Career Center

St. Mark’s School of Texas seeks an experienced educator to join our Lower School faculty beginning in the 2024-2025 school year.  A strong candidate will be a compassionate teacher with knowledge and understanding of the development of young boys.  Experience should include the background to teach necessary language arts skills with a heavy emphasis on writing mechanics and composition.  Candidates should possess knowledge of DLR, a familiarity with Words Their Way, and a passion for poetry. Candidates should also possess excellent written and oral communication skills, be organized, punctual, and a positive team player. St. Mark’s is a vibrant learning community, and successful candidates will be generative in their thinking about teaching and learning, will enjoy working with young boys, and will seek to collaborate with colleagues, share teaching resources, and contribute to the wider school community in a myriad of ways.  Character and leadership education for all boys is a deep commitment at St. Mark’s.  We have a well-developed program that spans grades one through twelve.  Successful candidates will have interest in this aspect of our program and will place equal priority on the character development and intellectual development of our students.

Responsibilities

• Teach fourth-grade humanities
• Supervise and guide homeroom students
• Communicate regularly with parents about student progress
• Work with team to organize and orchestrate field trip(s) that correlate with curriculum
• Participate in admission observations on five Saturdays in December and January
• Participate in the character and leadership education program

Experience/Qualifications & Skills

• A Bachelor’s degree is required, a Master’s degree is preferred
• A minimum of five years teaching experience at the elementary level
• Knowledge of varied teaching strategies to differentiate learning
• Fluency with a variety of technology tools to advance learning
• Passion and patience for working with children as they begin early adolescence

Qualified applicants should visit our website to complete an application including a letter of interest, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a resume.

About St. Mark's School of Texas

Founded in 1906, St. Mark's School of Texas is a non-sectarian, college-preparatory, independent day school for boys in grades one through twelve. The School’s charter states that it is “designed to afford its students well-rounded physical, intellectual, moral, and religious training and instruction.” The School is intended to be a diverse community of teachers and students who share a love of learning and who strive for high achievement in whatever they undertake. St. Mark’s aims to prepare young men to assume leadership and responsibility in a competitive and changing world. To this end, the School professes and upholds certain values. These values include the discipline of postponing immediate gratification in the interests of earning eventual, hard-won satisfaction; the responsibility of defending one’s own ideas, of respecting the views of others, and of accepting the consequences for one’s own actions; and an appreciation for the lively connection between knowledge and responsibility and the obligation to serve.

Connections working at St. Mark's School of Texas