MS ELA Teacher

Position Details

• Position Type: K-8 Teaching / Middle Level (Grades 6-8)
• Date Posted: 3/4/2026
• Location:
  
  Johns Hill Magnet School
• Date Available:
  
  ASAP

Certified Secondary Teacher

• Illinois State certificate in the teaching field qualifying the teacher to teach at the secondary level.
• Bachelor's Degree
• Ability to function effectively as a member of the school staff.
• Other requirements as may be established by the Board.

Reports to:

The Secondary Building Principal

• Students
• Student Teachers
• Volunteers
• Assists the Principal with the evaluation of Teaching Assistants

Maintains liaison with parents. Communicates with parents as the teacher deems necessary, or when requested by parents or administrators.

To help students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their development as mature, able, and responsible men and women.

The major instructional function of the secondary classroom teacher includes:

• Instructional Delivery – Includes understanding and the ability to use the principles of learning (motivation, reinforcement, retention, transfer) and the ability to make sound judgments about instructional techniques such as pacing, questioning, grouping, actively involving students, and directly vs. indirectly instructing the students.
• Human Skills – Includes the ability to stimulate students, bring enthusiasm to the learning process, and provide concern and care for the worth and dignity of the individual.
• Planning Skills – Includes the ability to develop goals/objectives for content/skills based upon evaluation of student needs, aptitude, and learning styles. Provision for both individual and group learning experience is involved.
• Evaluation of Students and Programs – Includes the ability to construct and use diagnostic, criterion reference and student achievement tests. Evaluation also encompasses the maintenance and interpretation of records for students, parents, administrators, and other teachers.
• Classroom Management – Includes controlling and structuring the learning environment so that students adhere to rules and providing opportunities for students to acquire the self‑discipline necessary in school and adult life.
• Resource Utilization – Includes the ability to use the resource materials available – including academic and human resources – within and outside the confines of the educational plant.

Salary is based upon Schedules A & B, of the collective negotiated Agreement.

Each employee in contractual continuing service shall be evaluated at least once every two (2) years. Each employee not in continuing contractual service shall be evaluated once every year.

Handle work which deals mostly with people, objects, equipment in a general setting; depth perception and field of vision are important. Employee regularly is required to bend, stoop, twist, turn, reach, lift (up to 50 pounds), carry, pull, push, climb, and kneel; walking and standing approximately 50‑75% of each shift. Employee must recognize differences in sound, such as voices/noises that are loud and playful instead of angry and combative;

ability to differentiate tones and volumes in conversation.

The Teacher must ensure that children are supervised at all times, and that children are involved in safe and appropriate activities. There may be a number of situations happening at once, and…