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Posted: 18-Nov-24
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Type: Full Time
Salary: Based on experience
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Lower School Science Teacher
10-month, August 2025
We’re looking for someone who:
- is passionate about STEM learning and working with lower school students
- is motivated by our commitment to community and excellence in teaching and learning, joining the school in initiatives such as our future Innovation Hub and Technology Lab
- will commit to a school mission of seeking truth, building character, and nurturing all
- enjoys collaborative work across grade levels
- loves Huntsville…or would enjoy living in a mid-sized city ranked #1 by US News and World Report for its affordability, booming job market, and access to many activities including the arts and outdoors
Who we are:
At Randolph School, PK-12 students become lifelong thinkers, creative problem solvers, and fearless leaders as they learn to embrace their full potential, prepare for a purposeful future and create epic possibilities for success. Randolph School is situated on two campuses within a mile of each other in Jones Valley on the southeastern side of Huntsville, Alabama, which was named in the U.S. News & World Report’s list of best cities in the United States to live. The 17-acre Drake campus houses pre-kindergarten through grade eight, while the Upper School is located at the 76-acre Garth campus. Through a commitment to excellence in academics, the arts, and athletics, the school’s program and its faculty demand diligence and discipline while encouraging creativity and discovery. Above all, the school emphasizes honor, integrity, and character so that all in partnership with Randolph are elevated and inspired to enrich their families, communities, the nation, and the world.
Randolph School is seeking an innovative STEM and Science teacher teaching first through fourth grades within our Lower School Division. Applicants should be interested in creating a robust STEM learning program that complements a standards-based school curriculum. The STEM program will focus on inquiry-based STEM experiences that spark interest, build science capital, encourage science identity, and foster participation in STEM.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Develop, evaluate, revise, and facilitate engaging, accessible, and relevant STEM experiences
- Implement Lower School science curriculum by ensuring all interactions are social, connected, inclusive, engaging, age-appropriate, and evidence-based
- Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning through active participation in professional growth activities, specifically current scientific breakthroughs and STEM engagement/education trends, via training sessions, seminars, workshops, peer evaluation, self-directed research, and other opportunities
- Strive to create a vibrant and exciting atmosphere that inspires students to want to learn
- Facilitate hands-on STEM experiences at engagement stations throughout the division
- Collaborate with other STEM faculty for a cohesive program
- Tend class animals and incorporate them in the educational experience
- Promote and coordinate cross-curricular opportunities with grade-level teachers that complement their curriculum
- Maintain an effective, safe, inviting, well-organized and inventoried classroom
- Identify and respond to each individual students’ learning needs and create enrichment and remedial opportunities; implement instructional strategies that contribute to meaningful learning experiences for all learners
- Demonstrate effective written and oral communication (parent conferences, written correspondence including narrative reports)
- Effectively monitor and manage student learning using a variety of assessment methods to evaluate student progress
- Create a supportive and inclusive environment and develop respectful relationships with students by using conflict resolution and problem-solving techniques within the classroom
- Integrate technology appropriately in the classroom
- Use our Learning Management System to communicate and organize assignments
Qualifications:
- B.S. or B.A. in Science or Education required, master’s degree preferred
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience in teaching lower school science preferred
- Independent college preparatory school experience preferred
- Student-centered, collaborative, approachable, level-headed in a busy environment, with a sense of humor
Interest and ability to contribute to our clubs, athletics, and extracurricular programs is an additional consideration.
As a member institution, Randolph School is committed to the principles of diversity as stated by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). In that spirit, Randolph School does not discriminate in violation of the law on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, age, physical challenge, nation of origin, gender, or any other characteristic.