Middle School Social Studies Teacher

Singapore American School

**Job Description**:
**MIDDLE SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER**

Our vision at SAS explains why we exist. We aspire to be a world leader in education, cultivating exceptional thinkers prepared for the future. We are committed to our mission that has been at the heart of our 65-year history: to provide each student an exemplary American educational experience with an international perspective.

If there is one thing we know about the future, it is that our students will graduate into a rapidly changing, increasingly global world where their success will depend to a large degree on their ability to learn new skills, take on new challenges, and work with a diverse range of people. We aim to build a strong sense of joy and purpose in learning among our students to enable them to do so.

We know that our students’ future success will depend on their ability to develop skills such as critical thinking, creativity, and cultural competence. And, it will depend on the quality of the moral character they develop. We seek to personalize learning for every child to meet their unique learning needs. We know that supporting them in their social-emotional growth is as important as their academic growth. And, we seek to stimulate that growth in a community as rich in equity and inclusion as it is in the extraordinary diversity of our students. Our ability to attract, retain, and develop diverse talented educators, working collaboratively in teams, is vital to our success.

**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.

**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

**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.