Details
Posted: 21-Apr-22
Location: Shaker Heights, Ohio
Type: Contract
Categories:
Elementary Teacher
Description
Position/Title: Grades 3-5 Teacher at Butler (long term substitute)
Appointment: September 2022 - Early December 2022
Reports To: Director of Grades 3-5 at Butler
*This is a long term substitute position at the Butler Campus. The anticipated dates of the long term sub assignment are from Sept 12, 2022 - December 2, 2022.
Laurel School seeks talented faculty who will put our students first and strive to make a difference in their lives. We seek to attract culturally and academically diverse faculty who thrive on being engaged participants in our community and are committed to anti-racist education and the development of young women as authentic learners and leaders. The most successful candidates are solutions-driven, are willing to listen to learn, embrace iteration and practice as a necessary part of the product, see opportunities before problems, and thrive in a fast paced, forward-thinking educational environment. Laurel lives our mission: to inspire each girl to fulfill her promise and to better the world. We continually challenge our community to question existing paradigms and to dream, dare, and do.
Position Summary
As a homeroom teacher, this position entails the design, detailed planning, and instruction of child-centered, age-appropriate curricula in language arts, math, science, and social studies. Teachers work cooperatively with specialist teachers in world languages, art, music, physical education, and dance. Teachers in this position could work with students in Grades 3, 4, and 5.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Preparation and implementation of daily lessons
- Assignment and timely evaluation of all relevant class work
- Design and implementation of appropriate, authentic assessments in each core curricular area
- Comprehensive, on-going documentation of student progress
- Preparation of regular, detailed rubrics and formal narrative reports on student progress
- Assessment and support of students
- Collaboration with other members of the faculty and staff
- Participation in faculty and staff meetings
- Effective and timely communication in person, through email and through voice mail with varied school constituencies
- Support of divisional and school-wide initiatives
- Supervision and/or participation in non-academic activities, i.e. lunch, recess, and afternoon dismissal
The successful candidate ideally holds a graduate degree and possesses 3 or more years teaching experience. This opening is for a teaching position at our Butler Campus -- interested candidates must enjoy the outdoors and be interested in place-based education and curriculum development. Experience teaching or working in an outdoor learning environment is a plus, as is a science background or prior experience teaching science. She or he must possess a positive attitude, excellent written and verbal skills, strong organizational skills, and proven success within a work setting that requires collaboration, cooperation, and collegiality. The candidate must possess or acquire and maintain a State of Ohio issued teaching certificate or substitute license.
Salary
Laurel offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.
To Apply:
Please see www.laurelschool.org for further information and a job application.
Work Environment
Laurel School is a dynamic, forward-thinking, K-12 girls’ school, with a co-ed pre-primary division where every child is well known. As a Facing History and Ourselves School, Laurel is fully committed to equity and inclusion; we actively seek culturally diverse faculty and staff.
Laurel teachers are committed to:
- The study of research on girls’ education and integration of this knowledge into classroom practice
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
- Anti-racist, multicultural education
- The academic and social development of girls
- Working with each girl to fulfill the school’s mission
- The creation of an inclusive classroom community
- The integration of community-based learning projects at the classroom level and as a part of the whole school community
- Involving parents as partners in the educational process
- Outdoor education and sustainability
- Flexibility and openness to new ideas
Laurel enjoys an outstanding local and national reputation and is home to the Laurel Center for Research on Girls. In a highly competitive school landscape, Laurel is fortunate to be a school of choice in Cleveland. Our emphasis on the whole child and our legacy of excellence in the teaching of girls set us apart. Located in Shaker Heights, OH (15 minutes from downtown Cleveland) with an additional rural campus 17 minutes away, the school has an urban/rural advantage. The work environment is noted for being family-friendly and flexible. The feeling in the school is joyous, collaborative and innovative. Our curricular philosophy emphasizes community-based, interdisciplinary and experiential learning. Collaboration and reflective practice are key to pedagogy at Laurel. The school is fully committed to a culturally diverse faculty and student body.
Laurel School is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all personnel and applicants for employment without regard to race; color; religion; sex; gender identity; national origin; handicap or disability; sexual orientation; or status as a veteran, Vietnam era, or special disabled veteran.