High School PE & Health Teacher

Position Responsibilities

• Demonstrate experience with current best pedagogical practices, current teaching materials and current instructional strategies.

• Utilize SHAPE America National Health standards and CASEL competencies to inform curriculum planning, instruction, assessment, and student learning.

• Demonstrate willingness to be open to teaching a variety of different PE & Health courses

• Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world connections, and a culturally responsive curriculum

• Design quality standards-based formative, summative, and self-assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicate students’ growth and achievement

• Plan and implement engaging, inquiry-based, collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated learning experiences in and beyond the classroom that prompt learners to question, investigate, create, and reflect

• Respond to learners’ diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions, including flexible, rigorous, and adaptive Tier I instructional practices that allow students with diverse language and learning styles to effectively access learning

• Creatively leverage flexible learning spaces and flexible grouping to provide for a variety of learning styles, ability levels, and educational backgrounds

• Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback, and engages in professional learning and reflection

• Actively engage in professional learning and growth through regular observation and feedback cycles, walkthroughs, and reflection with Professional Learning Community Coach and Principals, and participate in external opportunities

• Cultivate a caring and culturally responsive learning community in Advisory, as well as the classroom, taking into account physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of students and while teaching our advisory social-emotional learning curriculum

• Strive for continuous self-improvement as a lifelong learner

• Model the Core Values in your interactions with all members of the school community

• Lead and engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the learning spaces, which extend learning experiences for students (i.e., travel on Interim Semester, sports coaching, field trips, sponsorship of clubs, attend events beyond the school day, community service projects, etc.)

• Facilitate restorative conversations when supporting student behavior in the learning environment

• Connect with and be available to parents and students during and outside of school hours (in person and via email communication)

Position Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field

• Master’s Degree in relevant field preferred

• Teaching license or a degree in education

• At least two years of full time teaching experience preferred

• Standards-based curriculum experience preferred

• Expertise with teaching health education preferred

• SHAPE and CASEL curriculum experience preferred

• Excellent verbal and written English language skills

• Confident technology skills for teaching and administrative tasks

Working Requirements

• Sponsoring and/or coaching after school activities are part of the responsibility of the professional educator. Therefore, faculty shall be available to coach and/or sponsor an athletic team or other extra curricular activity. Each faculty member is expected to do a minimum of one category 1 activity or sport per year.

• Mandatory attendance of school orientation

• Chaperone and participate in a minimum of four evening and/or weekend school activities each year, as assigned (including "Back-to-School Night").

• SAS faculty members are expected to commit to chaperoning learning experiences including those requiring overseas and/or overnight excursions, including but not limited to Interim Semester.