High School Geometry Teacher

JOB PURPOSE: The Geometry Teacher will educate students in grades 9-12 on the basics. This teacher is also responsible for fostering the habits and behavior that support the school's value system of high expectations. The school primarily serves at-risk students from low-income backgrounds in an urban setting. The student body contains roughly 350 students.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Maintain and enrich their expertise in Geometry

• Develop lesson plans that ensure the attainment of state learning standards and the additional specific grade-by-grade learning standards

• Coordinate lesson plans with other teachers to maximize possibilities for teaching similar topics in the same general time frame, thus reinforcing student knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis

• Provide direct and indirect instruction

• Long and short-term planning addressing individual needs of students

• Prepare students adequately for all required assessments

• Evaluate students' progress

• Prepare monthly individual student achievement reports for parents

• Provide an inviting, exciting, innovative, learning environment

• Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management

• Serve as an advisor to all students, including organizing advisory groups, overseeing the academic and behavioral progress

REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrated expertise in Geometry, as evidenced by personal skills and knowledge

• An undergraduate major or minor or graduate degree or direct subject-area teaching experience

• If not covered by any of the exemptions provided under New York's charter-school law, possess any required state teaching certification and meet any other applicable credentialing requirements including the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended

• Demonstrated ability and experience to engage the interest of high school-age children

• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse children, including those with special needs

• Teaching experience in a public or private school, preferably in an urban setting

• Demonstrated ability to work well with parents

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate tests and measurements of achievement

• Demonstrated willingness to be held accountable for student results

• Preferred 9-12 Certification

• Can – do attitude. Driven to not accept failure as an option