Position: Science Teacher
Status: Exempt (Salary)
Salary & Benefits: This is a full-time, permanent, career position. The salary range is $45,000 - $52,000 commensurate with experience. The agency benefit package includes health, life, and disability insurance, retirement plan, and bonus program.
Position Summary: The West Town Academy (WTA) Teacher will work under the direction of the Principal, Director of Teaching and Learning, and the Academic Dean.
Position Responsibilities:
- Curriculum: Develops, adapts, and implements existing curriculum maps, scope and sequence, course syllabi, and lesson plans to instruct students in measurable ways in the core areas and competencies.
- Instruction: Utilizes effective, research-based instructional practices that support student learning. This includes Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Constructivist Learning Theory. Also the teacher will select, maintain and use materials, equipment, technology, and facilities to maximize student learning opportunities.
- Competency-Based Education: Responsible for assessing the network competencies and utilizing practices that align with Competency-Based Education.
- Project-Based Learning: Responsible for developing units that are project-based.
- Grading and Assessment: Responsible for utilizing Master Connect, grading rubrics, and Power Teacher Pro. Rubrics are consistently used when assessing students. Teachers also administer, score, and interpret diagnostic, progress, evaluation, and test practice examinations in assisting students to perform, understand, and learn from examinations.
- Science Courses: Responsible for teaching two of the five science classes offered per semester: Integrated Science I, Integrated Science II, Integrated Science III, Topics in Science, and Unified Science.
- Classroom Management: Maintains sound classroom management using deescalating and restorative practices both in and out of class. Also, the teacher models best practices of academic performance and social skills.
- Other Duties: Responsible for other duties as needed including, but not limited to, student management, grading, phone calls, tracking attendance, participating in professional develop, professional learning communities, and develops and turns in weekly lesson plans.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree, with 2+ years’ experience preferred.
- A strong commitment to community service and familiarity with community education.
- Bi-lingual Spanish a plus, but not required.
- Certification or being enrolled in a certification course is required.
To Apply: Qualified candidates should submit a detailed cover letter and resume demonstrating how they meet or exceedeach qualification/ requirement. Submit your materials via e-mail or mail to: jobs@gwtp.org. Please clearly indicate which position you are applying for in the subject line of the e-mail. If you prefer, you can mail your application materials to us at:
Human Resources
Greater West Town Community Development Project
500 N Sacramento Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60612
About Greater West Town:
Greater West Town’s continuum of services to community residents includes:
- GWTP’s Vocational Training Program: Hands-on skill training, career counseling, and job placement in two high-growth economic sectors—Woodworking & Solid Surface Manufacturing, and Shipping & Receiving.
- GWTP’s West Town Academy alternative high school and Youth Employment programs: Pioneering initiatives that address Chicago’s longstanding and persistent high school dropout crisis and reclaim some of our community’s most at-risk youth. GWTP Youth programs help young people earn their high school diploma, continue to post-secondary education and/or advanced technical training opportunities, and find permanent career-path employment.
- GWTP’s Adult Employment Services Program: Provides comprehensive skills assessment, career counseling, support services, and direct job placement to unemployed people to enable them to rejoin the workforce and to ensure their success in the workplace.
GWTP is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $56,500.00 - $58,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Work Location: In person