Job description:
Experience Desired: Successful student teaching experience. Prior teaching experience is preferred but not required. Knowledge of relevant technology
Other Requirements: Excellent verbal and written communication. Self-motivated with high energy and excellent interpersonal relations skills. Good organizational, critical thinking, and planning skills. High work standards. Good problem-solving and decision-making skills. Healthy stress tolerance with flexibility and adaptability. Initiative and learning orientation.
Physical Requirements This position requires regular periods of speaking, standing, walking, sitting, crouching, reaching, pushing/pulling, and writing. Lifting and carrying up to twenty-five pounds.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES:
Articulate and advance the Catholic identity for the school system through example, collaboration, encouragement, and reinforcement.
Plan, prepare, and deliver instructional activities that facilitate active learning experiences.
Develop schemes of work and lesson plans.
Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities.
Prepare classroom for class activities.
Provide a variety of learning materials and resources for use in educational activities.
Identify and select different instructional resources and methods to meet students’ varying needs.
Instruct and monitor students in the use of learning materials and equipment.
Observe and evaluate student’s performance and development.
Assign and grade class work, homework, tests, and assignments.
Provide appropriate feedback on work to students.
Encourage and monitor the progress of individual students.
Maintain accurate and complete records of student’s progress and development.
Update all necessary records accurately and completely as required by law, district policies, and school regulations.
Prepare required reports on students and activities.
Manage student behavior in the classroom by establishing and enforcing rules and procedures.
Maintain discipline following the rules and disciplinary systems of the school.
Apply appropriate disciplinary measures where necessary.
Perform specific pastoral duties, including student support, counseling students with academic problems, and providing student encouragement.
Participate in department and school meetings and parent meetings.
Communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues, and parents regarding student progress and student needs.
Keep updated with developments in subject area, teaching resources, and methods and make relevant changes to instructional plans and activities.
Adhere to all school policies, handbooks, and regulations.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits:
Application Question(s):
Work Location: In person
Mission
The mission of Saint Thomas More Academy (STMA) is to serve families and the Church by helping our students develop the intellectual, moral, and theological virtues. STMA graduates will have grown in wisdom enlivened by charity. The ultimate purpose of an STMA education is that our students know and love God eternally, and serve Him and their neighbors in this life through their personal vocations.
To this end, STMA provides a rigorous education in the classical liberal arts, the fine arts, and the sciences that is rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition. The source and summit of each school day is the offering of the Mass. STMA is an apostolic community devoted to the pursuit of wisdom through a culture marked by freedom for excellence, the beauty of truth, and friendship in Christ.
Our Vision
Students at Saint Thomas More Academy are inspired to imitate our patron in his magnanimity, love of the truth, awareness of his divine filiation, capacity for friendship, and heroic charity. As we help our students grow, we look to three of Saint Thomas More’s educational principles:
Virtue must be put in the first place, and learning in the second. If one’s loves are disordered, it is impossible to see reality clearly.
Every human being has inclinations to truth, goodness, and beauty that are part of the nature of the soul. But these are given as seeds to be developed, and because of original sin, contrary inclinations impede them. The work of education is to cultivate the garden of the soul, planting and nurturing true principles and noble loves, and constantly weeding out pride, ignorance, sloth, and all other vices.
Children must be taught “to seek not praise, but utility” (“Letter to William Gonell,” 1518). In other words, we do not want our students to be motivated by the desire to impress others, but rather by the sincere desire to serve them