What are the responsibilities and job description for the Upper School Mathematics Department Head position at The Lovett School?
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Reports to : Upper School Division Head
Primary Responsibilities :
- Carry out all department chair and teaching responsibilities in order to engage, inspire, and challenge faculty and students consistent with Lovett's core values, mission, and whole child education model.
- Lead, oversee, and evaluate department's curricular design, opportunities, and effectiveness.
- Provide primary mentoring, supervision, assessment, and evaluation of department faculty in the Upper School in coordination with the Assistant Head of Upper School for Teaching and Learning and Head of Upper School.
- Recruit and hire new department members in partnership with the Assistant Head of Upper School for Teaching and Learning.
- Foster constructive communication across all school constituencies.
- Ensure efficient departmental operation.
- Design purposeful curriculum as a classroom teacher, using multi-modal instruction and a variety of assessments in order to reach a diverse community of learners (academically, culturally, racially, religiously, etc.).
- Teach 2 sections of mathematics classes.
- Serve as an advisor to approximately 10 students from 9th through 12th grade; providing a sustained adult relationship to support their academic and personal growth, meeting daily to open school, providing primary academic advising, point of contact for parents, and mid-semester student-parent conferences. Attend assemblies and chapels with advisory each rotation.
- Take part in the life of the School outside of the classroom through athletics, fine arts, extracurricular activities, or other Upper School responsibilities.
- Participate in faculty, department, team, and grade-level meetings as called.
- Fulfill additional duties as assigned, including occasional responsibilities that may occur on weekends and evenings (e.g. parent night, graduation events, admission open houses, and student or faculty interviews).
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