Chemistry Teacher (SY 26-27)

Position: Chemistry Teacher (SEI Endorsement Required)

Position Type: Full-time

Department: Secondary

Location: Watertown High School

Reports to: Science Curriculum Coordinator and Building Principal

Affiliation: WEA Unit A

Salary range: Per the WEA Unit A Salary Scale

General Description:

Responsible for instruction on various topics and levels in chemistry through dynamic and engaging lessons and lab experiments.

Responsibilities:

• Instruct students at a secondary school at the college prep honors and AP level.
• Create a positive educational climate for students to learn in.
• Create instructional resources for use in the classroom.
• Plan prepare and deliver dynamic instructional activities.
• Create projects designed to enhance lessons.
• Design for and implement with inquiry-based lab experiments students.
• Meet course and school-wide student performance goals and use school-wide rubrics.
• Attend and participate with colleagues in faculty meetings department meetings IEP meetings etc.
• Collaborate with science department staff to create implement and review common assessments laboratory experiments and other learning activities.
• Create lesson plans and modify accordingly throughout the year to meet individual students goals including special education students and English learners.
• Grade assignments and perform other administrative duties as needed.
• Utilize curricula that reflect the diverse educational cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the students served.
• Tutor students on an individual basis.
• Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities.
• Observe and evaluate students performance using formative and summative assessments.
• Manage student behavior in the classroom by invoking a variety of classroom management techniques.
• Initiate and participate in two-way communication with families about students performance throughout the school year.
• Promptly communicate student concerns to curriculum coordinator guidance department support staff and building administration.
• Participate in evening events including Back to School Night and fall and spring parent-teacher conferences.

Curriculum Planning and Assessment

(Subject Matter Knowledge Well-Structured Lessons Curriculum and Planning Indicator Child and Adolescent Development)

• Demonstrates mastery of and enthusiasm for the content area and the pedagogy it requires.
• Can convey a grasp of child development and how students learn.
• Designs effective and rigorous standards-based units of instruction consisting of well-structured lessons with measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrates mastery of related subject matter instructional skills and resource materials for the course(s) taught.
• Utilizes lesson plans and units of instruction aligned with current state and district standards which drives instruction through formative assessment and differentiation.
• Utilizes a variety of effective instructional and management techniques.
• Provides a variety of assessments and uses assessments for planning and instruction.
• Provides consistent immediate feedback to student learning and asks analytical questions that elicit students responses that incorporate prior knowledge life experience and interests that are directly related to the content objective.

Teaching All Students

(Meeting Diverse Needs Student Engagement Safe Learning Environment)

• Uses instructional practices that are likely to challenge motivate and engage all students and facilitate equitable active student participation.
• Builds a productive learning environment where every student participates and is valued as part of the class community.
• Cultural Proficiency

• Actively creates and maintains an environment in which students diverse backgrounds identities strengths and challenges are respected.
• Monitors and maintains a positive classroom environment that supports the school-wide behavior expectation in which most students are engaged incorporates mutual respect and provides cooperative learning opportunities.
• Uses available technology/instructional media to enhance the students learning experiences.
• Maintains a safe organized classroom which supports students independent learning collaboration and choice.

Family and Community Engagement

(Parent/Family Engagement)

• Engages with families and builds collaborative respectful relationships with them in service of student learning.
• Professional Reflection & Collaboration
• Establishes and maintains appropriate relationships with students parents staff and community members by communicating in a tactful courteous and confidential manner.
• Appropriately communicates and interacts with other professional staff in academic planning and school committee work.
• Attends and participates in staff meetings and school-related activities and committees.

Professional Culture

(Reflective Practice Professional Collaboration)

• Regularly reflects on practice seeks and responds to feedback and demonstrates self-awareness and commitment to continuous learning and development.
• Seeks to participate in and contribute to a collaborative adult learning community.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuous professional growth and works with the administrator to formulate and complete professional growth plans.

Qualifications Required:

• Education: Hold a bachelors degree.
• Holds a valid Massachusetts Teaching License in Chemistry at the appropriate grade level and SEI endorsement.

Preferred:

• Masters Degree in Education

• Dual certification in ESL

• Relevant teaching experience
  

Physical Demands:

• Regularly required to sit stand walk talk hear operate a computer hand-held learning devices and other office equipment reach with hands and arms and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Watertown Public Schools is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race color religion national origin pregnancy gender identity sexual orientation marital/civil union status ancestry place of birth age citizenship status veteran status political affiliation genetic information or disability as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.

Required Experience:

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