[Hiring] Virtual Arkansas CTE Teacher @Dawson Education Service Cooperative

Role Description

The Virtual Arkansas full-time CTE Introduction to Business online teacher is responsible for following the established curriculum and providing instruction to students in a virtual learning environment. The teacher leverages the capabilities of the digital tools, the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), the Student Information System (SIS), and the course itself to effectively deliver lessons, assess student progress and learning, provide personalized feedback, and identify and intervene with students who are demonstrating difficulty in mastering the standards, learning objectives, and goals of the course.

The expectations for Virtual Arkansas Teachers include:

• The online teacher curates and creates instructional materials, tools, strategies, and resources to engage all learners and ensure achievement of academic goals.
• The online teacher designs learning experiences that use technology to efficiently engage learners.
• The online teacher uses a formative approach to lesson design.
• The online teacher incorporates diverse media into online learning modules.
• The online teacher is able to incorporate subject-specific and developmentally appropriate digital learning resources into online learning modules.
• The online teacher continuously reviews and aligns all course content with applicable course objectives and standards.
• The online teacher creates, selects, and organizes appropriate assignments and assessments to align curricular content with associated standards-based learning goals.

Qualifications

• Science of Reading level required: Awareness
• Arkansas Teacher's License with Business Endorsement (250), or Family and Consumer Science (215)
• Arkansas residency required
• Effective Online Teaching license preferred (115)

Requirements

• Ability to engage students remotely while fostering a positive learning environment.
• Adaptability to the unique challenges of digital education.

Company Description

Virtual Arkansas’s (VA) mission is to equip, engage, and empower students through unique digital opportunities. As the State of Arkansas’s Virtual School (SVS), we partner with local schools to provide course opportunities to students that might not otherwise be available with local resources. Virtual Arkansas is not an online school or a diploma-granting institution but serves as a resource for supplementing the education of local students.

Virtual Arkansas’s program is implemented through a partnership between the Arkansas Department of Education and the Arkansas Education Service Cooperatives. Virtual Arkansas offers a variety of instructional services, and teachers may be assigned to different services based on organizational needs. Teachers may be assigned to one or more service areas including:

• Content + Teacher Supplemental
• Dedicated/Emergency Use
• Division of Youth Services
• Alternative Learning Environment
• Learn Anywhere Academy

Additionally, teachers are not able to make course requests but are assigned within their licensure area by organizational need. Virtual Arkansas maintains a comprehensive catalog of courses that were created to fully align with the Arkansas Curriculum Standards or other learning outcomes defined by credit-granting entities, such as Advanced Placement or Institutions of Higher Education offering concurrent course offerings in partnership with Virtual Arkansas. Because of the unique nature of our organization, Virtual Arkansas online teachers also serve as subject matter experts who engage in ongoing curriculum and assessment design tasks aimed at assuring the quality of Virtual Arkansas online courses and the alignment of content, assessments, and instructional practice.