Upper School Computer Science Teacher

Athenian School • Danville, CA

2d • $82,000 - $150,000

About The Position

The Athenian School is an independent college preparatory boarding and day school that serves students in grades 6 - 12, from throughout the East Bay, California, the US and the world. Since our founding, we have been dedicated to educating students through experiential, collaborative and interdisciplinary learning. We foster critical thinking and value reasoned discourse and mutual respect. Please read through our site to learn more about our community. We look forward to meeting you as you consider Athenian!
The Athenian School seeks a full-time computer science teacher for the Upper School, teaching courses that span introductory programming through advanced work in data structures and algorithms and software engineering. Successful candidates will have demonstrated the desire to, and capabilities for, collaboratively generating curriculum and classroom practices that help students develop computational habits of mind and learn the specific skills necessary to express and apply them. Such candidates will also be drawn to meaningfully contribute to finding ways to express Athenian’s Pillars in our classrooms: Internationalism, Democracy, Environmentalism, Adventure, Leadership, Service. In addition to instruction, teachers at Athenian are expected to participate in community life through a variety of programs, events, and opportunities.

Requirements

• strong cultural competency and the capacity to work with students, families and colleagues who represent a broad range of identities and experiences
• experience teaching high computer science
• solid classroom management skills
• the ability to teach multiple levels of computer science in a project based setting
• hold a Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in computer science or a related field

Responsibilities

• teaching courses that span introductory programming through advanced work in data structures and algorithms and software engineering
• collaboratively generating curriculum and classroom practices that help students develop computational habits of mind and learn the specific skills necessary to express and apply them
• meaningfully contribute to finding ways to express Athenian’s Pillars in our classrooms: Internationalism, Democracy, Environmentalism, Adventure, Leadership, Service
• participate in community life through a variety of programs, events, and opportunities
• coach a sport for a supplemental stipend
• attend all-school functions relevant to their role
• participate in supporting the student experience with other school duties as requested by their direct supervisor

Benefits

• Community members enjoy meals on campus and use of athletics facilities, including a pool, gym and fitness center.
• faculty receive additional stipends for completed Masters and Doctoral degrees.
• All employees participate in school wide professional development, and have the opportunity to pursue a range of additional professional growth opportunities. These include, but are not limited to, funded participation in professional conferences and continuing education opportunities.
• Athenian provides needed training for CPR/AED certification.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time