Position Title: Science Teacher

First commitment: July 1, 2025

Contract type: Permanent, 10-month 

School Type: Boarding 

Reports To: Assistant Head/Dean of Faculty

Position Summary: 

St. Mark's School seeks a skilled and collaborative Science Teacher to join the Science Department in the 2025-2026 academic year.  The successful applicant will join a department that cares deeply about developing our students’ ability to conduct scientific investigations,  think critically, and draw evidence-based conclusions.   In cultivating these important skills and challenging learners to think deeply about the applications of scientific concepts in real-world contexts, we advance our goal of preparing students for their future.   The School values flexible educators who possess an optimistic, growth-oriented mindset regarding learning, both for themselves and their students. Educators with these characteristics and the desire to contribute to a vibrant boarding school community through coaching, advising, and residential life are encouraged to apply. 

As a Science teacher, you will be a member of the Science department and report to the head of the department and the assistant head of school/ dean of faculty. We invite interested candidates to apply by completing an application on the St. Mark’s School Employment page. 

What You’ll Do as Science Teacher

As a St. Mark’s faculty member, you will teach in the Science department, advise three to six students, attend all-school and faculty-required events, and coach or lead co-curricular programming. Other key responsibilities are as follows:

• Teach four sections of science across the range of offerings in the department, and work collaboratively with a teaching team to design and evaluate the curriculum.  
• Provide students in the classroom with timely, ongoing, and meaningful feedback, including comments for each student at the end of grading periods
• Support a residential house team by supervising evening hours once weekly and five Saturday nights per year 
• Participate in St. Mark’s Experiential Learning Programming, which includes course design and development in St. Mark’s Saturdays and in Lion Term.  
• Participate in community life through Social Duty (four weekends per year)
• Give up to six admission tours per year 

Things You’ll Love: 

• On-campus housing; health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement contribution – after one year of service, the school contributes 10% of your annual salary to a 403 (b) retirement plan (100% immediate vesting); three meals a day are available at the dining hall during the school year for you and your family; use of facilities for you and your immediate family: weight rooms, outdoor pool, ice rink, basketball courts, nature trails, etc.; annual financial planning services available; parental leave: 8 weeks at full pay, and 4 weeks at a quarter pay; Health Assistance Program; Employee Assistance Program; tuition remission (100%); Child Day Care financial assistance program; William A. Coolidge Fund – annual financial assistance for each employee’s child attending tuition-charging schools.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Master’s degree in Science and two or more years of science teaching experience. 
• Ability to structure effective learning experiences for novice through advanced science students. 
• Enthusiasm for work with adolescent students in many contexts
• Outstanding task and time management skills with high attention to detail
• Strong leadership, collaboration, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Proficiency with computer applications such as Google Suite including Docs, Slides, and Sheets

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in an educational setting, including familiarity with residential communities and the needs of adolescents 
• Experience teaching Chemistry and/or Physics at the secondary school level. 
• Experience teaching in an interdisciplinary curriculum and/or teaching multiple subjects. 
• Success working with culturally diverse populations as well as a commitment to inclusive pedagogy
• Commitment to continuous self-reflection and professional growth

About St. Mark's School

St. Mark's School is a coed, private boarding high school of approximately 375 students with a strong, college preparatory curriculum located 22 miles west of Boston and 12 miles east of Worcester. St. Mark's School educates young people for lives of leadership and service. Founded in 1865 as an intentionally small residential community, the School challenges its students to develop their particular analytic and creative capabilities by both inspiring their academic and spiritual curiosity and kindling their passion for discovery. We value cooperation over self-interest, and we encourage all members of our community to explore their place in the larger world beyond our campus. St. Mark’s School provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or genetics, and any other characteristic or status protected by law. This commitment is exemplified in numerous ways, such as our welcoming Chapel program, our Pathways Program which houses multiple student-centered affinity spaces, and the intersectional work within our office of Communit...y and Equity and Global Studies programs. The School values flexible educators who possess an optimistic, growth-oriented mindset regarding learning, both for themselves and their students.

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