High School Science (Chemistry and Physics) Teacher

Position Responsibilities

High School Educator Responsibilities

• Foster a sense of student belonging by cultivating joy and purpose throughout the High School.

• Contribute to our commitment to extraordinary care by acting as an advisor for a small group of students and by teaching our advisory social-emotional learning curriculum.

• Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world connections, and a culturally responsive curriculum.

• Design quality standards-based formative, summative and self assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicate students growth and achievement.

• Plan and implement engaging learning experiences that are inquiry-based collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated.

• Respond to learners diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions.

• Utilize flexible, rigorous and adaptive Tier I instructional practices to allow students of all diverse language and learning styles to effectively access learning.

• Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback, and engages in professional learning and reflection.

• Actively engage in professional learning and growth through regular observation and feedback cycles, walkthroughs, and reflection with Professional Learning Community Coach and Principals, and participate in external opportunities.

• Design and implement inquiry-based learning experiences in and beyond the classroom to prompt learners to question, investigate, create, and reflect.

• Demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary connections, teaching and/or learning.

• Creatively leverage flexible learning spaces and flexible grouping to provide for a variety of learning styles, ability levels, and educational backgrounds

• Integrate technology in innovative ways in daily instruction to enhance learning.

• Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.).

• Strive for continuous self-improvement as a life-long learner.

• Model the Core Values in your interactions with all members of the school community.

• Connect with and be available to parents and students during and outside of school hours (in person and via email communication)

Role-Specific Responsibilities

• Utilize Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to plan, teach and assess.

• Be willing to teach a variety of foundational to advanced studies Chemistry and Physics courses for grade 9 through 12

Position Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field/s

• Master's Degree in relevant field preferred

• At least two years of full time secondary school teaching experience in Science preferred

• Standards-based curriculum experience preferred

• Experience teaching chemistry across a broad range of high school levels required

• Experience teaching physics required, ideally across a broad range of levels including high school

• Teaching license or a degree in education required

• Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) curriculum experience preferred

• Excellent verbal and written English language skills

Working Requirements

• Sponsoring and/or coaching after school arts, activities or sports are part of the responsibility of the professional educator. Therefore, faculty shall be available to direct, coach and/or sponsor an athletic team or other extra curricular activity or arts. Each faculty member is expected to do a minimum of one category 1 activity or sport per year.

• Mandatory attendance of weekly faculty meetings beyond the school day, new hire orientation and educator professional learning days.

• Chaperone and participate in a minimum of four evening and/or weekend school activities each year, as assigned (including Back-to-School Night, learning conferences, musicals, concerts, and more).

• SAS faculty members are expected to commit to chaperoning learning experiences including those requiring overseas and/or overnight excursions, including but not limited to High School Interim Semester and other curricular and co-curricular trips.