Theology Teacher

Description

School Name: Cristo Rey High School
Location: 1228 S 38th St, San Diego, CA 92113
Reports to: Principal
Employment Type: Full Time
FLSA Status: Exempt
Pay Rate: $56,000 - $85,000 (Depending on Experience)

Are you hard-working and passionate about helping all students graduate from high school and college? Are you inspired by the transformative capacity of Catholic education? Are you courageous, energetic, optimistic, and quick to recognize the good in every student? Are you an empathetic listener who builds trusting relationships with students, parents & families, and colleagues? Are you committed to growth, interested in implementing feedback to continuously improve?

Are you organized and efficient, able to fulfill varied responsibilities in a fast-paced environment?

If so, Cristo Rey San Diego High School needs your talent to enrich our supportive, college-bound learning community, serve families who embrace bold dreams for their children, and inspire students to lead through service to others.

Cristo Rey San Diego High School is the 37th school in a growing national network of Catholic high schools recognized for transforming Catholic education through a unique integration of rigorous academics, professional experience, and spiritual formation. Cristo Rey’s innovative model calls for our students to attend class four days per week and work in a professional setting five days per month through our Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP many of our students will enter high school below grade-level academically, it is the collective mission of our staff to ensure that our students gain admission to—and ultimately graduate from—college.

In pursuit of that goal, Cristo Rey has a longer school day and an extended academic year, and our teachers innovate, plan, reflect, and practice so that they maximize their impact in the classroom.

As part of Cristo Rey’s motivated and collaborative teaching staff, you will educate students in mind and spirit. Through engaging, data-informed instruction that effectively incorporates technology to enhance learning, you will ensure all students are academically prepared for college, reflective about their learning in both the classroom and the Corporate Work Study Program, and embody a growth mindset approach to their learning.

Your commitment to excellence will help form a student body distinguished by breakthrough achievement gains, a passion for justice, and ability to perform in the professional world. In the Catholic tradition, you will create opportunities for students to act, reflect, and grow as they become persons for others. Ultimately, by giving generously of yourself, your gifts, and your time, you will help grow a school that serves its students’ diverse needs and cultivates their many talents.

• Execute rigorous, standards-driven, high-impact, culturally relevant lessons through effective teaching practices that accelerate student content growth as well as faith and character development.
• Use formative and summative assessments of and response to student proficiency of grade level content.
• Provide frequent opportunities for students to read, write, speak and collaborate with peers to demonstrate understanding of new content.
• Support multilingual learners through frequent opportunities to read, write, speak about and listen to challenging texts that encourage collaboration.
• Use of technology to enhance teaching and learning.
• Provide targeted one-on-one and small-group tutoring to students in class, during after-school learning support, and via other instructional support opportunities.
• Actively build an understanding of each student as an individual in the spirit of cura personalis (care for the whole person); forge strong relationships with students and parents and communicate frequently with families to increase the investment and partnership that will enable students to flourish.
• Consistently uphold school-wide discipline practices and routines as well as norms for student behavior.
• Maintain an organized and vibrant classroom environment that supports student learning and conveys warmth, order, and a feeling…