Description
High Tech High seeks a Middle School Humanities Teacher to join the teaching team at one of our five middle schools. Humanities teachers integrate both subject areas (English and History) in order to foster a deeper understanding of content in a purposeful learning environment.
Teachers at HTH strive to design learning experiences that reflect the HTH design principles of equity, personalization, authentic work, and collaborative design. With support and guidance from their school communities and director, teachers are responsible for designing and facilitating meaningful project work as well as creating and maintaining learning environments where students feel a sense of belonging, cultivate and expand their curiosities and passions, explore their identities and the identities of others, do work that matters, and grow as readers, writers, mathematicians, scientists, makers, artists, engineers, interdisciplinary problem solvers, question askers, friends, collaborators, and world changers.
Under the general supervision and guidance of the School Director, Teachers are responsible for preparing lesson plans and educating students. Their duties include assigning homework, grading tests, and documenting progress. Teachers must be able to command their classroom and reach students with an engaging project-based curriculum.
The ideal candidate would possess the following competencies:
- Ability to efficiently and effectively manage the time of self and others
- Ability to work with professionalism, discretion, sound judgment, equity, honesty and personal accountability at all times
- Possesses strong written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional administrative and organization skills
- Proficient knowledge of teaching strategies and methods
- Ability to incorporate goals, competencies and objectives into lesson plans in ways that directly apply to student's lives
- Critical thinking skills
- Ability to manage diversity
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree
- Valid California Single Subject or Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential depending on assignment or Out-of-state teaching license.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance (elective)
- AFLAC supplemental insurance (elective)
- Section 125 Flexible Spending Account (FSA) (elective)
- California State Teacher Retirement Plan (CalSTRS) (mandatory)
- 403(b) Plan and group life insurance (elective)
- No cost after-care for K-8 HTH students of staff members;
- No cost Teacher Induction for certificated staff