
Guest Teacher - Long Term-English Language Arts
Thornton, COFull-time$200Posted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Adams 12 Five Star Schools seeks a Long-Term Guest Teacher to serve in assignments lasting more than 20 consecutive days, stepping into the regular teacher’s role. The teacher delivers instruction, manages classroom goals and student behavior, and fosters an educational environment that supports student achievement. The position serves students in a diverse and inclusive learning environment.
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Long-Term Guest Teacher Location: Thornton, CO
Pay Rate $200 per full day, non-benefited Hours Per Week: 40
Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission to elevate student success for every student every day in every classroom. Candidates who can contribute to our goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in this area.
Join our team as a Long-Term Guest Teacher (Substitute Teacher) and contribute to the diverse and inclusive learning environment.
SUMMARY: Serving in assignments longer than 20 consecutive days, a long-term guest teacher fully steps into the role of the regular teacher. This includes executing effective instructional methods, managing classroom goals, and fostering an exemplary educational environment to drive student achievement.
JOB OVERVIEW:
- Plan, prepare and deliver instructional activities
- Create positive educational climate for students to learn in.
- Meet course and school-wide student performance goals.
- Participate in ongoing training sessions.
- Create lesson plans and modify accordingly throughout the year.
- Grade papers and perform other administrative duties as needed.
- Read and stay abreast of current topics in education.
- Utilize various curriculum resources and technologies to enhance student learning.
- Integrate competencies, goals, and objectives into lesson plans.
- Utilize District curricula that reflect the diverse educational, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of the students served.
- Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities. - Prepare and distribute parent communications.
- Observe and evaluate student's performance.
- Manage student behavior in the classroom creating appropriate behavior strategies.
EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor's degree or higher.
- Must be a minimum of 18 years old.
LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS or CERTIFICATIONS:
- Criminal background check required for hire.
- Must possess, or be able to obtain from, or be in process with the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) for a valid Colorado Educator License with a English Language Arts endorsement.
- Must possess the required license and endorsement. If in field by content test or semester hours, with no endorsement: applicant must posses a Colorado educator license license with a passing score on a CDE approved content test or 24 semester hours in specific core content classes as determined by Human Resources.
For more information on substitute teaching, please visit our website www.adams12.org. Click on Careers, then Teach and select Substitute Services.
BENEFITS INFORMATION: Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees. The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date). To learn more about our benefits including paid time off, please see our Benefits Overview.
THIS POSTING IS NOT INCLUSIVE OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION. Rev 11/26
How this job compares
Set against the 4,650 open Teacher jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$200
- Colorado median$49–61K/yr43 salary ranges
- Colorado median$24–29/hr24 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 119 open Teacher jobs in Colorado and 4,650 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- Stride, Inc.28 open
- Adams 12 Five Star Schools (this employer)17 open
- State of Colorado13 open
- Experience
- Teacher postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (775 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,726 of the 4,650 open Teacher jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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