Middle School Science Teacher for 2024-2025 School Year

Description

Title:              Teacher

Reports to:     Principal

Work Year:   10 months

 

Position Focus:  Education and care for the whole student, guided by policies set forth in the Faculty/Staff Manual, the school’s Mission Statement and School Board of Trustees Manual. 

 

Spiritual:

•       Seek to role model in attitude, speech, and action a consistent daily walk with Jesus Christ

•       Motivate others to accept God’s gift of salvation and grow in their faith

•       Follow the Matthew 18 principle in dealing with students, parents, staff and administration

•       Lead others to a realization of their worth in Christ and cultivate their growth in Christ-like character

•       Subscribe to and promote the statement of faith

*  All staff are ministers of Christ.

 

 

Position Parameters:

 

·       Demonstrate love for God

 

¨     Express specific knowledge of the Bible and its application to subject area(s)

¨     Practice daily devotions of prayer, reading of God’s Word, and meditation

¨     Provide Christian service to others both within and outside the school

¨     Model an exemplary Christian walk in speech, attitude and actions

¨     Submit to authority out of obedience to Christ

 

·       Demonstrate love for students

 

¨     Treat each child as uniquely gifted by God for the purpose of serving others (I Peter 4:10)

¨     Show through actions that each child is made to reflect God Himself

¨     Discipline all students fairly and firmly out of love for them

¨     Encourage all students persistently (catch each of them “doing good”)

¨     Guide all students in helping other students learn

¨     Evaluate students’ progress in learning with announced criteria fairly applied

 

·       Demonstrate professional competence and vision

 

¨     Show a strong knowledge of learning theory, curriculum design, and subject area(s)

¨     Construct and/or use courses, units, and lessons that integrate this knowledge

¨     Select materials and lesson designs that specifically carry out the goals derived from the school’s mission statement

¨     Use evaluation instruments that match the school’s goals and specific objectives, that allow each child to show well what he/she has learned, and that help students meet high expectations of learning

¨     Implement 21st Century best practices in the classroom

¨     Utilize teaching methods that require student to think critically

¨     Pursue further learning of subject area(s) while seeking the best pedagogy for the school’s goals

 

·       Communicate effectively according to biblical standards

 

¨     Speak clearly, honestly, and with great concern for the audience

¨     Use fresh analogies to connect new concepts to student’s experience

¨     Relate stories of God’s faithfulness, personal and communal, with clarity and enthusiasm

¨     Guide students to view life through a Biblical worldview perspective

¨     Vary the means (visual, audible, tactile) and language (abstract, concrete, metaphorical, etc.) depending on the subject and the needs of all children

¨     Encourage each child’s expression, and help students to adopt biblical principles for making choices

¨     Model awe for the destructive power of sin and God’s restoration of creation and human beings

 

·       Communicate with parents and encourage their participation in their child’s education

 

·       Communicate with parents when a student is only working at a “D” or “F” level at the earliest possible opportunity

 

·       Build Christian community within and outside the school

 

¨     Give help to fellow teachers and support staff

¨     Assist student beyond the classroom:  playground, hallways, extracurricular sponsorship, personal guidance, etc.

¨     Meet with staff members to listen, learn, worship, and exchange advice for helping students meet the goals of the school

¨     Contact parents for help in educating their child

¨     Provide a classroom atmosphere (displays, warmth, arrangement of furniture etc.) that fosters Christian community

 

 

Qualifications

 

·       A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an accredited college or university

·       Current certification in this state in the subject area or grade level for which the teacher is hired or obtain certification within two years of employment

·       Committed Christ-follower

·       Active member of a local Bible believing church

·       Demonstrated ability to teach children well

 

Requirement

Qualifications

 

·       A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an accredited college or university

·       Current certification in this state in the subject area or grade level for which the teacher is hired or obtain certification within two years of employment

·       Committed Christ-follower

·       Active member of a local Bible believing church

·       Demonstrated ability to teach children well