What are the responsibilities and job description for the Elementary School Science Teacher position at Success Academy?
Elementary School Science Teacher at Success Academy
As an Elementary School Science Teacher at Success Academy, you will contribute to a dynamic, supportive educational environment focused on developing students' scientific thinking and literacy. Your role will empower children from diverse backgrounds to engage creatively with scientific concepts and prepare them for future academic success. With extensive training and professional development opportunities, you will advance your leadership skills while making a profound social impact.
About Our Mission
We work tirelessly every day to ensure each child in NYC has access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through the doors of one of our 57 schools in NYC a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.
About Our Science Program
Our Science program ignites a passion in scholars for scientific thinking and curiosity. We develop our scholars as citizens of science, empowering them to engage creatively, critically, and meaningfully with the world around them in ways that are endlessly fascinating, complex, and philosophical.
Key Responsibilities:
- Scholars engage flexibly with different scientific disciplines, compelling them to see engineering, physics, mathematics, chemistry, and biology as all interdependent.
- We also place a strong emphasis on scientific literacy, with special attention to reading, writing, and data literacy.
About Our Team
A background in education is not required. At Success Academy, we provide you with extensive training and a proven curriculum so you can focus on working with your students instead of building lesson plans.
Career Advancement Opportunities
Success Academy gives you unparalleled opportunities to gain valuable professional skills and advance rapidly with leadership opportunities available both in the classroom and outside. This includes writing letters of recommendation at the middle school and high school level. Learn to assess and analyze data to chart your students' growth and achievement, and tailor your own teaching methods accordingly. Engage in professional development opportunities with school leaders to benefit from targeted, in-the-moment feedback and coaching to improve your performance.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree before your first day of work with Success Academy.
- A rigorous and relevant academic major (i.e, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering).
- Ability to work in person in New York City ($2500 stipend for qualified relocations).
Our Culture
You relish literature, science, history, and/or math and independently seek to deepen your knowledge of subjects that interest you; You have experience juggling multiple responsibilities and are able to plan around competing priorities; You have strong instincts for building trusting relationships with people from a wide range of backgrounds;
About Us
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world.
