Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare engaging, age appropriate lessons that reflect extensive knowledge of the curriculum and student development and abilities.

• Utilize a variety of teaching methods to meet the needs of students with diverse backgrounds and learning styles.

• Integrate meaningful and effective technology in the classroom.

• Participate in the continuing development of an inquiry-based history curriculum that prepares students to be critical, independent thinkers.

• Demonstrate strong classroom management.

• Meet deadlines for reporting grades.

• Monitor students’ progress, strengths, and weaknesses, and communicate these when necessary to parents/guardians and administrators.

• Prepare substantive parent-teacher conference reports and written documentation on student progress.

• Collaborate with colleagues across the middle school as well as the history department.

• Serve as an advisor to a group of middle school students.

• Attend and contribute in full, divisional, departmental, and team faculty meetings.

• Take an active role in professional activities and attend relevant professional meetings and conferences.

• Stay abreast of the latest advances in history education.

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional school environment.  

Position Type:

This is a full-time position with teaching responsibilities from August – May.  As with any independent school, faculty should be ready to chaperone class trips, perform typical day-to-day duties such as lunch and carpool duties, and engage fully in all school events that develop the student.