Middle School Life Science SPED Teacher

Middle School Life Science Special Education Teacher

Anticipated Opening for the 2026-27 School Year

Classification:
Exempt

Reports to:

Upper School Associate Director and Middle School Dean

Annual Salary Range: $65,000-$89,000

The Quad Preparatory School is looking for a full-time sixth‑grade life science teacher for the  school year. The teacher will provide academic instruction and social‑emotional support to students in the sixth grade in collaboration with our clinicians. Our rooms consist of less than ten students, and our teachers also have one‑to‑one instructional time with their students once a week. Our students have a wide range of learning abilities.

• Plan and implement high‑quality, engaging life science lessons that are differentiated to meet the learning needs of the students.
• Regularly assess the students and the curriculum, adapting content and instruction as appropriate; communicating assessment results to parents.
• Subscribe to and implement the school’s philosophy of progressive and personalized education for twice‑exceptional children.
• Collaborate with K‑12 science teachers to ensure a vertically aligned science program.
• Support students during co‑curricular programming that occurs during the school day.
• Create and maintain an orderly and aesthetic learning environment that accounts for students’ social, emotional, and executive functioning needs.
• Maintain accurate records using both our school’s learning management system as well as carefully managed portfolios of student work to illustrate and record progress and achievement.
• Empower students to take charge of their learning by providing all necessary scaffolding, modeling, materials, and resources, and consistently maintaining a high level of expectation for student success.
• Collaborate with other academic staff and psychosocial staff members to plan, integrate, and facilitate cross‑curricular, inquiry‑based projects.
• Communicate with parents and guardians to provide feedback on pupils’ academic and social‑emotional progress through parent‑teacher conferences, written reports, phone calls, and emails.
• Follow the professional code and policies of the school and conduct oneself in a way that promotes the mission of the school.
• Utilize technology:
  Veracross student management system, Google Classroom, and Google Suite, in particular Google Calendar, Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets.
• Attend all faculty and staff meetings, professional development sessions, and required special events (e.g., Curriculum Night, open houses, parent‑teacher conferences).
• Perform other duties as assigned, including, but not limited to, teaching electives, serving as an academic advisor, and/or leading a student club (during the school day).

• Bachelor’s degree in science, science education, elementary education, special education, or a related field.
• Minimum of 1 year paid teaching experience with upper elementary or middle school students.

• Experience as an upper elementary or middle school science or special education teacher.
• Master’s degree in science education, special education, elementary education, science, or a related field.
• Special education training, including training in the areas of gifted education and twice‑exceptional youth.
• Secondary Science, Elementary Education, and/or Special Education teaching credential.
• Experience teaching twice‑exceptional youth.

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