Upper Division English Teacher

Berkeley • Tampa, FL

5h

About The Position

Berkeley Preparatory School seeks an energetic, innovative, and student-centered candidate for a full-time instructional position in our Upper Division English Program. The successful candidate will have exceptional communication and pedagogical skills focused on writing for an array of purposes and audiences. They will inspire passion, creativity, and critical thought to nurture students as writers, readers, and citizens. Candidates should have experience in seminar-or discussion-based instruction where student inquiry drives discourse through complex essential questions, backward design, and reflective, creative, analytical, and persuasive writing instruction and assignments, as well as experiential learning activities. This well-read and thoughtful teacher will present to students to a diverse selection of voices and texts, both canonical and contemporary, while teaching deep, close reading and encouraging intellectual risk-taking. They will embrace a growth mindset while working in teaching teams. They will also be willing to teach any classes in the English department curriculum, from college-prep English 9 and 10 to AP English Language and AP English Literature, as well as senior electives, to reach and impact students with a range of passions and abilities. A collaborative nature, sense of humor, diverse cultural competence, and the compassion to know and nurture young adolescents are required, as is a desire to honor and further develop school culture by participating in extracurricular activities. Candidates must show a strong willingness to receive feedback regularly, grow professionally, significantly contribute to the life of the school, and will be eager to work in a culturally and ethnically diverse environment.

Requirements

• Exceptional communication and pedagogical skills focused on writing for an array of purposes and audiences
• Experience in seminar-or discussion-based instruction where student inquiry drives discourse through complex essential questions, backward design, and reflective, creative, analytical, and persuasive writing instruction and assignments, as well as experiential learning activities
• Collaborative nature
• Sense of humor
• Diverse cultural competence
• Compassion to know and nurture young adolescents
• Desire to honor and further develop school culture by participating in extracurricular activities
• Strong willingness to receive feedback regularly
• Grow professionally
• Significantly contribute to the life of the school
• Eager to work in a culturally and ethnically diverse environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed