Math Teacher

Contract Length: 1 year

Number of Vacancies: 4

Student Level:

- Middle School, High School
- Licensed Teacher

**Requirements**:

- Education Required: Bachelor
- Minimum Teaching Experience: 0 year of teaching experience
- Major: Mathematics
- Required Certificates:
- Teaching Credential/License**Professional Appraisal and Staff Development**:

- Seek and participate in opportunities for professional growth
- Support the emphasis on ongoing professional learning to further develop knowledge of pedagogy and teaching practice
- Perform additional duties required by the administration that are consistent with the purposes and responsibilities contained in this job description.
- Actively work and support the MKS growth process.

Job Benefits:

- Settle in allowance
- Shipping allowance
- Medical insurance
- Transportation to/from school

**Job Description**:
**Teaching**:

- Create an environment of respect and rapport, engaging students actively in their own learning.
- Communicate clearly and positively, showing flexibility and responsiveness
- Address the needs of students with different levels and abilities
- Use prescribed curriculum framework with curricular standards
- Use a range and balance of teaching strategies
- Utilize developmentally appropriate instructional strategies
- Use a variety of resources for pursuing open-ended inquiry
- Recognize the importance of cultural heritage
- Maintain constant awareness of the needs of second language learners
- Provide prompt, regular, and appropriate feedback to students/parents by maintaining accurate records for each student
- Use technology to optimize learning

**Planning**:

- Plan collaboratively, based on the agreed curriculum framework, standards, and instructional goals.
- Create learning units with the end of mind (backward design)
- Involve students in planning their learning and assessment
- Build upon students' prior knowledge and experience and accommodate a wide range of ability levels
- Use varied and appropriate resources
- Maintain accurate records including lesson plans and grade books

**Assessing**:

- View planning, teaching, and assessing as interconnected processes
- Use a range and balance of assessment strategies and documentation
- Assess the levels of student’s current experience and understanding before embarking on new learning
- Enable students to see assessment as a means of describing their learning and involving students and colleagues in the assessment process
- Involve students in shared reflection during and at the end of each unit
- Ensure students fully understand how their grades are determined
- Maintain records of regular parental contact
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure that the results of an assessment provide a link to further curriculum development

**Student Care and Support**:

- Provide a safe environment for the student at all times, in and out of the classroom
- Efficiently carry out supervision responsibilities
- Support the moral, social, and emotional development of each child
- Demonstrate positive attitudes of tolerance, respect, and integrity by example
- Celebrating multicultural and national identities in our community
- Gain insight into students through communication and partnership with families and colleagues