High School English Teacher

The SACS School Teacher accepts the mission of San Antonio Christian School as a personal calling, which is to partner with families to provide students a Christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. The teacher’s goal is to help students learn skills and subject matter that will contribute to their development as mature, able, and responsible Christians to the praise and glory of God. Teachers are responsible for teaching and educating students according to the educational needs, abilities, and attainment potential of individual students entrusted to their care by the Parents, Principals, Head of School, Assistant Head of School, and the Board of Directors. This position is instrumental in sustaining a school environment that is safe, encouraging, and fosters the development of the student. This person shall be spiritually mature and shall instill a life of Faith, Character, and Academic Excellence in our students.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities for this position, but are not limited, to:

Planning and Preparation for Learning

• Anticipate student uncertainty when planning and preparing lessons.
• Assess the learning of students on a regular basis and provide progress reports at established times.
• Uses a variety of informal and formal methods of assessments to measure student learning, growth, and understanding.
• Create relevant lesson plans that motivate and inspire students to learn.
• Demonstrate a clear-cut understanding of the curriculum, subject content, and the developmental needs of students.
• Develop, plan, and use appropriate instructional and learning strategies, activities, materials, and equipment and reflect an understanding of the learning styles and needs of students assigned. Create a curriculum map for the school year. Develop standards-based unit and lesson plans. Prepare and provide the front office emergency lesson plans/materials for 2 days to include current and accurate information.
• Actively engaged in ongoing curriculum mapping. (LMS)

Classroom Management

• Establish clear expectations for classroom rules and procedures early in the school year and enforces them consistently and fairly.
• Create and maintain a clean, attractive, safe, and collaborative learning environment that motivates students to take academic risks, challenge themselves, and claim ownership of their learning.
• Formulate and follow a classroom management/discipline plan based on the school’s philosophy of discipline.
• Use materials that are aligned with instructional purposes and are appropriate for students’ learning styles and needs.
• Establish and maintain a positive rapport with students and demonstrate respect for an interest in all students.
• Create and maintain an environment in which students’ diverse backgrounds, identities, strengths, and challenges are respected.
• Know the procedures for issues of an emergency nature. Assist with required emergency safety drills in coordination with school leadership. Report to the appropriate individuals on campus safety, health, and maintenance needs that are observed.

Delivery of Instruction

• Present material/content and purpose correctly in a logical, coherent fashion to support the learning objectives.
• Employ a variety of instructional aides, teaching techniques, and materials that will provide for creative teaching to reach the whole child: spiritual, mental, physical, social, and emotional.
• Use instructional practices that reflect high expectations regarding content and quality of effort and work; engage all students; and personalize to accommodate diverse learning styles, needs, interest, and levels or readiness.
• Establish challenging and measurable goal(s) and objectives for student learning that aligns with standards. Demonstrate how the goals fit into the broader unit, course, and school goals for content learning and skills.
• Transition from one learning unit to another with minimum loss of instructional time.
• Use verbal and nonverbal strategies and focus techniques to elicit students’ thinking process.