Upper School - Montverde, United States - Montverde Academy

Description

This position is responsible for providing Social Studies education services to upper school students in a classroom setting. Instructs students, maintains student discipline, and facilitates student academic achievement. This is a full time, 10-month faculty position.

Responsibilities:
Instructional:

• Provides instruction and assessment in social studies courses such as United States History, World History, and Economics

• Demonstrates a desire to meaningfully integrate technology into the classroom.

• Employs a variety of teaching methods to engage different learning styles and ability levels in the classroom.

• Prepares motivating and stimulating lessons that reflect knowledge of the curriculum, child development, and student abilities.

• Encourages an inclusive classroom that accepts the different perspectives and backgrounds of the students and elicits a greater understanding of the world around them with a global perspective.

• Utilizes a variety of assessments and uses data in the classroom to develop lessons and instructional activities as needed.
Teaching and Learning Environment:

• Creates a learning environment that is motivating and age appropriate, setting clear expectations for classwork and homework while maintaining current books and instructional resources that support classroom learning.

• Seeks to actively know students' strengths and weaknesses and responds promptly and with care to parent concerns.

• Communicates effectively with parents, colleagues, and administrators.

• Demonstrates strong classroom management skills.

Skills and Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree, with a graduate degree preferred.
• A demonstrated passion for life-long education.
• The ability to work with and communicate with a diverse population of constituents—colleagues, parents, students, and community members.
• Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

Physical requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the Academy's facilities.