Middle School Science Teacher

**MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER**

SAS is committed to providing each student with an exemplary American educational experience with an international perspective. Central to this work are our school-wide strategic priorities. We are seeking educators who share our passions and who wish to collaborate, innovate, and make a positive difference within the SAS community. The strategic priorities to which we are committed are as follows:

- As a school, strengthen relationships and foster an inclusive culture based on our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Educators develop greater expertise in using high quality, culturally responsive practices to plan, teach, and assess.
- Educators, students, and families are prepared to transition to improved or new learning, work, and community spaces.
- Educators support students in the key social-emotional learning areas identified by CASEL: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.

**Position Qualifications**
- 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.

**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 students' physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being.
- 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 reports 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**
- Utilize Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) consistently to plan, teach, and assess student learning.
- Use an inquiry-based approach to science that strengthens conceptual understanding, nurtures and sustains curiosity, builds transferable skills and dispositions, or develops student agency.

**Terms of Employment**
Salary and benefits shall be paid consistent with the SAS-approved compensation plan for Teachers.

**Evaluation**
Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the
Board’s policy on evaluation of personnel.