7th Grade ELAR Teacher

MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM PHILOSOPHY:

St. Rita Catholic Schools Middle School Program guides students by nurturing their capacity for selfreliance selfadvocacy and selfdiscipline in an environment that values equally the development of mind heart and body. Adolescence is a time of growth curiosity and new challenges. Our program combines a continued focus on foundational principles with the expectation that students pursue their unique interests and develop more independent learning. Our advisory program is a central component of middle school students success. We assign each student a faculty member to help guide the students academic career and personal development during the middle school years. The advisory program provides students with personalized assistance a forum to share their ideas and experiences and an authentic opportunity to learn from their peers. By the end of eighth grade St. Rita Catholic School students have developed a strong core. Their strong core is rooted in virtues and morals in which education can take root and become a pathway to intellectual spiritual and transformational growth during their high school years.

TEAM ASSIGNMENT:Seventh/ Eighth Grade Teaching Team

LOCATION:7/8th Grade Heaney Building

MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM POSITION EXPECTATIONS:

St. Rita Catholic School offers our middle school students a modified block learning schedule. We offer 80minute classes every day to our ELAR and Math students. ELAR teachers provide learning experiences that offer: choice in reading materials differentiated pathways of student success ability and cluster grouping for learning activities and individualized writing conferences for students. Math teachers provide learning experiences that teach real comprehension of mathematical concepts that avoid merely teaching math tricks. Our math classes are designed around conceptual understanding fluency problem solving reasoning and an understanding of concepts and skills that translates through St. Ritas Mathematics Program. We schedule 40minute classes every day to our religion Spanish social studies and science students with the option of blocking a class for extended time. Teachers design small and large group instruction that is differentiated and active. With the help of ELAR and math instructional learning specialists teachers incorporate pushin and pullout methodology to ensure mastery and enrichment of content.

Teachers collaborate both vertically and horizontally within their teaching teams to sequentially and logically build upon knowledge as students progress from the fifth through the eighth grades.

MIDDLE SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Utilizing The College and Heaven Standards set forth by the Diocese of Dallas middle school teachers will create and provide experiences and activities that challenge all learners and set high standards for achievement. Middle school instructors lead students to dig deeper into fields of interest and to increase student ownership of their learning.

• Design and deliver differentiated instruction that is based on data and addresses the following questions:
• What does a student know
• What is a student able to do
• How will the student demonstrate mastery
• How will the instructor reteach unmastered material
• How will the instructor respond when a student already knows the material
• Utilize both whole group and small group instructional methods with flexible grouping for targeted improvement
• Instruct literacy and math in active learning blocks involving instructional specialists for pushin and pullout work
• Instruct Spanish religion social studies and science with the opportunity to use longer blocks of learning conducive to active learning projects research and extension activities
• Share the values and beliefs of our Catholic faith
• Assist students to create shortterm and longterm learning goals
• Participate and collaborate as a member of a teaching team and a content (vertically and horizontally)