Position Overview
We are looking for a skilled and dedicated Social Studies teacher to join and lead our High School Social Studies department. BelovED’s Social Studies program builds rigorous academic skills and knowledge, while also engaging students in authentic, purposeful learning experiences that honor student voice and choice. We focus especially on building skills in critical literacy, primary source document analysis, writing, argumentation, research, and synthesis -- the skills that students will need to succeed in college, career, and as engaged citizens. We build academic communities in our classrooms characterized by a willingness to take intellectual risks and engage in exploration.
As a department, we aim to create a teaching team characterized by collaboration, trust, transparency, mutual respect, and joint commitment to academic excellence and student well-being. We provide our teachers with extensive coaching and support. We offer a variety of history courses at the general and AP level, as well as elective courses, and we involve teachers in curriculum development and growing our course selection.
If you want to work in a highly successful charter school that supports its teachers, serving a student mix that is among the most diverse in America while enjoying the cultural vibrancy of Jersey City, Hoboken and New York City (just 2 miles away), then apply today online at www.belovedccs.org/careers.
General Teacher Responsibilities
Values, Expectations, and Commitment Teachers must commit themselves to the School’s values and mission. Moreover, appreciating the example of excellent schools which succeed at helping all students achieve at a high level, teachers must hold high expectations for each student and commit themselves to helping every student achieve their full potential.
Student Learning Every teacher must accept ultimate responsibility for his or her students achieving learning progress that meets or exceeds the School's high standards and must actively develop solutions to problems, reaching out for peer and leader support, and taking advantage of other school resources, as necessary.
Teaching and Assessment Teachers may make use of school-provided curricular materials, or they may design their own, but they must plan and deliver vibrant and engaging lessons – each with a measurable goal – within the framework of the School’s carefully sequenced, standards-aligned education program.
Culture and Classroom Management Teachers must communicate, and also model for their students, behaviors which befit the high expectations culture and the caring school climate to which we are committed. They must apply School and classroom rules consistently and effectively; make use of preventive discipline; and effectively supervise students both in their classroom and elsewhere on School grounds.
Teamwork, Professional Relations, and Professional Development Teachers should see themselves as members of a team and should commit themselves to their own and to their peers’ on-going professional development. Teachers will be required to attend professional development sessions, to participate actively in planning meetings, and to become part of a professional learning community where they can lend assistance to, and gain assistance from, their grade-level peers.
Special Needs Students and English Language Learners Teachers must work collaboratively with the school’s special education and ELL staff to implement the school’s special education and ELL programs and to comply with all state and federal regulations.
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Requirements
Candidates must hold or plan to pursue a New Jersey Department of Education CE, CEAS or Standard certificate in Social Studies before they can teach it in NJ high schools.
Candidates for the Social Studies teacher role should have experience in inquiry-based teaching, teaching of reading and writing in the content area, and infusion of primary sources into their teaching. They should also be comfortable with creating their own lesson and unit plans (with support), as well as in promoting student-centered learning and using assessment to inform instruction.
Benefits
Teacher Supports
Teachers are part of a school-wide team that includes many different professionals and they receive career-long coaching and professional development support from their Academy Dean and Dean of Students, their Grade Level or Department Head, and our Coordinator of Special Education.
Teachers work closely with their grade level or departmental peers, with whom they engage within professional learning communities (PLCs) assisting one another to solve problems.
Additional teacher supports include:
As equal opportunity employers, BelovED and Empowerment Academy hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.