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SalaryPurpose: The AVID Elective Teacher is a skilled educator grounded in relationships. The AVID elective curriculum features writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, reading, notetaking, and study skills.
Reports To: Patton Jr. High Principal
Required Qualifications: Qualified candidates must currently hold a valid Kansas teaching license, or be reasonably assured of holding a Kansas teaching license with the appropriate subject area endorsement prior to July 1, 2024, to be eligible for consideration.
Essential Functions: To perform the responsibilities and roles of a Secondary AVID Elective Teacher successfully, an individual must be able to:
- Collaborate with stakeholders (AVID students, AVID parents, AVID counselors, the AVID coordinator, the AVID administrator, and teachers) to develop an AVID program.
- Establish and maintain high expectations for AVID students’ achievement.
- Collect and analyze AVID student data and regularly monitor AVID students’ academic progress.
- Teach and promote the use of WICOR instructional strategies across content areas.
- Share and model AVID methodologies with colleagues.
- Participate in ongoing AVID professional learning.
Preferred Characteristics:
- Experience in research-based instructional practices that will effectively and efficiently support learning.
- Knowledge of reading, writing, literacy, and/or mathematics at the junior high school level.
- Well-respected teacher leader who uses data to inform instruction.
- Builds strong relationships with teachers across campus.
- Culturally responsive practitioner who is committed to eliminating opportunity disparities.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time
- Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
- Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone
- Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone
- Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach overhead
Terms of Employment: At-will employment. Salary and work schedule as determined by the Board and the Negotiated Agreement.
Ft Leavenworth USD 207 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in
recruitment, hiring, training, or promoting on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or
ancestry, sex, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender
identity or any other legally protected status under local, state or federal law.
