High School Math Teacher; Grades 9-12

Position: High School Math Teacher (Grades 9-12)

Frontline Applicant Tracking - Barack Obama Green Charter School

• Position Type:
  High School Teaching/ Mathematics
• Date Posted: 11/11/2025
• Location:
  
  Barack Obama Green Charter High School
• Closing Date: 12/31/2025

High School Math Teacher
* As defined in N.J.A.C 6A:9B-9 Instructional certificates

Qualifications

• Valid New Jersey Instructional Certificate and Subject Area Endorsement or eligibility
• Demonstrated knowledge of subject specialty and effective teaching methods
• Ability to maintain a positive learning environment
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Required criminal history background check and proof of U.S. citizenship or legal resident alien status
• Current residency in New Jersey, approved residency waiver or candidate agrees to obtain residency within one year of employment

Reports To

Principal/Designated Administrator

Supervises

Students, and when assigned, student teachers and classroom aides

Job Goal

To provide an approved education program and establish a class environment that fosters learning and personal growth; to help students to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for continued education; and to maintain good relationships with parents and other staff members.

Performance Responsibilities

• Develops lesson plans and classroom learning activities
• Works to achieve the New Jersey Student Learning Standards and district educational goals and objectives by promoting active learning in the classroom using board-adopted curriculum, board-adopted curricula and textbooks, and other appropriate learning activities.
• Develops lesson plans and instructional materials and provides individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each student.
• Sets specific objectives wherever possible in lesson preparation and weekly lesson plans and carries through presentation to effectively achieve these objectives.
• Plans class activities and lesson presentations that are age-appropriate for the class and meet the individual needs, interests and ability levels of all students.

Instruction and Student Contact

• Monitors student academic progress and personal growth toward stated objectives of instruction.
• Maintains records of student's educational progress in class record books and/or board approved forms and summarizes these marks for reporting purposes.
• Identifies student needs and provides instruction appropriate to those needs.
• Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior needed to achieve a classroom climate conducive to learning.
• Budgets class time effectively.
• Devises written and oral assignments and tests that require analytical and critical thinking as well as the reproduction of facts.
• Supervises students in out-of-classroom activities as assigned.

Contact with Parents and Community

• Communicates with parents through conferences and other means to inform them about the school program and to discuss student progress.
• Makes effective use of community resources to enhance the instructional program.

Professional Contacts and Activities

• Cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and resolving learning problems.
• Maintains professional competence and continuous improvement through in-service education and other professional growth activities.
• Participates in school-level planning, faculty meetings/committees and other school system groups.

Other

• Upholds and enforces school rules, administrative regulations and board policy.
• Performs other duties within the scope of his/her employment and certification as may be assigned.

Employment Conditions

Contract year: September 1st to June 30th of the school year.

Evaluation: In accordance with the Board of Trustees adopted method of evaluation.

Date of Revision: Approved.

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