s services shall also include the customary conferences with students and parents; individual guidance of students; service on faculty committees; active service in studying departmental and School problems; preparation of syllabi; attendance at commencement, faculty meetings and other School functions; and such other professional services as in the judgment of the Principal, the needs of the School shall require.-
- Teachers are expected to participate in appropriate professional development activities in order to stay current in their assigned teaching fields, program and discipline, as well as in the delivery of remote learning.-
- Attendance at professional development days as determined by the Principal or District is mandatory. Professional development days may be scheduled prior to the first day of classes and during the school year.-
- Teachers are expected to provide synchronous and asynchronous remote learning instruction when directed by the Principal or District, or per teaching assignment.Participate in student study teams, 504 planning, and IEP process as needed.-
- Teachers are expected to manage daily, the recording and publishing of student attendance and grading system on the district approved platform.-
- Participate in the communication of policies as a member of the certified instruction team and communicate school and District programs, policies, and procedures to students, staff, parents, and community, as directed by the Principal or District official.-
- Assists in safety inspections and safety drill practice activities/safety plan preparation.-
- Participates in delivery of Site testing.-
- Proctor all state and school-based assessments and site testing (i.e., District Assessments/PSAT/Pre-ACT/ACT/ASVAB/Advanced Placement/and SAT).-
- Participate in campus/district departmental meetings for the purpose of developing a stronger department.-
- Participate in Professional Development/Professional Learning Communities (PLC), New Staff Orientation (as applicable): to provide exceptional student achievement; to establish the foundations for successful classrooms: ambitious vision and goals, purposeful long-term plans and unit plans, rigorous assessments, strong relationships, and positive classroom cultures.-
- Use student data to inform decision making, to develop and modify curriculum, and to develop targeted and differentiated instruction (interventions/enrichment).-
- Teacher will implement district adopted curricular resources.-
- Assist with the creation, completion, and presentation of school reports, as well as required reports for the district.-
- Determine the need for curricular materials, assessment materials, and instruction