Secondary School (6th-12th Grade) Teacher Opportunity

Logic and Rhetoric School Teacher Position

The Logic and Rhetoric Teacher is a full-time, 10-month position with responsibilities for teaching. The ideal candidate will bring a history of collaborative, self-directed work as well as experience teaching in a classical Christian school.

The ideal candidate deeply understands and appreciates the benefits of a classical Christian education, particularly one taught through a Biblical worldview. This role is based in Chisago City, MN. In our busiest seasons, the candidate may have to work longer than normal hours to be successful in the role. Position reports to Veritas Academy’s President.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Spiritual Leadership - The teacher is expected to consistently exhibit love, joy, peace, and spiritual maturity before his or her students and the rest of the school. The teacher is expected to be a student and lover of the Bible, God's only written Word. He is to use the school's curriculum guide and the Bible in constructing his or her daily classes. Active, joyful participation in any school events, staff meetings and school assemblies are expected.

2. Classroom Management/Environment - The teacher is expected to maintain a neat, organized, clean, and stimulating classroom environment for his or her students. This implies that the students will take an active part in cleaning and maintaining their room's appearance. The teacher should set up simple, manageable class routines to accomplish basic tasks, e.g., taking attendance, homework collection, daily cleaning schedules, materials storage, and distribution, etc.

3. Lesson Preparation and Presentation - The teacher should have a thorough knowledge of and interest in the subjects he or she is assigned to teach. These will normally include Bible, reading, mathematics, science, grammar, composition, spelling, handwriting, history and geography. Also, in most grammar grades a working knowledge and interest in Latin, art, music, and physical education is necessary, though these may be taught by other specially trained teachers. All subjects should be taught utilizing the objectives, materials, priorities, and methods prescribed in the Veritas Academy Grammar Curriculum Guide. The teacher is expected to encourage the students to see how all subjects are interrelated, as parts of God's integrated universe. Clear language and appropriate vocabulary are also expected.

4. Classroom Decorum and Discipline - The teacher should be very familiar with and able to apply the spirit, as well as the letter, of the school rules. An orderly (not necessarily silent) working atmosphere is to be the norm. Students should be aware of the class and school rules and be encouraged to exercise self-discipline. When administrative discipline is necessary, the teacher is expected to accompany the student to the office and give the administrator an accurate accounting of the student's offense. The teacher is expected to diffuse and deal with corrective discipline situations within his classroom.

a) Comprehension checks

b) Rephrasing of concepts by students

c) Inductive questioning (Questions designed to help the student move toward the correct conclusions)

d) Recitations, chants, songs, acronyms, summaries, and reviews

e) Illustrations, applications, demonstrations

5. Student Learning - The teacher should seek to stimulate and maintain the students' interest in the material. Recognition and reasonable compensation for individual needs is also necessary. A variety of techniques (in addition to testing) should be used to measure the students' progress (see the Lost Tools Chart). The grammar school curriculum guide is to be used as the basis for measuring the overall progress of the class and individual students.

6. Planning and Communications - The teacher's weekly and quarterly plans should reflect creativity and a good use of class time. Copies of the weekly lesson plans are to be turned in each Friday to the administrator. The Curriculum Guide should be used to establish weekly, quarterly, and semester plans. The teacher is to regularly (at least twice each month) communicate with the parents in his class. Emphasis should be placed on getting to know the families well, as well as letting them know what is happening in the class. The parents should feel welcome to visit and assist in the classroom.

7. Professionalism - The teacher is to demonstrate pride consistently and joyfully in Veritas Academy by his or her work, punctuality, speech, attitude, dress, and attention to duties.

8. The Seven Laws of Teaching, as set forth in the work of John Gregory by the same title, must be regularly and thoroughly implemented into lesson plans, and should be evident in the classroom.

9. Work environment/dynamics: Teacher works in a classroom environment, but also oversee students during recess and lunch.

10. Work year: This position is a full-time position that works 10 months a year.

11. Schedule for evaluation: Teachers will be evaluated annually by the appropriate principal. A new teacher will have a 60-day evaluation during the first semester of employment.

Qualifications

• Teaching experience in a classical Christian school desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in content area preferred.
• Ability to demonstrate growth mindset, optimism, and belief that all students are created in the image of God, and they can learn.
• Ability to innovate and think creatively about education.
• Ability to use and adapt to a wide array of technological tools to support and deepen student learning and instruction.
• Ability to work as part of a team with collegiality and humility.
• Dedication to personal and professional growth, especially in classical education methodologies.

Physical Requirements:

• Standing, walking and sitting for long periods of time
• Extensive typing on QWERTY style keyboard
• Extensive viewing of lighted computer monitor
• Speaking and hearing
• Reaching and bending
• Lifting up to 25 lbs
• Using hands to perform tasks
• Working in standard office conditions with and near electronics

Instructions:

• Send an initial email expressing your interest.
• Completed the Application for Employment that you will receive if we are interested in pursuing you.
• Submit application with a professional resume and cover letter.
• Research classical Christian education before your interview.

Who we are
Veritas Academy is an accredited private classical Christian school based in North Branch and Chisago City, Minnesota and is open to carefully selected students ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to 12thgrade. The Academy is a member of the Association of Classical and Christian Schools (ACCS).

Veritas Academy’s Mission

We exist:

For students: Equip them to lead with clarity and virtue, and to become mature adults who value truth, acknowledge God’s beauty, and do good.

For teachers: Affirm them in their calling as educators, support their maturing in Christ, and empower them to be effective and productive in the classroom.

For parents: Collaborate with them in the responsibility of educating their children.

For our community: Support our great community while modeling excellence, integrity, and service to others.

Veritas Academy’s Core Values

Grace: God’s love and holiness lived harmoniously

Excellence: Noble living

Character: Blameless in God’s eyes

Knowledge: Cultivating wisdom in pursuit of Truth

Ownership: Active stewardship, personal responsibility

Veritas Academy’s Statement of Faith

• God

We believe in one Triune God: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. He is the Creator of all things, and He is the only Supreme Being.

• Jesus Christ

We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, one person, fully God and fully man.

• The Holy Spirit

We believe The Holy Spirit indwells believers and continues to work in them to bring

about sanctification.

• The Bible

We believe that all Scripture (The Bible) is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. The Bible consists of 66 books: 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.

• The Human Condition

We believe that by nature, we are all sinners and turn from God. But through Jesus’s love and faithfulness, sin is atoned for. And through the fear of the Lord, evil is avoided.

• Sanctity of Life

We believe that all human life is sacred and created by God in his image.

• Marriage, Gender, and Sexuality
• We believe that God creates each person as male or female (Gen. 1:26-27).
• We believe Biblically that the term “marriage” means the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. (Gen. 2:18-25.)
• We believe that every person must be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect, and dignity. (Mark 12:28-31; Luke 6:31.) Hateful and harassing behavior or attitudes directed toward any individual are to be repudiated and are not in accord with Scripture nor the doctrines of Veritas Chapel, Veritas Academy, and all Veritas related ministries.
• Christ's Return

We believe in the return of our Lord Jesus Christ at a time known only to God.

• Response and Eternal Destiny

We believe that eternal life is a gift from God given to those who receive it through faith in Jesus Christ (1 John 5:11-12).

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $54,883.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $54,883