IB Chemistry Teacher

Working pattern:Full-time
Duration of contract:10-month contract

Founded in 1982, United World College-USA is one of 18 United World College (UWC) campuses worldwide and the only campus in the United States. The UWC movement seeks "to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future." As such, UWC-USA values and promotes all manners of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access as part of our fundamental mission to bring people together across differences in service of a more peaceful and sustainable world.

Our students are selected through national committees in more than 150 countries, and nearly 85% of our students are on scholarships, ensuring unparalleled national and socioeconomic diversity in our student body. With expeditionary, place-based, and experiential learning at the centre of our academic programme, and a strong residential curriculum in our multicultural boarding environment, UWC-USA encourages its students, faculty and staff to learn and grow in an open community dedicated to democratic processes as reflective of our country's location and traditions.

UWC's mission began in response to the international tensions of the Cold War. Its mission to bring young people together before their prejudices are solidified, in service of peace and a sustainable future, is as important as ever. In the world our students know, the main obstacles to unity remain differences in identity that too often separate us from one another: nationality, culture, language, religion, ethnicity, race, gender, and sexual identity.

The main obstacles to peace and sustainability today are not entirely new either, but the globalising forces of our age have reshaped them. No matter where our students come from, they increasingly see these challenges up close in local, national or international settings:

• Economic, political, and social inequality between those at the centre and those on the margins of societies worldwide;
• Political polarisation rooted in ideology, grievance, and uneven democratic practice/ institutions;
• Climate change, ecosystem destruction, and biodiversity collapse resulting from destructive modes of production, consumption, and land use.
• Accelerated technological innovation that alters our relationships to information, work and one another.

Beginning in the 2025 academic year, the educational programme at UWC-USA will seek to prepare students for these four global challenges by taking students out of the classroom to meet with organisations and institutions in northern New Mexico on a bi-weekly basis. For learning to prepare young people for these challenges of the future, we are committed to ensuring that they graduate from UWC-USA with contextualised, real-world understandings of the complexities of the challenges ahead.

UWC-USA is looking
for an experienced and committed IB Physics and Chemistry Teacher.

IB teachers contribute to the school’s mission across our full programme: they teach academic courses and assume related responsibilities; they sponsor co-curricular program activities; they lead learning expedition outings (and so much be able to drive a 15-passenger van); and they support residential life in formal and informal ways. Teachers fulfil their responsibilities in accordance with the UWC mission and values as well as the school’s strategic plan, foundational documents, IBDP authorisation, Independent Schools of the Southwest (ISAS) accreditation, and best practices in teaching and learning.

All teachers are employed on a 10-month agreement that runs from 1 August to 31 May and are paid over the course of 12 months. Their summer and winter holiday travel plans should not interfere with their professional obligations at the beginning of August, mid-December, early January, and late May.

• Teachers carry 4 IB courses/1-4 class “preps” throughout the year.
• Teachers are responsible for creating and maintaining a 2-year scope and sequence, a syllabus, and unit planning documents that are accessible to the Dean of Teaching and Learning, Group Chair, and students for…