POSITION

.5 EL Teacher for the ACE Program

JOB GOAL

The ACE Program at Barnstable High School provides a structured, interdisciplinary, trauma-sensitive environment with a work component for students who will thrive in a supportive small community. The EL Teacher will help students learn subject matter, skills, attitudes and appreciations that are appropriate to their individual needs and levels of learning, and which will contribute to their development as mature, able and responsible men and women.

REPORTS TO

ACE Program Director

QUALIFICATIONS

Appropriate MA State Licensure

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Design engaging, student-centered learning opportunities that build core academic, critical thinking, and/or creative skills, engage with real-world issues and challenges. 2. To help students learn subject matter, skills, attitudes and appreciations that are appropriate to their individual needs and levels of learning while helping students to discover and develop their special talents. 3. Provide personalized academic supports that meet students where they are and challenge them to move toward their learning edges, including but not limited to differentiating instruction, working directly with students to identify their needs and interests, following IEPs, and meeting EL needs 4. Create classroom environments that foster mutual respect, collaborative learning, and positive behaviors 5. Address behavior and disciplinary issues in accordance with ACE Program policies and procedures 6. Participate in creation and sustaining or a responsive, trauma-sensitive, asset-based, affirming, celebratory school culture and community 7. Model ACE Program values at all times; 8. Uphold all relevant ACE Program, BHS and district policies fairly and consistently; 9. Input all required data in a timely fashion, including but not limited to attendance, grades, and discipline data; 10. Other duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Typical office conditions: sitting, bending, stooping, filing, occasional lifting of up to 25 pounds of office supplies/files. Close vision at or correctable to normal range.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

Per BTA Contract Multi-lingual candidates are encouraged to apply Barnstable Public Schools is an EOE and strongly encourages minority candidates to apply. Posted until filled