What are the responsibilities and job description for the Upper School English Instructor position at The McCallie School, Inc?
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Founded in 1905 and serving nearly 1,000 day and boarding students from 28 states and 19 countries, McCallie is one of the country's premier independent schools and a national leader in educating boys in grades 6-12. McCallie takes an expansive view of education, seeking to form the whole boy. In his journey to manhood, McCallie comes alongside the student and supports his mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional development.
During a time of strength, momentum, and growth, McCallie seeks a dynamic Upper School English teacher with broad liberal arts training. The teacher should be student-focused, a good writer, and an experienced classroom teacher. The teacher will join a strong English department that engages boys and trains them to think clearly, to write persuasively, and to read critically. By interacting with a variety of fiction and non-fiction works and by using a variety of teaching methods, the English Department introduces boys to other cultures, helps them to develop empathy and compassion for others, encourages them to understand themselves and their world more deeply, and challenges them to live moral and ethical lives by better understanding and communicating their own stories and their own critically reasoned and well-informed voices.
The teacher will teach four to five sections and will also be involved in the school's extensive afternoon activity program, coaching a sport at a junior varsity or varsity level or involved in one of the many extracurricular activities that McCallie offers.
This is a ten month, full-time position. It is considered exempt and eligible for full benefits.
Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate :
- passion for and experience teaching both reading and writing at a high level and through a variety of teaching strategies;
- an ability to write well;
- willingness to work cooperatively within a strong department, within course teams, and along vertical course sequences;
- a depth of intellectual inquiry, research, or study in a particular area of relevance to the English curriculum;
- a breadth of liberal arts training (e.g. in history, sociology, philosophy, religion, etc.) and capable of making cross-disciplinary connections.
Requirements
Applicants must have :
Additional qualifications or characteristics desired, but not required, include :
