7th Grade Teacher (Literacy and Social Studies)

Sun Prairie, WI (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelInternship

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Own a mission to create equitable, standards-aligned classrooms that nurture every learner’s growth, combining safe environments with responsive instruction, diverse perspectives, and formative feedback to drive student agency.

  • Responsibilities: Build an inclusive, culturally responsive learning community and deliver curriculum that adapts to meet diverse needs while guiding students through productive, standards-aligned challenges.
  • Workstreams: collaborative planning with specialists to tailor instruction; formative assessment to inform feedback; and designing equitable, accessible learning experiences.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create Emotionally, Intellectually, and Physically Safe Environments
  • Create positive relationships that are kind, caring, and respectful
  • Nurture self-awareness, identity development, and sense of purpose
  • Emphasize effort, supported risk-taking, and strategies for emotional growth
  • Support safe and engaged interactions with co-created procedures, routines, and classroom design
  • Encourage developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant strategies for the expression of emotions and conflict resolution
  • Implement Equitable, Culturally Responsive, and Standards-Aligned Curriculum and Instruction
  • Provide relevant, challenging learning experiences aligned to grade-level standards through a curriculum that is adapted and supplemented, if necessary
  • Create an inclusive community where all aspects of diversity and learner variability are understood, expected, and welcomed
  • Engage learners in productive struggle to support perseverance and agency for meeting high expectations of grade-level standards

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Education or a core subject area with course work that leads to licensure in the content area at an appropriate age level.
  • Must possess and maintain or be eligible to hold a current Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction license at the level and the content they are teaching.
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Sun Prairie Area School District

The Sun Prairie Area School District has proudly earned a place in the nation as one of the most innovative and progressive school districts, and the single factor that has led to this reputation is the quality of the staff who serve and love our children every day. Our staff lead some of the most relevant, engaging, and innovative programming anywhere. While there are too many to name completely, a sampling of our programming includes our foreign language programming, our Advanced Placement Computer Science programming, our personalization and co-teaching instructional strategies, AVID programming, not to mention the strength of our literacy and math curricular offerings. Taken as a collection of opportunities and innovative programming, we call this The Sun Prairie Experience.What exactly does this mean? This is a place that celebrates and values our diverse community, where we stand by our students with disabilities and their families, and where all children will be safe and loved. This is a place where students have access to opportunities like nowhere else. Students can grow not only academically and emotionally inside our schools and classrooms, but also grow socially outside the schoolhouse walls as a part of our comprehensive athletics, fine arts, and activities programming. Taken together, this is The Sun Prairie Experience.Our VisionRecognized as a high-performing district of choice that reflects the cultures of our diverse community.Our MissionInspire and prepare every child, every day, by providing relevant, engaging, and innovative learning experiences in and out of the classroom.

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA
845 employees
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7th Grade Teacher (Literacy and Social Studies)

Sun Prairie Area School District · Sun Prairie, WI · On-site