Position Type: Certified Teacher
Job Title: Virtual Arkansas 7-12 Math Teacher/Interventionist
Reports to: Virtual Arkansas Principal
Location: Arch Ford Educational Service Cooperative; Telework from home office
Contract Length: Remainder of the 2026-2027 school year
Job Listing Open Date: November 10, 2026
Job Listing Close Date: November 20, 2026: 10:00 p.m.
Contract Start Date: December 14, 2026
Contract End Date: May 21, 2026
Essential Qualifications:
Science of Reading level required: Awareness
Arkansas Teacher's License: 7-12 Math Required
Residency: Teacher must have permanent residency in Arkansas
About Virtual Arkansas: Virtual Arkansas’s (VA) mission is to equip, engage, and empower students through unique digital opportunities. As Arkansas’s state virtual program, 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.
Job Summary:
Virtual Arkansas seeks a highly motivated, relentless Math Interventionist to help students who struggle with mathematics build understanding, confidence, and independence. This full-time position for the remainder of the 2026-2027 school year provides targeted individual and small-group instruction for students in Arkansas ATLAS-tested mathematics courses, from 7th-grade mathematics through Geometry. Working closely with teachers of record and local school facilitators, the interventionist identifies learning gaps, develops intervention plans, and monitors student progress.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Meet weekly with each assigned teacher of record to review student needs and progress, prioritize students for support, and coordinate individual and small-group interventions.
- Use available ATLAS results, course assessments, student work, LMS activity, and diagnostic checks to identify prerequisite skill gaps, misconceptions, and barriers to mathematical learning.
- Develop targeted intervention plans with specific learning goals, instructional strategies, and progress measures aligned with Arkansas mathematics standards and students’ course expectations.
- Provide direct instruction and remediation in individual and small-group virtual sessions. Break concepts into small, purposeful steps and gradually reduce support as students gain understanding and independence.
- Help students who are behind address the learning gaps affecting their progress and develop manageable plans to reengage with coursework in coordination with their teachers of record.
- Use engaging activities, visual representations, purposeful questioning, and mathematical discussion to strengthen conceptual understanding, reasoning, fluency, and confidence.
- Monitor learning regularly, document intervention services and outcomes, and adjust instructional approaches, groupings, and intensity based on student response.
- Coordinate scheduling and participation with local facilitators; follow up on missed sessions and work with teachers and school personnel to resolve participation barriers.
- Provide timely, actionable reports to teachers of record and designated local school personnel documenting participation, targeted skills, progress, remaining needs, and recommended next steps.
- Evaluate participation and student learning outcomes; recommend improvements to intervention practices, resources, service capacity, and program growth.
- Collaborate with colleagues, maintain current knowledge of effective mathematics intervention practices
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Strong knowledge of Arkansas mathematics standards and ATLAS mathematics assessments relevant to 7th-grade mathematics through Geometry, including the reasoning and conceptual understanding students must demonstrate.
- Understanding of how students learn mathematics, including prerequisite skill development, common misconceptions, and the connections among concepts, procedures, and mathematical representations.
- Ability to micro-scaffold instruction by identifying where understanding breaks down, dividing concepts into manageable steps, and checking understanding before advancing.
- A demonstrated belief that all students can learn and succeed in mathematics, reflected in high expectations, empathy, patience, and responsive instruction.
- High personal initiative and motivation to serve students at risk of academic failure; persistence in trying, evaluating, and refining approaches when students continue to struggle.
- Commitment to deep understanding, reasoning, and accuracy while building fluency without making speed the primary measure of mathematical ability.
- Enthusiasm and curiosity toward mathematics and the ability to engage students through meaningful activities, discussion, and a supportive environment for learning from errors.
- Ability to analyze student data, set measurable goals, monitor progress, and communicate findings and next steps clearly.
- Proficiency with learning management systems, virtual meeting platforms, and digital instructional tools to deliver interactive instruction and monitor student learning and participation.
- Strong communication, teamwork, organization, and time management skills; ability to manage an intervention caseload, coordinate across school locations, and follow through independently.
Education, Experience, and Qualifications:
- Arkansas licensure in Math, grades 7-12
- Minimum of a B.A or B.S.; Master’s degree preferred
- Successful mathematics teaching experience required.
- Experience working with learning management systems, preferred.
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Periodic travel requirements
- Sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, or crouch
- Use hands to handle or feel, type, and pick up objects, and reach with hands and arms;
- Talk or hear to communicate effectively
- Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
Other Information:
- Applicant must reside in the State of Arkansas
- The salary for this position is based on the 190-day Certified Salary Schedule found on the Arch Ford Website, and will be calculated by multiplying the number of remaining workdays in the 2026-2027 school year and multiplying by the daily rate of pay.
- This position will be hired through the Arch Ford Education Cooperative; however, employees may reside and work remotely in a location that has robust Internet connectivity, per the terms of the Virtual Arkansas Telework Agreement.
- Virtual Arkansas teachers are engaged in their teaching duties from their home office, although periodic travel may be required.
- Attend scheduled and required in-person meetings (e.g. annual start of school meeting) with the understanding that these required meetings do not qualify for travel reimbursement.
- Salary will be commensurate with years of experience and education level and will correspond to the Virtual Arkansas 190 contract day salary schedule.
Important Notice:
Virtual Arkansas will not interview applicants who are currently under contract with another district for the 2026-2027 academic year. When applying, please indicate your contract status.
Contact Person: Direct questions to Rebecca Mills at rebecca.mills@virtualarkansas.org