DK-Guidance Counselor

DK-8 Guidance Counselor

Teach Iowa Akron Westfield Comm School District - Akron, Iowa Open in Google Maps

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Job : 5561303

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Mar 02, 2026 12:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Aug 17, 2026

The Akron-Westfield CSD has a full-time opening starting August, 2026 for a High School Spanish Teacher.

Basic Function: To provide an educational environment to develop skills needed to be responsible life‑long learners and citizens. To assist and ensure that every student achieves his/her level of educational excellence in the areas of academic, career, and social/emotional development through collaborative partnership with students, family, educators and community.

• Demonstrates ability to enhance academic performance and support for implementation of the school district student achievement goals.
• Provides evidence of student learning to students, families, and staff.
• Implements strategies supporting student, building, and district goals.
• Uses student performance data as a guide for decision‑making.
• Accepts and demonstrates responsibility for creating a classroom culture that supports the learning of every student.
• Creates an environment of mutual respect, rapport, and fairness.
• Participates in and contributes to a school culture that focuses on improved student learning.
• Communicates with students, families, colleagues, and communities effectively and accurately.
• Demonstrates competence in content knowledge appropriate to the teaching position.
• Understands and uses key concepts, underlying themes, relationships, and different perspectives related to the content area.
• Uses knowledge of student development to make learning experiences in the content area meaningful and accessible for every student.
• Relates ideas and information within and across content areas.
• Understands and uses instructional strategies that are appropriate to the content area.
• Demonstrates competence in planning and preparing for instruction.
• Utilizes student achievement data, local standards, and the district curriculum in planning for instruction.
• Sets and communicates high expectations for social, behavioral, and academic success of all students.
• Uses students' developmental needs, background, and interests in planning for instruction.
• Selects strategies to engage all students in learning.
• Uses available resources, including technologies, in the development and sequencing of instruction.
• Uses strategies to deliver instruction that meet the multiple learning needs of students.
• Aligns classroom instruction with local standards and district curriculum.
• Uses research‑based instructional strategies that address the full range of cognitive levels.
• Demonstrates flexibility and responsiveness in adjusting instruction to meet student needs.
• Engages students in varied experiences that meet diverse needs and promote social, emotional, and academic growth.
• Connects students' prior knowledge, life experiences, and interests in the instructional process.
• Uses available resources, including technologies, in the delivery of instruction.
• Uses a variety of methods to monitor student learning.
• Aligns classroom assessment with instruction.
• Communicates assessment criteria and standards to all students and parents.
• Understands and uses the results of multiple assessments to guide planning and instruction.
• Guides students in goal setting and assessing their own learning.
• Provides substantive, timely, and constructive feedback to students and parents.
• Works with other staff and building and district leadership in analysis of student progress.
• Demonstrates competence in classroom management.
• Creates a learning community that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement, and self‑regulation for every student.
• Establishes, communicates, models, and maintains standards of responsible student behavior.
• Develops and implements classroom procedures and routines that support high expectations for learning.
• Uses instructional time effectively to maximize student achievement.
• Creates a safe and purposeful learning…