Education ​/ Teaching, STEM, Science Teacher

Del Rio, United States | Posted on 08/25/2026

The Integrated Physics and Chemistry (IPC) High School Teacher is responsible for planning, delivering, and assessing rigorous, engaging, and standards-aligned instruction for high school students in Integrated Physics and Chemistry. The teacher will provide instruction aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Integrated Physics and Chemistry, as adopted by the Texas State Board of Education and codified in 19 Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Chapter 112.

The teacher will create a safe, inclusive, and academically challenging learning environment that develops students’ understanding of fundamental concepts in physics and chemistry while strengthening scientific inquiry, engineering practices, mathematical reasoning, data analysis, problem-solving, and evidence-based communication. Instruction will connect scientific concepts to real-world phenomena and prepare students for continued success in high school science, college, career, and technical education pathways.

• Plan, prepare, and deliver daily instruction aligned with the current Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Integrated Physics and Chemistry (IPC).
• Develop and implement rigorous lessons that integrate foundational concepts from both physics and chemistry.
• Provide instruction in applicable IPC content areas, including:
• Scientific and engineering practices
• Recurring themes and concepts in science
• Matter and its properties
• Atomic structure and chemical interactions
• Chemical reactions and energy changes
• Motion, forces, and Newton’s laws
• Work, energy, and power
• Mechanical and electromagnetic waves
• Electricity and magnetism
• Thermal energy and heat transfer
• Conservation of energy and matter
• Relationships among scientific principles, mathematics, technology, and real-world systems
• Design instruction that emphasizes conceptual understanding and the application of scientific principles to solve problems.
• Incorporate hands-on investigations, laboratory experiments, demonstrations, scientific models, simulations, engineering design challenges, technology, and real-world applications.
• Help students make meaningful connections between physics and chemistry concepts.
• Integrate appropriate mathematical reasoning, measurement, graphing, data analysis, proportional relationships, and scientific notation into instruction.
• Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners, including students receiving special education services, English learners, students requiring intervention, and students needing enrichment or acceleration.
• Scientific and Engineering Practices
• Provide students with regular opportunities to engage in scientific inquiry and engineering design.
• Teach students to ask questions, identify scientific problems, and define engineering challenges.
• Guide students in planning and conducting appropriate descriptive, comparative, experimental, and engineering investigations.
• Teach students to select and safely use scientific tools, technology, models, and measurement equipment.
• Develop students’ ability to collect, organize, analyze, interpret, and communicate qualitative and quantitative data.
• Provide instruction in the use of tables, graphs, mathematical models, and other representations of scientific information.
• Guide students in constructing explanations and developing solutions supported by scientific evidence and reasoning.
• Teach students to evaluate evidence, identify relationships and patterns, and communicate scientific conclusions effectively.

• Integrate recurring themes and concepts throughout IPC instruction,…