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NEOGOV · 5 months ago

Middle School Math Teacher, Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired

Baton Rouge, LA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

2+ years exp

NEOGOV is seeking a Middle School Math Teacher for the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, part of the Louisiana Special School District. The role involves creating rigorous lesson plans, fostering a positive classroom environment, and supporting students with diverse learning needs, particularly those who are blind or visually impaired.

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Responsibilities

Plan rigorous lessons aligned to the Early Childhood Standards, Louisiana State Standards and the school’s internal curriculum to align all of your planning

Utilize curriculum assessments at the daily, weekly, and unit level to measure what your students learned: Daily Exit Tickets (formative) to know if you were successful in teaching that day; Weekly or Unit Assessments (summative) to assess students learning. For each assessment, create your ideal student response or mastery response, clearly defining the bar of rigor your students must reach

Utilize curriculum summative assessments to test overall mastery at the unit level that align to the end of year assessment for your course

Know your content deeply. Ensure lessons demonstrate your knowledge and passion for your content. Lessons must drive mastery and investment in your content from every student you teach

Ensure your students know that you believe in them, and they know what you expect from them and why

Create a classroom culture where 100% of your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking at every moment throughout your lesson

Create and leverage a classroom narrative along with the school system of positive behavior support and positive discipline to build strong and positive student identities. Use praise and recognition to ensure your students know what you value. Use corrections and consequences to teach expected behavior while holding students accountable to high standards

Build relationships with students that let them know you care about them as individuals. Leverage those relationships to push your students to the highest heights academically and as people

Use Restorative Approaches with every student when approaching corrections and consequences. Work hard to keep your students in class and only send a child out when he or she needs time to step back, re-center, or reflect on something that needs improvement behaviorally

Incorporate best practices received in trainings on social and emotional learning for students and model the use of these strategies

Check in with students monthly to support positive student relationships and to identify potential concerns. For example, attendance, grades, discipline and other concerns

Ensure regular communication every month with parents, so they also know you are invested in their child

Execute the lessons you have planned with fidelity and at the highest level, ensuring 100% of your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking at every moment

Bring passion, joy, and energy to your execution. Ensure students reflect the level of passion, joy and energy you feel because of your execution

Gather data throughout your lesson to ensure students at all levels in your classroom are mastering the material. Use these Checks for Understanding to pivot your lesson in the moment

Ensure your lessons drive towards both mastery of the Exit Ticket for that day and mastery in the larger themes of your unit: The Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions

Reflect on your data daily to know what your students learned and what they didn’t learn. Make a plan to fill in those gaps the following day and retest later on

Teach to the diverse learning needs of every student you teach. Take action on and responsibility for every student in your classroom regardless of incoming achievement level or diverse learning needs

Plan and execute strong Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions within the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework to ensure every child can master the material in your class every day

Use relevant instructional techniques and technologies for the visually impaired student

Track data to assess the efficacy of your interventions. If interventions aren’t working, find new interventions to test out to ensure all students are growing as fast as possible towards their goals

Ensure all students have high quality accommodations and modifications in place to meet their unique needs

Commit to a minimum of one hour, two days per week of tutoring. Additional compensation will be paid for actual hours spent tutoring

Actively participate in all team meetings including but not limited to: our daily Morning Meeting, Weekly Grade Level and/or Department meetings, Professional Development, Network Wide Data Days on a quarterly basis, and Monthly Professional Learning Community meetings

Collaborate with others to drive the success of your grade level and school

Seek solutions to problems you see constantly. Constantly look across the school and ask yourself, “How can our school be better tomorrow?

Proactively propose solutions and ideas to improve the school

Qualification

Louisiana teaching certificateTeacher of Visually Impaired certificationBraille proficiency2+ years teaching experienceContent areaPositive attitudeWork ethicPersonal initiativeDesire to grow

Required

Deep belief that all students, regardless of their backgrounds and educational pasts, have the potential to succeed in college, career, and beyond, and that it is the responsibility of schools to help students realize that potential

Louisiana teaching certificate, 2+ years of teaching experience, preferably working with students from similar backgrounds to LSVI students

Demonstrates Braille proficiency with passing score on the National Certification Unified English Braille (NCUEB)

Desire to work at a college and career prep school rebuilding education for blind and visually impaired students

Desire to grow as a teacher and face the challenges that come with deep reflection and direct feedback on your classroom practices

Positive attitude and strong work ethic. Ability to constantly find joy in the successes and challenges of our work. Ability to demonstrate that joy towards students, families, and teammates

Personal initiative to better yourself and those around you. Drive to actively pursue excellence in everything you do, even when not given direct coaching

Strong knowledge in content area of choice, demonstrated through lesson planning, execution, and intervention with all students

Strong desire to participate in all school activities, including extracurricular activities, clubs, sports, school health and wellness activities, and other activities and events that promote school identity and culture

Effective rating measured using the Compass observation and goal setting cycle and tools, which includes measures of setting instructional outcomes, managing classroom procedures, questioning and discussion techniques, engaging students in learning, using assessment in instruction, and measurable student learning targets