High School Environmental Science Teacher
Nord Anglia Education
- Houston, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You'll help us develop and teach courses in Environmental Science to students in High School.
- You'll deliver lessons that develop students' knowledge and skills.
- You'll identify varying teaching methods that work best for all students.
- As a genuine team player, you'll work across the High School division to ensure students are learning and growing.
- Everything we do is connected to our vision to create a generation of resilient and creative global citizens who will change our world for the better
- Your role will impact the organisation by ensuring students understand how to apply environmental science concepts and maintain accurate records of students' progress in class and on examinations.
- A Village School teacher should be knowledgeable about not only his or her department and the curriculum developed there but about the school environment as a whole. They should be able to provide information about special programs offered as well as the philosophy of the school itself.
- A Village School teacher should be a proponent of the school and willing to talk about the school in a positive light to all constituents.
- A Village School teacher should work cooperatively and collectively with school Directors, Instructional Coach, Coordinators, Department Heads and other Teachers to ensure that instructional programs are coordinated and are administered uniformly and equitably in alignment with desired outcome.
- Sets high expectations for students; inspiring, motivating, and challenging students to achieve excellent progress and ambitious outcomes.
- Establishes positive and productive relationships with students, encouraging them to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study.
- Takes accountability for student achievement; setting goals that stretch and challenge, inspiring and motivating students of all abilities to be ambitious and to achieve the highest progress and attainment.
- Ensures the provision of opportunity within a physically, socially, culturally and emotionally safe, stimulating environment, rooted in mutual respect, to achieve the highest possible outcomes for all.
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge and use of informal and formal assessment to refine practice and promote the highest outcomes.
- Flexible and responsive to student needs by regularly using formative assessment strategies to check for understanding and make adjustments to instruction if necessary.
- Uses assessment knowledge and relevant data (both formative and summative) to identify effectiveness of learning, and remediation, helping diagnose and support diverse student needs whilst setting challenging, ambitious targets, providing regular feedback for ongoing and sustained improvement and adjusting subsequent lesson plans accordingly.
- Communicates appropriate assessment and achievement information/data to relevant members of the school and wider NAE learning community.
- Demonstrates understanding of how children and young adults develop and learn and is able to adapt teaching to personalize to the individual student (taking into account her/his physical, social, cultural and intellectual development, ability, native language and interests); embracing equality, diversity and inclusion in the classroom and wider school community, encouraging and striving for high performance for all.
- Has a well-developed, extensive knowledge of subject specialism and related pedagogy
- Keeps up to date and able to use her/his knowledge to influence the design and provision of an engaging and inspiring curriculum and lessons.
- Passionately imparts and shares her/his knowledge, leading discussions, and exploration to promote the value of scholarship and high performance of students.
- Plan sequences of lessons that introduce knowledge and skills to students in a coherent way so that they deepen understanding, make connections, and master increasingly complex skills.
- Demonstrates in-practice knowledge and understanding of how students learn and has student knowledge as her/his highest priority.
- Uses lessons effectively and promotes a love of learning and intellectual curiosity that helps students to reflect and take ownership for their own learning; and develop, consolidate, and extend their knowledge, not only in the classroom but through homework, assessments, coursework, Global Campus, social media and in an out-of-school context.
- Encourages higher order skills and thinking in the classroom such as exploration, critical enquiry and evaluation.
- Has high expectations of behavior, establishes leadership in the classroom and uses a variety of management strategies to ensure effective and productive classes for students
- Demonstrates the positive values, attitudes, and behaviors we expect.
- Encourages students to accept responsibility for their own behaviors, show initiative and understand how they can contribute positively to the lives of those living and working in the locality in which the school is situated, and to society more widely.
- Lays down clear frameworks and standards of conduct both within the classroom and wider school; exercises appropriate leadership, acting decisively when necessary.
- Bachelor's Degree
- At least three years of chemistry teaching experience, required.
- HS Chemistry experience teaching experience preferred; IB Environmental Science experience a plus.
- Training in effective Chemistry instructional methods
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for producing reports and presentations.
- Good cross-cultural, interpersonal and communication skills to interact with diverse nationalities and cultures.
- Excellent analytical skills - with the passion and drive to demonstrate and quantify success.
- Results orientated with the ability to consistently map efforts against identified KPIs.
- Excellent time management skills and flexibility in dealing with multi-functional tasks.
- You'd like to work in a purpose-led sector.