Posted: 15-Jun-26
Location: Montezuma, New Mexico
Type: Full Time
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The UWC-USA program – a two-year experience that integrates our academic, co-curricular, and residential curricula – prepares students to serve as catalysts for greater unity, peace and sustainability in the world. We support students in the practice of our mission during their two years on campus and challenge them to live our mission for a lifetime.
In the 2026-2027 school year, UWC-USA will build on the first year’s pilot of a “microschool” for the children of employees. The microschool is a “homeschool pod” of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders learning together. The Microschool Teacher will teach the small number of different-grade-level students, be responsible for developing lesson plans, and working with faculty-parents to shape a developing program. The second year will be an adaptive, creative environment, and work to establish a foundation for a program to continue to grow and expand.
The Microschool Teacher is an inspired Middle School generalist teacher who centers their teaching practice in curiosity, flexibility, imagination, and passion, and who can build on the early foundations of our program. In 2026-2027, the teacher will lead the second year of the school, serving the children of faculty and staff at UWC-USA. A school within a school – this is an opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind educational program embracing personal, experiential, and project-based learning within the UWC-USA campus. This requires a teacher who revels in the developmental moments that occur during early adolescence and understands how to guide students to self-informed choices. The
Microschool teacher is open to an iterative process that embraces a wide range of pedagogies to deliver an expansive form of education to a small group of inspired students with diverse needs. The teacher leads and supports an individual student’s educational interests, while creating a cohesive and supportive cohort. Finally, the teacher is someone who can bridge the resources at UWC-USA campus and Montezuma/Las Vegas and the larger New Mexico community with the Microschool.
During its first year, the school curriculum was adapted from UWCSEA’s bespoke curriculum and combined with unique experiential learning opportunities in New Mexico. The students have done deeper dives into math, compassion/mindfulness, international literature and Language Arts, Physics/Chemistry, Nepali and Spanish language, Social Science, Health and Wellbeing, Visual Arts color theory, and worked on UWC-USA’s farm, including designing an incubator where they are currently incubating chicken eggs. The cohort currently includes rising 5th, 6th, and 7th graders The teacher will report to a part-time lead teacher, who will work for 15 hours a week to support the teacher in their work.
As with all teachers at UWC-USA, the Microschool Teacher will be employed on a 10-month agreement that runs from 1 August to 31 May and paid over the course of 12 months. Their summer and winter holiday travel plans should not interfere with their professional obligations at the beginning of August, mid December, early January, and late May.
Teaching: The teaching fellow will teach a differentiated classroom of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade curricula, running from 8:30am to 3:30pm, Monday-Friday. We expect between 4 and 10 students across these three grades.
Course Content and Assessment: The UWC-USA Microschool has the support of UWCSEA’s
bespoke curriculum for the relevant grade years, but the teaching fellow will be responsible for developing lesson plans and and assessments relevant to the way that the curriculum is grounded for our students. Teachers should include cross-curricular connections and scaffold learning to assist with accessibility for all types of learners and holistic modes of learning.
The Microschool Teacher will need to cover the full range of curricular content, from language arts to mathematics. The Microschool Teacher will support the socioemotional needs of the students and engage in experiential opportunities offered by the connections to UWC-USA.
Grades and Reports: The teaching fellow should compile assessment and write a narrative report for each student at designated times of the year.
Three to five years of experience teaching middle school.
