History Teacher

Position Title: History Teacher

First commitment: July 1, 2025

Contract type: Permanent, 10-month

School Type: Boarding

Reports To: Assistant Head/Dean of Faculty

Position Summary:

St. Mark's School seeks a skilled and creative history teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. The ideal candidate will have two or more years of experience teaching multiple levels of high school history. By equipping our students with the foundational skills of communication, critical thinking, and cooperation over self-interest, we advance our goal of preparing students for their future. Educators with these skills and the desire to contribute to a vibrant boarding school community through coaching, advising, and residential life are encouraged to apply.

As a history teacher, you will be a member of the history and social sciences department and report to the head of the department and the assistant head of school/ dean of faculty. We invite interested candidates to apply by completing an application at this link.

What You’ll Do as a St. Mark’s History Teacher:

As a St. Mark’s faculty member, you will teach four history courses, advise three to six students, attend all-school and faculty-required events, coach two seasons of sports. Other key responsibilities are as follows:

• Design and implement curriculum in collaboration with teams of colleagues in the History Department
• Provide students in the classroom with timely, ongoing, and meaningful feedback, including comments for each student at the end of grading periods
• Support a residential house team by supervising evening hours once weekly and five Saturday nights per year
• Participate in St. Mark’s Experiential Learning Programming
  • Teach one season of Saturday classes
  • Teach a Lion Term course
• Participate in community life through Social Duty (four weekends per year)
• Give up to six admission tours per year

Required Skills and Abilities

• A degree in history or a related, interdisciplinary field
• Ability to teach history from beginning to advanced levels
• Enthusiasm for work with adolescent students in multiple contexts
• Outstanding task and time management skills with high attention to detail
• Strong leadership, collaboration, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Proficiency with computer applications such as Google Suite, including Docs, Slides, and Sheets

Preferred Qualifications

• Two or more years of experience designing and delivering assessments and curriculum materials in history.
• Experience in an educational setting, including familiarity with residential communities and the needs of adolescents
• Success working with culturally diverse populations as well as a commitment to inclusive pedagogy
• Commitment to continuous self-reflection and professional growth
• The school seeks individuals who are excited to contribute to our co-curricular programming, in particular, coaching or directing an athletic offering at the varsity level.

Things You’ll Love:

• On-campus housing; health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement contribution – after one year of service, the school contributes 10% of your annual salary to a 403 (b) retirement plan (100% immediate vesting); three meals a day are available at the dining hall during the school year for you and your family; use of facilities for you and your immediate family: weight rooms, outdoor pool, ice rink, basketball courts, nature trails, etc.; annual financial planning services available; parental leave: 8 weeks at full pay, and 4 weeks at a quarter pay; Health Assistance Program; Employee Assistance Program; tuition remission (100%); Child Day Care financial assistance program; William A. Coolidge Fund – annual financial assistance for each employee’s child attending tuition-charging schools, etc.

Salary:

• Pay is commensurate with experience. For reference, please find the base salary bands for faculty members whose primary responsibilities are in the classroom below:

• Years of experience between 31 and 40 years: $90,100 - $94,900
• Years of experience between 21 and 30 years: $70,890 - $89,850
• Years of experience between 11 and 20 years: $56,670 - $68,900
• Years of experience between 0 and 10 years: $27,810 - $53,770

About St. Mark’s School:

St. Mark's School is a coed, private boarding high school of approximately 375 students with a strong, college preparatory curriculum located 22 miles west of Boston and 12 miles east of Worcester. St. Mark's School educates young people for lives of leadership and service. Founded in 1865 as an intentionally small residential community, the School challenges its students to develop their particular analytic and creative capabilities by both inspiring their academic and spiritual curiosity and kindling their passion for discovery. We value cooperation over self-interest, and we encourage all members of our community to explore their place in the larger world beyond our campus.

St. Mark's School provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, classics, national origin, gender, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or genetics, and any other characteristic or status protected by law.

Salary : $27,810 - $53,770