Science Teacher (Long Term Substitute)
Science Teacher (Long Term Substitute)
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Woburn Public Schools
High School Science Teacher
The incumbent will be covering from September 2 2025 until December 2 2025.
Long Term Substitutes receive a daily rate of $125.00 for the first 20 days of work. Starting on the 21st day they are compensated at the daily rate for either a Bachelors ($344.82) or Masters ($370.56) level based on their qualifications for the remainder of their assignment.
Job Goal: Instruct high school students in Science utilizing current strategies and theories to plan and implement a series of learning opportunities that promote skills to analyze and explain the world around them. Science teachers will engage students by addressing students prior knowledge and preconceptions incorporating investigation experimentation design and analytical problem solving while allowing students opportunities to collaborate in scientific and technological activities and communicate their thinking and understanding of scientific concepts.
Certification:Bachelors degree or higher from an accredited college or university
Current Massachusetts licensure in Science 6-12
Reports To: Building Principal and Science Curriculum Coordinator
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES (include but are not limited to):
- Implement refine modify instruction based district curriculum and upon the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Frameworks
- Remain fully committed to continuously learning improving reflecting and working together with administrators and colleagues to ensure that all students achieve at high levels.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the subject matter and the pedagogy it requires by engaging students in learning experiences that enable them to acquire knowledge and skills in the subject.
- Demonstrate knowledge of developmental levels of students and the different ways students learn by providing differentiated learning experiences to enable all students to progress toward meeting intended outcomes.
- Ability to develop well-structured lessons with challenging measurable objectives and appropriate student engagement strategies pacing sequence activities materials resources technologies and grouping
- Design units of instruction with measurable outcomes and challenging tasks requiring higher-order thinking skills that enable students to learn the knowledge and skills defined in state standards/local curricula.
- Design and administer informal and formal assessments including common interim assessments to measure each students learning growth and progress toward achieving state/local standards.
- Consistently define high expectations for the quality of student work and the perseverance and effort required to produce it.
- Use rituals routines and appropriate responses that create and maintain a safe physical and intellectual environment where students take academic risks and most behaviors that interfere with learning are prevented.
- Use strategies and practices that are likely to enable students to demonstrate respect for and affirm their own and others differences related to background identity language strengths and challenges.
- Use strategies to support every family to participate actively and appropriately in the classroom and school community.
- Show understanding of and sensitivity to different families home language culture and values.
- Reflect on the effectiveness of lessons units and interactions with students both individually and with colleagues and use insights gained to improve practice and student learning.
- Seek out and apply ideas for improving practice from supervisors colleagues professional development activities and other resources to gain expertise and/or assume different instruction and leadership responsibilities.
- Effectively collaborate with colleagues in such work as developing standards-based units examining student work analyzing student performance and planning appropriate intervention.
- Demonstrate sound judgment reflecting integrity honesty fairness and trustworthiness and protect student confidentiality appropriately.
- Maintain accurate complete and correct records as required by law district policy and administrative regulations
- Responsible for instructional and general duties as assigned by the Principal Science Coordinator Assistant Superintendents or Superintendent of Schools
At the Woburn Public Schools we are committed to cultivating an environment where diverse perspectives and backgrounds are embraced acknowledging that a team reflecting diversity of race color ancestry national origin religion age gender marital/domestic partner status sexual orientation gender identity disability status and veteran status allows us to serve our communities better. To that end Woburn Public Schools continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a district member of Mass Partnership for Diversity in Education.
Employment Type
Full-Time
