Details
Posted: 06-Jul-22
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Type: Full Time
Categories:
English/Language Arts
Summary
Beacon Academy’s Teaching Faculty is committed to academic excellence, is passionate about teaching and working with adolescents, creates a classroom environment that facilitates learning and critical thinking, and delivers innovative and interdisciplinary curriculum. For SY23, the instructor in this position will teach four (4) English classes - all of which are English elective courses.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Support student learning through innovative and interdisciplinary curriculum.
- Actively support our school’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.
- Be aware of and coordinate teaching objectives, materials, methods, and means of assessment used within the English department.
- Communicate regularly with parents and guardians regarding student progress.
- Provide ideas for agenda items for possible inclusion in faculty and department meetings.
- Articulate the department's strategies in achieving the mission and goals of the school and work with colleagues to set departmental objectives, assessments, and policies accordingly.
- Work collaboratively with the English department on vertical alignment.
- Participate in ongoing professional development.
- Be open to interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues and outside institutions.
- To be present and accessible to students and colleagues during school hours.
Additional Job Requirements
- Support the philosophy and mission of the school and its leadership.
- Maintain appropriate attendance and punctuality and be available to students when present at school.
- Maintain and manage sensitive and confidential school, student, family, and employee information.
Qualifications or Comparable Experience
- Master’s Degree
- Experience with English education, preferably at the high school level
- Montessori teaching experience preferred
- Willingness to collaborate effectively with colleagues
Physical Demands and Work Environment
- While performing the responsibilities the employee is required to talk and hear and have close, distant, and peripheral vision.
- The role requires standing, sitting, reaching, and light lifting.
- Typical work hours are limited to Monday through Friday, but additional days/hours are required at times depending on the demands of the department and school events.