Middle School Science SPED Teacher

Job Details

Location:

New York, New York
Type:
Full Time
Annual Salary Range: $65,000-$89,000
Classification:
Exempt

Reports to:

Upper School Associate Director and Middle School Dean

• 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 the 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 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.

• Love for working with middle school students
• Desire and ability to work with students with special needs
• Knowledge, understanding, and strong interest in life science
• Ability to connect with middle school students
• Lesson planning and the ability to provide engaging and differentiated instruction
• Effective oral and written communication
• A solid understanding of adolescent academic, social, and emotional development
• Attention to detail
• Maintaining confidentiality and privacy
• Ethical conduct
• Time management and the ability to multitask
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Patience and flexibility

• 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.

This job operates in a school setting located on the fifth and sixth floors of a building with an elevator. The role requires working in various locations around the school and occasional travel to the Lower School campus approximately two blocks away.

Regular speaking and listening are required. The position is active and involves continuous standing, walking, and climbing stairs. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move items under 20 pounds. Typing is required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This is a full-time exempt…