Cycle Teacher; Grades 6-8

Position: Cycle 3 Teacher (Grades 6-8)

Cycle 3 Teacher (Grades 6–8)

Position Type:
Full-Time, 190-Day Position

Salary & Benefits:

Salary per Riverview Charter School Salary Schedule; eligible for South Carolina PEBA insurance and retirement benefits

Reports To:

Director of Upper Grades

Position Summary

Riverview Charter School (RCS) seeks highly qualified, reflective, and collaborative educators to serve as Cycle 3 Teachers (Grades 6–8) within a fully departmentalized middle school model. Cycle 3 teachers guide students through a critical developmental period as they transition from elementary learning structures to increased academic independence, rigor, and global awareness.

Grounded in Riverview’s mission and philosophy of learning by doing, Cycle 3 teachers design and facilitate rigorous, standards-aligned instruction within a single content area while supporting students’ intellectual growth, identity development, and understanding of their place in an interconnected world. This role reflects the expectations of accomplished teaching as outlined in the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) Five Core Propositions.

Cycle

3 Conceptual Framework:
World

Throughout Cycle 3, students explore the concept of World, examining the global stage and South Carolina’s role within it. Instruction integrates historical, cultural, scientific, geographic, and civic perspectives to help students understand how communities, cultures, and individuals are interconnected and shape both history and the future.

• Grade 6:
  Ancient civilizations and world religions;
  Classical Greece; the Roman Empire;
  Europe and the Middle Ages.

• Grade 7:
  Geography of world regions and global systems.

• Grade 8:
  South Carolina’s role in the nation and the world, culminating in an international Capstone experience.

Middle school science deepens this exploration through the study of Earth’s geological history; plants and animals; energy; waves; weather and climate; cells and heredity; disease and human body systems; ecology; and Earth’s biological diversity, structure, and processes—emphasizing interdependence and symbiosis within planetary systems.

Instructional Model & Departmentalization

Cycle 3 operates within a fully departmentalized structure. Each grade level includes four teachers specializing in one of the following content areas:

• Mathematics

• English Language Arts (ELA)

• Science

• World Cultures

Teachers instruct one content area only and teach multiple sections of that subject. Teachers are responsible for delivering instruction to general, advanced, gifted/talented, and honors-level courses, as applicable.

Course Assignments

Mathematics

• Grade 6:
  General Math, Advanced Math, Accelerated Math

• Grade 7:
  General Math, Advanced Math, Geometry with Statistics Honors

• Grade 8:
  General Math, Geometry with Statistics Honors, Algebra I Honors

English Language Arts

• Grade 6:
  General ELA;
  Advanced/Gifted & Talented ELA

• Grade 7:
  General ELA;
  Advanced/Gifted & Talented ELA

• Grade 8:
  General ELA;
  Advanced/Gifted & Talented ELA;
  English I Honors

Science

• Grades 6–7:
  General Science

• Grade 8:
  General Science;
  Earth Science

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
1. Commitment to Students and Their Learning

(NBPTS Proposition
1)

• Foster inclusive, respectful classroom environments that support adolescent development and student voice.

• Support increasing student independence, responsibility, and academic ownership.

• Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners across ability levels.

• Implement best practices in gifted and talented education to challenge and extend high-performing students.

2. Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy

(NBPTS Proposition
2)

• Demonstrate deep content knowledge within the assigned subject area.

• Design rigorous, standards-aligned instruction using the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework.

• Develop pacing plans to ensure coverage and mastery of all South Carolina state standards.

• Integrate executive functioning, study skills, organization, and stewardship into instruction.

3. Management and Monitoring of Student Learning

(NBPTS Proposition
3)

• Use a variety of assessments, including SC READY, end-of-course exams (as required by the SCDE), i-Ready, MAP, and classroom-based assessments.

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