# High School Social Studies Teacher (26-27 SY)

**Company**: Challenge Preparatory Charter School
**Location**: Queens, NY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: Full-time
**Salary**: USD 62,000-100,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

Challenge Preparatory Charter School is seeking a High School Social Studies Teacher for the 26-27 SY. The teacher will deliver exceptional instruction and assess student growth, while being dedicated to constant learning and providing academic and cultural support to the school and team.

## Essential Duties and Responsibilities include:

- Assume a high level of personal responsibility for the progress of all students

- Create academically rigorous and culturally relevant lesson plans, materials, and assessments, and differentiate as needed

- Execute specially designed lesson plans that are guided by clear objectives, focus on conceptual understanding, and are assessed routinely for student mastery

- Teach engaging, rigorous, and relevant lessons daily

- Communicate effectively with all stakeholders, including scholars, families, and staff

- Commit to a school culture of consistency by implementing school-wide systems, structures, and procedures while reflecting on one's own implicit biases

- Reflect on various data sources to improve practice

- Take on a proactive role in creating a positive, structured, results-oriented, and fun school that supports the needs of students of various abilities and experiences

- Collaborate with colleagues to create, implement, and refine schoolwide and classroom-based systems, routines, and procedures

- Ensure that classroom time is utilized through sound management practices and by developing strong and trusting relationships with students

- Develop, implement, and/or manage individualized behavioral intervention plans to support students in meeting established academic and non-academic goals

- Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen their own pedagogical skills as well as contribute to the learning of colleagues

- Contribute to the school's smooth and efficient operation by fulfilling required administrative duties and responsibilities and maintaining open and proactive communication with colleagues

## Skills, Qualifications, and/or Competencies Required:

- Dedicated to working in communities that have historically been underserved and under-resourced

- Committed to thoughtfully engaging in identity work necessary to take a culturally responsive approach to pedagogy and relationship-building with students and colleagues

- Exceptional level of patience and focus to overcome challenges and achieve results

- Strong classroom management skills

- Classroom presence: clear and precise when sharing new content with students and can effectively lead students through inquiry-based class discussions

- Detail-oriented, and highly organized

- Bachelor's degree required in education or History-related field, Master's Degree in Education, preferred

- New York State Teaching Certification required

- Strong understanding of History and how to apply skills to real-world problems

- Experience working with high school school-aged children in an academic or youth development setting

- Experienced teachers must show a proven track record of achievement in the classroom

## Benefits & Compensation

- Salary range: $62,000 - $100,000 per year

- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, as well as a 403(b) retirement benefit package with match and Paid Family Leave

- Flexible spending accounts for health, dependent care, and transit

## Skills

### Required
- classroom management
- lesson planning
- student assessment
- communication
- data analysis

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Education
- New York State Teaching Certification
- experience working with high school students

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