What are the responsibilities and job description for the Middle School & High School ELA Teacher position at Highspeed Staffing?
Job Description
Job Description
Position : Middle School & High School ELA Teacher
Location : Miami, FL
Duration : Full-Time
Salary : DOE
Job description
The client is seeking an energetic and creative Middle School & High School Language Arts Teacher to join our growing faculty for the 2025-2026 school year. Must be comfortable being in person on campus with students.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a Language Arts curriculum that focuses on developing strong readers, writers, and critical thinkers and exposes students to a range of literature representing diverse backgrounds, cultures, and voices.
- Support 8th grade students in their high school exploration, including writing letters of recommendation.
- Develop and implement a culturally responsive curriculum for either a middle school and high school arts elective or middle school and high school advisory class for students at varying levels of progress from grades 6 through 12. This includes creating schemes of work and lesson plans, identifying, and selecting instructional resources and methods to meet students needs, and preparing the classroom for activities.
- Collaborate with colleagues on curriculum development and on enhancing instructional practices and strategies.
- Regularly assess students progress by observing and evaluating performance and development, assigning and grading classwork, homework, tests, and assignments and providing appropriate feedback to students, their parents and colleagues.
- Communicate regularly with the relevant people (learning support specialist, counselor, principals, and parents) about student progress.
- Establish and enforce school rules for students with a positive style and strong classroom management skills.
- Attend school, department, team, and parent meetings.
- Participate in required non-classroom activities, including Back to School Night(s), parent / student conferences, retreats, faculty and meetings, field trips, and special activities and performance events.
- Maintain knowledge of and competency in relevant classroom technology and have a passion for recent developments in teaching resources and methods with the flexibility to incorporate changes into instructional plans and activities.
- Be strictly vigilant about student health and safety.
- Fulfill other responsibilities as assigned by the school administration.
Essential skills and experience
Nonessential skills and experience
