Teacher Language Arts - Grade 8
Listed on 2026-01-24
-
Education / Teaching
Special Education Teacher, Online Teaching, Elementary School, Academic
- Position Type:
Teachers/ Tchr Language Arts - Date Posted: 1/13/2026
- Location:
Radloff Middle - Date Available:
01/26/2026
License and Certification
Qualifications:
Meets Georgia certification requirements in appropriate field of education.
Education
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in applicable field of education from a Professional Standards Commission (PSC) approved college or university required.
Experience
Qualifications:
Previous teaching experience preferred.
Skills
Qualifications:
Knowledge of Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) Academic Knowledge and Skills (AKS) curriculum with in-depth knowledge of content in field of certification; knowledge of techniques for integrating curriculum, GCPS policies, and effective instructional practices; ability to understand the teaching/learning process; ability to infuse technology into instruction to increase student learning; ability to work effectively with administrators, colleagues, central office, and school based staff, students, parents, and community;
excellent oral and written communication skills; and effective human relations skills.
Primary Responsibilities:
Plan for appropriate learning experiences for students based on the district AKS curriculum and provide an atmosphere and environment conducive to the intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of students.
- Identify specific prerequisite skills and/or knowledge necessary for students to learn the AKS.
- Plan instruction as needed to promote student mastery of prerequisite skills and knowledge.
- Analyze student work and assessments to determine instructional needs.
- Prepare written lesson plans to support instructional objectives of the AKS for all students.
- Plan appropriate assessment of student learning.
- Review resources including district core materials.
- Select core materials and other resources that match the AKS.
- Select resources that match the learner(s) needs.
- Select resources that reflect scientifically-based research on effective instruction.
- Communicate specific learning objectives to students.
- Link lesson content to students? prior knowledge, background experience, and/or real-world application of content.
- Capture student attention through active involvement.
- Present information in a logical sequence.
- Organize the presentation of content into blocks or steps based on the students? needs and the complexity of the material.
- Follow research-based organizational plan for content organization, such as anticipatory set, acquisition lesson, guided practice, independent practice, and summarizing.
- Utilize scientifically researched effective instructional strategies and methods of providing information for students to acquire the learning.
- Assess students? learning of the AKS and provide specific feedback to students and parents.
- Provide collaborative learning opportunities to enhance student achievement.
- Provide multiple opportunities for distributed guided practice followed by independent practice.
- Teach essential content-related vocabulary.
- Utilize a variety of nonverbal/visual representations of content and skills.
- Teach students to summarize their learning.
- Teach skills for improving reading and writing proficiency/literacy across content areas.
- Access and/or build students? background knowledge and experience.
- Utilize and teach questioning and cuing/prompting techniques.
- Utilize technology effectively to plan, teach, and assess.
- Utilize inquiry-based problem-solving learning strategies with students in all content areas.
- Teach and require students to set personal goals for improving their academic achievement.
- Teach students to compare and contrast knowledge, concepts, and content.
- Provide formative assessment that measures student progress toward AKS objectives.
- Monitor students? progress in learning through a variety of techniques.
- Adjust instructional plans based on formative assessment results.
- Provide criteria that allow students to measure their own progress toward an objective.
- Provide summative assessment that measures student achievement of objectives.
- Assess students' learning of the AKS.
- Provide assessments that are appropriate for the learner(s).
- Maintain assessment records for each student.
- Communicate assessment results to student.
- Utilize assessment results to plan for subsequent instruction.
- Organize learning environment to maximize student time on task.
- Organize and arrange classroom to facilitate learning.
- Ensure smooth transitions from one activity to another.
- Maintain an orderly system for housekeeping duties including attendance, passes, announcements, distributing and collecting materials, and homework assignments.
- Maintain behavior that is conducive to learning.
- Define and communicate behavior expectations to students.
- Monitor behavior and provide appropriate feedback to students.
- Manage inappropriate behavior effectively.
- Focus on student behavior rather than personality.
- Treat sensitive situations with discretion.
- Encourage participation from all students.
- Establish…
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).