Middle School Social Studies Teacher

2 days ago

Woodlands, Singapore Singapore American School Full time

**Middle School Responsibilities**
- Strengthen relationships and foster an inclusive culture in all interactions across the community (i.e., colleagues, students, parents).
- Cultivate a caring and culturally responsive learning community in Advisory, as well as the classroom, taking into account physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of students.
- Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world issues, and a culturally responsive curriculum.
- Design quality formative, summative and self-guided assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicates students’ growth and achievement.
- Plan and implement engaging learning experiences that are inquiry-based, collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated.
- Respond to learners' diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions.
- Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback with one another, and engages in professional learning and reflection.
- Design and implement inquiry-based learning experiences in and beyond the classroom to prompt learners to question, investigate, create, and reflect.
- Experience with or interest in co-teaching in a flexible learning environment.
- Integrate technology in innovative ways in daily instruction to enhance learning.
- Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.).
- Strive for continuous self-improvement as a life-long learner.

**Role Specific Responsibilities**
- Understands what constitutes social studies and leverages the overarching themes/concepts drawn from the discipline to design social studies curriculum
- Integrates knowledge across social studies and other disciplines (e.g., science, English/language arts, math, physical education/health) into interdisciplinary units
- Understands and develops students’ disciplinary literacy across social studies content areas (history, geography, economics, civics) and draws inspiration from the social sciences (psychology, sociology, anthropology)
- Investigates and explores research-based practices, current literature, and problems/issues of current interest and importance in social studies education

**Position Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree with a valid teaching credential in content area and/or for position
- Dual certification preferred but not required.
- Two to five years of current teaching experience in a similar context or transferable to the posted position.
- Experience with high-quality practices, materials, and instructional strategies connected to our strategic priorities.

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