Middle school teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Middle school teacher in details. A complete job description concludes Middle school teacher key duties/responsibilities, Middle school teacher job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of Middle school teacher duties:

1. Customize curriculum, using The Big History Project as a spring board, and align key references and questions for focus through discussion and collaboration with the other middle school teacher. As appropriate, leverage rich and varied resources for inventing interdisciplinary, project-based classroom learning.
2. Together with the current middle school teacher, create and customize Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) which drive goal setting and learning strategies and lend focus and priorities for each student throughout the year.
3. Adapt classroom activities and strategies to differentiate for each student’s needs, capacities, and interests; understand and support each learner’s strengths and style, and foster a setting in which they can each be their best self, while also progressing in areas of relative weakness.
4. Plan and lead a daily math group, leveraging and customizing curricula appropriately. We have an ability based math block with average class size of 7 students per class.
5. Collaborate with all teachers. Share and listen. Leverage teachers’ and parents’ knowledge across the whole school to serve students as a community, and to continuously improve as a school and as professionals.
6. Collaborate with a rich pool of scientific researchers in the greater Boston academic and medical community to bring their expertise, mentorship, and ideas to life in the classroom with students.
7. Apply an eclectic blend of learning pedagogy, including teaching for understanding, multiage, thematic, interdisciplinary, experiential, and projects.
8. Partner in-class learning experiences with computer-based courseware that can be self paced and leveraged at school and as homework.
9. Technological fluency – preferably in a Mac platform – is expected so that technology can be an integrated tool in the classroom.
10. Use a ‘teacher as facilitator’ style. This is not a traditional “in-charge teacher who dispenses the knowledge” approach. Our teachers serve as facilitators who enable student learning in a way customized for student abilities and interests.
11. Cover recess and lunch 1x / week
12. Be proactive to get what you need to be successful by leveraging the extended Acera community and its collaborators.
13. Embrace our parent collaborative educational model; communicate openly, with honesty and compassion. Share teaching philosophy and pedagogical beliefs; educate parents.
14. Take initiative, be inventive, ask for help, and suggest novel approaches
15. Leverage a positive, responsive classroom type management style with students, emphasizing student engagement and voice as a key strategy to manage classrooms.

II. List of Middle school teacher qualifications

1. Bachelor degree in science
2. Masters degree or other training in education a bonus but not required
3. 2 – 7 years of teaching experience
4. Experience with gifted education, special education, progressive learning approaches and/or a goal for understanding orientation (instead of a focus on core knowledge acquisition) is highly preferred.
5. Proven ability to lead and contribute to a high-performing team, along with strong communication and interpersonal skills
6. Excellent self management and executive functioning skills
7. Training and confidence in all STEM areas (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Versatility across multiple scientific fields.
8. A personal background as a student who was or would have been identified for gifted education programming themselves enables our teachers to relate to the unique challenges, depth of inquiry and needs of gifted students.

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.