Universal Family of Schools seeks an inspiring Humanities teacher (9-12) to develop students' passion and curiosities, and help them think deeply about the world through various lenses of history, literature, and media. The Humanities teacher will help students find their voices and express their ideas confidently through the spoken and written word.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identify standards-aligned desired results (in terms of acquisition, meaning, and transfer.
- Designing performance tasks/assessments that provide evidence of learning.
- Creating a learning plan. Humanities units must integrate language arts, social studies, and civic standards. Deliver daily humanities lessons that are engaging, relevant, and rigorous.
- Understand and apply effective strategies for intervention and differentiation in the classroom, including serving English language learners and students with individualized education plans (IEPs).
- Embed opportunities for student critical-thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, as well as use of technology and digital media, into all lesson and unit plans.
- Integrate reading and writing into every class taught daily.
- Maintain strong classroom management and hold students accountable for upholding school rules, student-developed norms, and classroom expectations.
- Provide education and coaching for students around goal-setting and development of non-cognitive skills such as perseverance, courage, and more.
- Complete other task as requested.
Qualifications/Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in English, History or related field, a teaching certificate or credential or equivalent professional experience which would which would translate to successful classroom teaching.
- Advanced degree preferred but not required.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with the ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with all constituents.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
- Collaborates well with colleagues of diverse backgrounds on pedagogical approaches, curricular alignment and instructional strategies.
- Promotes the use of multiple methods in solving problems, identifying more efficient strategies and generalizing principles to a broad variety of applications.
- Encourages collaborative teamwork in the classroom, teaching students to communicate effectively and thoughtfully, justify their reasoning and to consider multiple perspectives when solving problems.
- Invests in the life of the school by participating in the advisory program, social and emotional learning, weekly department meetings and multidisciplinary team meetings, and any and all aspects that support the student experience.
- Demonstrated professional behavior, including discretion, judgment and integrity.
- Effectively interacts with a diverse population of students and faculty.