Middle School History Teacher

Description

About Bronx Arts

Bronx Charter School for the Arts (Bronx Arts) is a public school founded on the principle that a rich and vibrant background in the arts is a key component of achieving academic excellence. We strive to serve as a model that encourages creativity and innovation in the classroom and inspires students to develop the intellectual and personal fortitude to realize their dreams. Our elementary school is located in Hunts Point and middle school is located in Soundview. At Bronx Arts, students receive daily instruction in theater, dance, music, and visual arts, and lessons in these subjects are integrated into the academic curriculum.

Opportunity Summary

The Middle School History Teacher is responsible for ensuring all students in grades 6-8 achieve both academically and socially at high levels in their discipline.

Student Achievement

• Plans purposefully in order to provide individual students with opportunities for constructing meaning and developing understandings of academic concepts.
• Utilizes developmentally appropriate and rigorous curricula and instructional materials that are tightly aligned to Bronx Arts’ benchmarks and New York State standards.
• Presents students with new ideas and concepts through a variety of strategies, and inspires and guides them to explore, express and uncover new ideas of their own.
• Administers, collects, and analyzes both qualitative and quantitative data gathered from a variety of assessments on each student.
• Reflects regularly on data from student assessments alone and with colleagues, administration, or students’ families in order to inform his or her work, modify practices, and increase student achievement.
• Collaborates with inclusion teachers to design and execute individualized instructional plans for students with special needs in order to ensure they achieve academically at high levels, and are fully included in the Bronx Arts community; and, to foster a rich experience for all students in inclusion.
• Collaborates with the inclusion and Arts teachers in designing and co-teaching lessons that integrate the arts into other content areas and classroom routines when appropriate in order to promote the arts and improve student achievement.
• Builds relationships with his or her students’ families through regular communication about students’ progress and ways in which families can support their children’s learning.
• Researches, develops, and shares resources and materials with other staff members.

School Culture

• Build a classroom culture in which students love history, and maintains the school’s high social expectations for students as defined by the Bronx Arts operating principles.
• Participates in the on-going effort to establish a school culture that reinforces the school’s mission, goals, and operating principles within all aspects of the Bronx Arts community.

Human Resources and On-going Development

• Actively works to improve his or her own practice in order to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for excellent instruction and to generally increase his or her effectiveness in the organization.
• Actively strives to embody the operating principles in his or her work.
• Operates according to the professional standards of the school, which are defined in detail within the schools’ staff policies and procedures handbook.
• Takes responsibility for the success of the organization by maximizing all opportunities to further the mission of the organization within the school, broader Hunts Point, and New York City communities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required; Master’s Degree preferred.
• Minimum of two years teaching experience in their discipline is required.
• NYS teaching certification or pending in their discipline and/or meets NYS certification eligibility requirements.

Compensation

Compensation packages are competitive and commensurate with experience. Benefits include: Health, Paid Time-Off, Short & Long-term Disability, Life Insurance, Commuter Benefit Program. Optional benefits include: Retirement Investment (403b Plan), Dental Insurance, Vision Plan, and Medical Flexible Spending Account.

Bronx Arts is an equal opportunity employer. Bronx Arts does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin.

Salary : $60,000 - $95,000