| 8th Grade Science Teacher Part-Time Position Beginning August 2020 Mark Day School seeks an experienced and collaborative part-time 8th grade science teacher. The successful applicant for this position will help advance the school’s mission with positive energy, creativity, dedication to a diverse community, love for children, a strong work ethic, and a willingness to collaborate in partnership with the middle school teaching team and the wider school community. This teacher will be responsible for two sections of 8th grade science (22 students each). Each section meets three days a week, once for 45 minutes and twice for 75 minutes in our block schedule. Skills, understandings, and attitudes developed throughout the middle school include broad metacognitive skills, such as growth mindset, self-advocacy, time management, and collaboration. Science students engage actively in a challenging, inquiry-based, experiential course in which they learn to apply scientific thinking, generate questions, apply the scientific process, carry out sound investigations and experiments, and master content, concepts, and skills in life and physical sciences, all with an eye toward making informed decisions and creating positive change in the world around them. Key Responsibilities Include: - Challenge all students with high academic and behavioral expectations while maintaining a climate of responsibility, safety, kindness, enthusiasm, and fun.
- Model personal standards of excellence: warmth, clarity of expectations, consistency, and accountability.
- Demonstrate equitable and culturally responsive teaching practices.
- Apply a wide range of highly effective teaching approaches balancing enduring and innovative best practices.
- Engage in ongoing professional development.
- Form supportive and responsive relationships with students and families.
- Differentiate instruction to challenge every learner.
- Build a strong, positive classroom community in which students advocate for themselves and others.
- Provide constructive, timely, specific feedback that fosters a growth mindset.
- Use available technology to enhance student learning, collaboration, and responsive communication.
- Work with learning specialists and parents when necessary to design individualized programs for students who require specialized support.
- Collaborate with the wider community to enhance the students’ experience, including specialists in technology, information literacy, drama, art, music, P.E., world language, Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and counseling, global education, sustainability, service-learning, and diversity.
- Observe, evaluate, encourage and monitor students’ academic and social development and progress.
- Communicate regularly with students, parents, and colleagues regarding students’ progress and needs.
Additional Responsibilities Include: - Back to School Night
- Parent information evenings
- Faculty meetings
- Recess supervision
More About Mark Day School Mark Day School has established a consistent practice of thoughtful innovation in its curricular program, focusing on current century skills and concepts including four cross-curricular literacies: Cross-Cultural Literacy, Media and Information Literacy, Ecoliteracy, and Social, Emotional, and Ethical Literacy. Highlights include the NAIS Leading Edge Award-winning Media Literacy program; well-established local and global partnerships including with Kliptown Youth Program and eSibonisweni School in South Africa, Beijing #2 Experimental Primary School in China, and Pan American School in Costa Rica, among others; iPads in the third and fourth grades; class sets of laptops in fifth grade and a one-to-one laptop program beginning in sixth grade; Mandarin and Spanish language beginning in kindergarten; a commitment to differentiation across the school; and more. Mark Day School is a vibrant and diverse community, and all community members continue to work towards the furthering of an inclusive and supportive school. The school is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and multiculturalism. Mark Day School’s salary and benefits are very competitive by both NAIS and regional standards. For more information about Mark Day School, please visit our website (www.markdayschool.org). Interested candidates should visit our website and send a letter of interest and resume via email to usresumes@markdayschool.org. We will begin getting in contact with strong candidates immediately upon receiving materials. |