What are the responsibilities and job description for the Part-Time Latin Teacher 2025-2026 position at Trinity Classical Academy?
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Job Summary
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Mission
The Mission of Trinity Classical Academy is to offer a challenging education grounded in the Christian faith and the Classical tradition to produce young men and women of virtue, wisdom, purpose, and courage.
Cultural Values
Trinity Classical Academy's cultural values include peacemaking, honest humility, constant zeal, habitual excellence, intentional relationships, and kingdom service. These values inform how the organization operates and should be reflected in all aspects of work at the school. The cultural values at Trinity Classical Academy encourage a commitment to learning, excellence, and the well-being of all members of the community. The school is dedicated to providing an elite Christian, classical education that serves all members of the body of Christ and works to grow the classical, Christian education movement.
Qualifying Characteristics
The candidate is a Christian with an authentic and a mature personal relationship with Jesus Christ in both their professional and personal life with a calling and commitment to Christian education. Qualified candidates will support our School’s Mission, while representing our Cultural Values.
Summary
Trinity Classical Academy seeks candidates for a Latin teacher position in its Upper School Department. The department’s goal is to build students’ skills in reading Latin so they can help our culture remember the wisdom and beauty of our classical, medieval, renaissance, and early modern past and be empowered to bring light from that wisdom and beauty to our contemporary problems. Qualified candidates will be models in their lives and abilities of what they teach. They will demonstrate a commitment to improving their craft as a teacher.
Essential Skills and Abilities
Education and Experience
- Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts Degree (Classics Major preferred)
- Previous experience is preferred
Essential Skills and Abilities
- The ability to teach the Latin language as appropriate to the curriculum
- Experience in and committed to classical pedagogy
- The ability to integrate knowledge, skills, and methods across disciplines as part of the holistic education
- Preference will be given to those that are well-read and conversant in the Western canon and have a substantial knowledge of the Trivium
- Excellent oral and written command of the English language
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, faculty, and students of diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds
- Competence in educational technology (Word processing, online management software, etc.)
- Excellent organizational skills
Qualifications
- Familiarity with classical pedagogy and Christian worldview integration
- A strong commitment to the emphasis and philosophy of Trinity Classical Academy
- Positive support of the school's policies and practices
- Service oriented and able to interface with many people
- Truthful, positive, and purposeful when communicating with others
- Flexible and adaptable in dealing with new, different or changing requirements
- Multitasking in an environment with many distractions is a must
- Must successfully pass a background investigation
Working Conditions
- Working Environment: indoors in a comfortable temperature-controlled classroom environment and is typically free from dust and hazardous materials
- Generally works in a group environment; noise level is typically low with the exception of times between class periods.
- Requires standing for long periods of time; will include frequent walking and sitting
- Able to make visual and auditory evaluation of students work and performance
- Physical Demands: Must be able to sit for extended period of time, repetitious hand and body movements, simple grasping, fine and gross motor skills. Stand and walk when administering care. Must be able to bend, squat, kneel, push, pull and lift up to 20 pounds. Must be able to climb one flight of stairs
- Mental Demands: Ability to work well under pressure; ability to maintain a level of professionalism and calm when others are behaving inappropriately
- Use of computer/monitor screen; projector and other classroom equipment
- Travel: Travel will be required for local field trips
Work Schedule
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Schedule to be determined by the Upper School Principal
Salary : $22,000 - $34,000