Middle & Upper School Humanities Teacher
The McCallie School, Inc.
Location
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Quick overview
The teacher will instruct history and English primarily for 6th through 9th grade students, focusing on engaging boys through varied teaching styles, including project-based learning. Responsibilities also involve working cooperatively within course teams and along vertical course sequences.
Requirements summary
Candidates must possess a Bachelor's degree and prior teaching experience, along with a deep understanding and support for McCallie's mission, including its Christian foundation and commitment to honor, truth, and duty. Preference is given to those passionate about teaching boys, skilled in writing instruction, and possessing broad liberal arts training.
Job description
Description Founded in 1905 and serving nearly 1,000 day and boarding students from across the United States and all over the world, McCallie is one of the country’s premier independent schools and a national leader in educating boys in grades 6-12. McCallie takes an expansive view of education, seeking to form the whole boy. In his journey to manhood, McCallie comes alongside the student and supports his mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional development.
McCallie is seeking a teacher capable of teaching history and english at the middle and upper school levels, primarily 6th -9th grade levels. The teacher should have broad liberal arts training with general comfortability with world history and methods of instructing writing. The teacher will join a strong faculty that centers instruction on the boys and engages boys through a variety of teaching styles, including project based learning.
This is a 10-month, full-time position. It is considered exempt under the FLSA, and it is eligible for full benefits.
Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate
passion for and experience teaching and engaging students; an ability both to write well and to teach others to write well; a background having studied world history; willingness to work cooperatively with strong faculty, within course teams, and along vertical course sequences; and a breadth of liberal arts training (e.g. in English, sociology, philosophy, religion, etc.) and capable of making cross-disciplinary connections.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree; prior teaching experience; and deep understanding of, support for, and desire to live out McCallie’s mission for the good of McCallie boys - including both the school’s Christian foundation and its commitment to the ideals of honor, truth, and duty.
Benefits
- Full benefits