About This Role
Teaching science in a high school environment is the core of this role, guiding and encouraging a diverse group of students to fulfill their academic potential. The teacher designs learning experiences, monitors student progress, and manages student behavior both inside and outside the classroom. This position suits an educator who can promote a challenging, equitable, empowering, and developmentally responsive environment for students transitioning from adolescence to young adulthood.
Responsibilities
- Establish a safe and supportive environment that is conducive to learning and enables each student to demonstrate agency, ownership, and reflection
- Design and implement authentic and engaging learning experiences using the Virginia Standards of Learning, LCPS curriculum, and effective strategies to maximize student achievement using a variety of instructional materials
- Design authentic and engaging learning experiences using a variety of resources and technology to promote the development of critical thinking, collaboration, and problem solving
- Personalize instruction based upon the needs of students and manage time to maximize student learning opportunities
- Assess student growth as related to educational goals, objectives, and outcomes
- Adhere to LCPS Assessment and Grading policy and guidelines
- Analyze assessment data to refine teaching and learning experiences and inform instructional practices
- Continually communicate with students and parents/guardians to keep them informed of the students
- Manage the behavior of learners in an instructional setting to ensure that the environment is conducive to learning; assist and participate in managing student behavior in other parts of the school, center, school grounds, or work site
- Plan instructional activities with other professional staff, both school- and non-school-based, to maximize learning opportunities
- Support colleagues, students, parents and community stakeholders to promote student learning and student mastery of content and competencies
- May direct the work of teacher assistants, student teachers, and volunteers to provide an effective learning environment
- Participate actively in the school
Requirements
- Bachelor
- Holds or eligible for a Virginia teaching license, with an endorsement in appropriate subject area
- Demonstrated knowledge of subject content, curriculum, and methodology of effective teaching
- Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional programs
- Skilled in the use of multi-media and computer technology to enhance learning
- Ability to establish and maintain effective collaborative relationships with students, peers, administrators, and parents
