2627 | Middle School Social Studies Teacher

A Legacy teacher works to create and enhance a culture of achievement and respect where high expectations and results are the norm. All teachers are responsible for demonstrating significant and measurable academic gains, each year, with the students they teach. All teachers’ actions must always be aligned with our mission, vision, core values, and education program. The essential functions of our lead teachers are as follows:

I. Instructional vision

• Planning for instruction
• Use the state standards to create rigorous, objective-driven, lessons aligned with curriculum maps; complete standards deconstructions
• Develop an academic calendar with mastery objectives for the year that ensures that critical knowledge and skills are taught throughout the year
• Identify in each lesson what thinking skills will be explicitly taught, practiced, and made visible; what physical, social, or content skills students will be able to do and how students will know if they can do it.
• Differentiate for individual students based on their unique learning needs so all students are appropriately engaged and challenged.
• Ensure students are engaged through activities and technology that accommodate various learning styles, personality styles, and the need for physical movement.
• Develop high-quality student work and complete intellectual preparation (ex. Develop criteria for success, exemplar student responses, thinking steps/think aloud)

• Ii. Delivery of instruction
• Explicitly introduce mastery objectives to activate students’ prior knowledge related to the objectives, and conclude the lesson by revisiting the learning objective and having students apply it in context.
• Practice think-aloud for each daily lesson
• Present academic content through a variety of instructional strategies to reach all learners.
• Provide many and varied opportunities for students to practice while working to promote achievement by all students without exception.

• Iii. Data-Driven instruction
• Develop standards-aligned, measurable, ambitious big goals that will increase student opportunities for achievement; assess and track performance against these goals.
• Measure student achievement of and progress toward, the mastery objectives and big goals with formative and summative assessment tools.
• Provide ongoing and timely feedback to students on their progress toward meeting big goals by frequently checking for understanding and listening.