High School Science Teacher

Stride, Inc. • Tempe, AZ

1d • Remote

About The Position

General Education High, powered by K12, offers virtual high school programs (grades 9-12) including core, comprehensive, credit recovery, honors, Advanced Placement courses, and a variety of electives. The role involves building relationships with families, students, and learning coaches to ensure student progress. K12, a Stride Company, provides online, high-quality, personalized education. This position is for the Stride K12 partner school, Arizona Virtual Academy (AZVA), which aims to deliver an individualized and engaging educational experience through school and community/family partnerships, a rigorous curriculum, and a data-driven, student-centered instructional model. Student success is measured by assessment data, satisfaction, and institutional growth. The High School Science teacher is a highly qualified, state-certified educator responsible for delivering specific online course content. Teachers provide instruction, support, and guidance, manage the learning process, and cater to individual student needs. They monitor progress via Stride K12’s learning management system and collaborate with students and parents/learning coaches to achieve learning goals. While typically working from home, teachers must travel occasionally for school functions like state testing or as required by the school. This is a full-time position requiring independent work, typically 40+ hours per week, and maintaining a professional home office without distractions during work hours (e.g., 9-5 or 8-4).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Active state teaching license
• Ability to clear required background check
• Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions
• Receptive to receiving coaching regularly with administrators and teacher trainers
• Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint
• Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies and teaching platforms
• Ability to maintain teacher certification/professional development hours and fluency in K12 systems, programs and curriculum
• 0-1 year of related professional experience
• Arizona fingerprinting clearance card OR ability to obtain one

Nice To Haves

• Arizona Earth Science Certification preferred
• Experience working with proposed age group
• Experience supporting adults and children in the use of technology
• Experience teaching in an online (virtual) and/or in a brick-and-mortar environment
• Experience with online learning platforms

Responsibilities

• Provides rich and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences for students
• Commitment to personalizing learning for all students
• Demonstrates a belief in all students’ ability to succeed and meet high expectations
• Differentiates instruction based on student level of mastery
• Augments course content according to prescribed policies and procedures using appropriate asynchronous and synchronous tools under guidance from principal and coach
• Maintains grade book ensuring student academic integrity, makes student placement and promotion decisions, and alerts administrators to concerns about student performance and progress
• Prepares students for high stakes standardized tests
• Understands that a primary responsibility is to establish and maintain positive rapport with families and regularly communicates with and responds to students and learning coaches/parents in a timely manner
• Supports learning coaches/parents with student curricular and instructional issues, as well as basic troubleshooting in a virtual classroom environment that is in line with academy policies and procedures
• Travels as required (on average once per month and/or approximately 20% of the time) for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and as required by school

Benefits

• Eligible employees may receive a bonus
• Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees