BIOLOGY TEACHER

Summary

Academic teachers provide a rigorous, standards driven curriculum to a diverse group of students with ongoing monitoring to ensure all students meet high levels of academic achievement.

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Teach: Implement district learning goals and objectives using appropriate curriculum; Implement research-based district curriculum that challenges student learning; develop student capacity to think and investigate.
• High Expectations: Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, equity, and high expectations for all students with an emphasis on building on the strengths that students bring to the teaching/learning process and closing the achievement gap between subgroups within the school
• Professionalism: Model professional behavior that addresses job responsibilities, district policies and procedures, and the expectations of professionals working in a multi-lingual, multi-cultural, and economically diverse community
• Safe, Respectful and Culturally Sensitive Learning Environment: Build and maintain safe, fair, and respectful learning environments that celebrate the diversity of the student population
• Family Partnerships: Initiate and maintain consistent communication and develop constructive partnerships with families communicating about student progress and ways the families can support the student at home
• Community Partnerships: Initiate and maintain consistent communication and develop constructive partnerships with community members, and agencies, building on their strengths and recognizing them as co-educators
• Instructional Planning and Implementation: Plan instruction and employ strategies that address the wide range of learning, behavioral, and communication styles of the student population; Demonstrate cultural proficiency and use effective and culturally relevant instructional practices; Integrate technology into the classroom as an instructional tool and for personal productivity
• Content Knowledge: Have extensive knowledge of the content including, but not limited to, key concepts and facts, relevant research, methods of inquiry, and communication styles specific to the respective discipline(s)
• Assessment of Progress: Use a variety of assessment tools and strategies to gather data to monitor student mastery of instructional content, to improve instruction, and to assess the comparative performance of subgroups within the classroom
• Reflection, Collaboration and Personal Growth: Reflect on practice in collaboration with administrators and colleagues, monitor personal and professional growth, and pursue professional development in needed areas

 Other Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform other functions appropriate for the position as assigned.
• Duties listed in this job description are intended only as illustration of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from this position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

 Education and Experience

• Hold a Bachelors degree
• Hold a Massachusetts teaching license at the appropriate grade level
• Meet all state and federal guidelines in order to be fully licensed and Highly Qualified
• Current authorization to work in the United States.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Physical Demands

• Ability to sit and stand at desk for an extended periods of time.
• Ability to physically move about to assist students with science laboratory activities, including the appropriate and safe care of any science equipment and chemicals needed for said labs.
• Ability to work and finish tasks under required deadlines.
• Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 15/20 pounds.
• Required finger/hand dexterity for computer keyboard entry.
• Travel between campus and off-campus sites.
• Some evening work hours
• Close vision ability.
• Listen and talk when interacting with others either in person or by telephone

Terms of Employment

10 month position.

Reports to/Evaluated by

Reports to Academic Assistant Principal.

Evaluated according to Collective Bargaining Agreement.