What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior High History Teacher (Grades 7-8) position at The Vanguard School?
Junior High History Teacher (Grades 7-8) for 2025-2026 School Year
Salary: $45,000 per year, based on qualifications.
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Status: Exempt Regular Full-Time
Annual Days: 196
Start Date: July 25, 2025
Degree Transcripts/ Diploma must be included in your application for consideration.
Job Product: Student understanding of history that furthers the development of character and intellect.
General Purpose: The Junior High History teacher is responsible for developing students’ academic excellence and virtue by creating a positive culture of inquiry and learning and providing students with challenging and meaningful learning activities and experiences.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Subject matter knowledge
- United States political principles, institutions, and processes, their history and development
- United States History: indigenous people of North America; European settlements and colonies; the American Revolution; expansion, reform, and economic growth of the United States up to the Civil War; the Civil War and Reconstruction; European immigration, industrialization, and scientific and technological progress; the two World Wars; and the United States from 1945 to the present
- Government: similarities, differences, key concepts, and implications of various forms of government throughout history and around the world
- Principles of American government and the Founding Documents of the United States
- Methods and Sources for Research in History
- Ongoing awareness and understanding of world and U.S. current events and their context from a historical perspective
Plans curriculum and instruction
Delivers effective instruction
Manages classroom climate and operation
Promotes achievement
Meets professional responsibilities
Other Duties and Responsibilities: As needed or assigned
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor degree, preferably in History, with at least 24 semester hours in content area (or Praxis).
Experience:
Prior teaching experience is not required
Salary:
$45,000 per year, based on qualifications.
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) a lifetime monthly benefit in retirement.
DISCLAIMERS
- You are required to disclose relevant issues related to criminal history, employment history, and licensure history in order to apply.
- All employees must submit to and pass a CBI / FBI fingerprint background check as a condition of employment.
- The Vanguard School is subject to all federal and state laws and constitutional provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, or ancestry in its programs and activities.
- Applicants who upload a copy of their transcripts or certifications to their application may choose to redact any dates included on the transcripts or certifications, including date of birth and dates of attendance/graduation/completion. An un-redacted copy will be requested if an employment offer is extended. In addition, submitted resumés may also exclude dates of attendance or graduation for high school and/or post-secondary education.
Salary : $45,000
