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Physical Science Teacher (8th Grade) for the 2024-2025 School Year

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Job Title:

Physical Science Teacher (8th Grade) for the 2024-2025 School Year

Job Description:

Hired by and subject to the supervision of the Director of the Upper School, the Upper School Teacher is an exempt position. The teacher, in a formational and relational role, models Christ-like behavior within The Geneva School community as he or she studies, re-imagines, and teaches within the Christian, liberal arts tradition.
We have an opening for a Physical Science (8th Grade) for the 2024-2025 School Year. The opening is a part-time teaching position that covers three sections of Physical Science in 8th grade. The position can be made full-time with benefits by adding additional duties.
Course Description
Physical Science as taught at Geneva is an invitation for students to explore their world through a historical approach that allows them to experience both wonder and thoughtful experimentation. Students delve into the history of the elements-their discovery, their properties, and their practical use in the world. They begin with observation of their surroundings and natural phenomena, then study various historical frameworks describing the physical world, and then learn how these models developed into our current understanding of the periodic table. This historical approach is coupled with observation and interaction with the physical world at every stage so that students have concrete connections to God's good world for the concepts they learn.
In addition to studying the elements, students observe the motion of the heavens by pondering and sketching the night sky. They develop an understanding of patterns of movement here on earth by working with simple machines and accelerated motion. These two different categories of observable motion in the world are united in the end through the lens of Newton's laws of motion.
The main focus of the class is these five big questions:
  1. What do we see in God's good world?
  2. Who has seen this before us and how did they explain it?
  3. How is their explanation different from the modern one?
  4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each explanation?
  5. How is interacting with God's creation teaching us wisdom, and how can we wisely utilize that creation?
Essential Duties
Specific Job Responsibilities:
  • Maintains curriculum maps
  • Displays a clear understanding of subject matter
  • Articulates a Christian worldview in the classroom
  • Implements lesson plans
  • Grades summative assessments thoroughly and in a timely manner
  • Accurately reflect students' mastery of subjects when grading
  • Stimulates students' interest in course work
  • Treats students with respect and refrains from shaming or using sarcasm
  • Maintains an attentive and engaged classroom
  • Manages student behavior effectively
  • Handles discipline in accord with the employee and student handbooks
  • Begins and ends class on time
  • Supports the school's missions, vision, and values as defined in the employee handbook
  • Carries out specific assignments including lunch duty, carpool duty, assigned supervision, committees, and other areas as determined by the Director of Upper School
  • Enforces student policies (e.g. attendance, uniform guidelines, late work policy)
  • Supports the admissions department by welcoming tours and classroom visits
  • Supports development by maintaining a positive attitude toward helping as needed with fund raising efforts
  • Supports registrar by turning in grades and student comments on time
  • Supports the mission of the college counselor by completing student referral letters and keeping him up to date on student issues
Other Job Requirements:
The following requirements are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the Upper School Teacher position and are not intended to be inclusive. Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, as defined by law, to perform any essential functions.
  • Lift 20 lbs. occasionally and 10 lbs. frequently
  • Sit frequently and stand and walk on varied surfaces
  • Bend, stoop, crouch, push, pull, climb, balance, kneel, crawl
  • Use hands/arms to reach in any direction and seize, grasp, hold, and turn objects using hand(s). Use fingers, versus the whole hand, to pick, pinch, and feel objects.
  • See, talk, and hear to communicate with others in person, electronically, by phone, or by radio. Visual functions include the ability to identify and distinguish colors and bring an object into sharp focus.

Position Qualifications:

Required Skills and Experience:
  • Holds at least a 4-year college degree appropriate for the grade levels and content areas in which he or she is teaching (content area degrees for 7-12th)
  • Has at least 2+ years of teaching experience and/or has demonstrated the ability to create a learning community where students are motivated to learn and love learning
  • Has demonstrated the ability to work well with colleagues and communicate clearly and graciously with parents
  • Meets FCIS standards for professional credentials and/or certification
  • Has demonstrated both intellectual and relational talents
  • Will understand fundamentally and support the Christian and classical approach to education practiced at The Geneva School
Intrinsic Qualities:
  • Ascribes to and agrees to live in accordance with The Geneva School's statement of faith
  • Holds oneself to a high standard of honesty and integrity
  • Able to work effectively both in collaboration with other professionals and on own initiative
  • Professional and approachable in appearance and attitude
  • Willingness to learn new skills
  • Self-motivated with a positive ‘can do' approach to work
  • Reliable/dependable
  • Detail-oriented
  • Able to search for solutions
  • Practices good stewardship of the school's resources
  • Enjoys working around children and is able to form and monitor appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people.
Employment Information
The Geneva School prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical disability, handicap, or any other consideration protected by law. Employment decisions will be made on the basis of each applicant's job qualifications, experience, and abilities and in full accord with The Geneva School's statement of faith and the school's statement of mission, vision and values.

Application Deadline

08/16/2024

Job Type:

Part Time

Salary Range:

TBD

General Information

Church/Organization Name

The Geneva School

Contact Name & Contact Info

(321) 422-0228

Industry

Education/Training

Denomination

Non-Denominational

City, State

Casselberry, FL

Description of Organization

The Geneva School is a mission-driven school established in 1993. Our mission is to provide students in grades K4–12 an extraordinary education, by means of an integrated curriculum, pedagogy and culture, both distinctly classical and distinctively Christian, that pursues goodness, truth, and beauty in all spheres of life, while viewing these spheres as elements of divinely ordered whole. Further, Geneva seeks to instill in students a desire to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ's calling. As a mission-driven school, faculty members play a central role in fulfilling our mission.
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Church Name: The Geneva School
Location: Casselberry, FL
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Denomination: Non-Denominational

Job Type: Part-time
Role: Christian Education
Salary: TBD

Date Posted: 4 months ago
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