What are the responsibilities and job description for the Middle School STEM Teacher position at Biddeford Schools Department?
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JobID: 2964
Position Type:
Middle School Teaching
Middle School Teaching
Date Posted:
4/15/2025
4/15/2025
Location:
Biddeford Middle School
Biddeford Middle School
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Specific Job Details:
Starting Fall 2025
This Stem program one of the district's most innovative, cutting-edge instructors, leading our middle-level robotics program as an integral part of the middle school's innovative STEM program. The successful candidate will be an innovator and bring his or her own ideas, experience, and expertise to bear on the framework adopted by the district.
School Description:
The Middle School serves grades 5-7
We expect staff and students to embrace challenges and strive to attain excellence while exemplifying Tiger PRIDE: Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Dependability, and Empathy.
Find Biddeford School Department's Three Pillars of Commitment to Students attached.
Brief Job Duties:
The ideal candidate will have experience in the following areas:
1. A successful candidate understands that STEM education in general, and robotics in particular,is the nexus of scientific inquiry and engineering design. Helping students understand how scientific knowledge develops, and encouraging investigations, modeling, trial and error, and the testing of hypothesis in which each of the four disciplines of STEM converge in the field of robotics is a top priority.
2. Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior needed to create a classroom atmosphere conducive to learning.
3. Regularly assesses each student’s academic and social growth, maintains appropriate and timely records, and prepares progress reports.
4. Communicates with parents through conferences and other means such as newsletters, email, phone calls, student information system postings (as applicable), web pages, blogs, and other electronic means to discuss student’s
progress as it relates to curriculum
.Full Job Description
Certification/License
Eligible for appropriate Maine Department of Education certification. (680 or 700)
Education:
Bachelors from an accredited college or university in education or related discipline applicable to teaching assignment.
Masters Degree in related area preferred.
Experience:
Successful prior teaching experience for the appropriate grade levels is preferred but not required.
Live and Work in the Biddeford, Maine Community
Equal Opportunity
The School Department is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The district shall actively work to have the teacher and administrator workforce reflect the student body's diversity.
The School Department's selection will be based on those with the highest capabilities, the most vital commitment to quality education, and the greatest probability of effectively implementing the learning program.
Therefore, selections will be made without consideration on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, marital status, parental status, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, membership in an employee organization, military service, political affiliation, and any other state or federal prohibitions.
For this policy, "sexual orientation" means a person's actual or perceived heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, or gender identity or expression.
Criminal Background Check
All employees of Maine schools must be fingerprinted for a criminal history background check. Please create a Department of Education log-in and make an appointment for a fingerprinting appointment at https://www.maine.gov/doe/cert/fingerprinting
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Biddeford Schools
Dayton School
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