26-27 Upper School Life Science SPED Teacher

The Quad Preparatory School • New York, NY

2d • $65,000 - $89,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Quad Preparatory School is seeking a full-time sixth-grade life science teacher for the 2026-2027 school year. This role involves providing academic instruction and social-emotional support to students in collaboration with clinicians. The classrooms have fewer than ten students, and teachers also conduct one-to-one instructional time weekly. The students exhibit a wide range of learning abilities. Teachers will receive mentorship, coaching, and support from clinicians and academic administrators. This position offers significant professional development opportunities in working with twice-exceptional youth, mentored by veteran special education teachers, academic administrators, and clinicians.

Requirements

• Love for working with middle school students
• Desire and ability to work with students with special needs
• Knowledge, understanding, and strong interest in life science
• Ability to connect with middle school students
• Lesson planning and the ability to provide engaging and differentiated instruction
• Effective oral and written communication
• A solid understanding of adolescent academic, social, and emotional development
• Attention to detail
• Maintaining confidentiality and privacy
• Ethical conduct
• Time management and the ability to multitask
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Patience and flexibility
• Bachelor’s degree in science, science education, elementary education, special education, or a related field.
• Minimum of 1 year paid teaching experience with upper elementary or middle school students.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as an upper elementary or middle school science or special education teacher.
• Master’s degree in science education, special education, elementary education, science, or a related field.
• Special education training, including training in the areas of gifted education and twice-exceptional youth.
• Secondary Science, Elementary Education, and/or Special Education teaching credential.
• Experience teaching twice-exceptional youth.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement high-quality, engaging life science lessons that are differentiated to meet the learning needs of the students.
• Regularly assess the students and the curriculum, adapting content and instruction as appropriate; communicating assessment results to parents.
• Subscribe to and implement the school’s philosophy of progressive and personalized education for twice-exceptional children.
• Collaborate with K-12 science teachers to ensure a vertically aligned science program.
• Support students during co-curricular programming that occurs during the school day.
• Create and maintain an orderly and aesthetic learning environment that accounts for students’ social, emotional, and executive functioning needs.
• Maintain accurate records using both our school’s learning management system as well as carefully managed portfolios of student work to illustrate and record progress and achievement.
• Empower students to take charge of their learning by providing all necessary scaffolding, modeling, materials, and resources, and consistently maintaining a high level of expectation for student success.
• Collaborate with other academic staff and psychosocial staff members to plan, integrate, and facilitate cross-curricular, inquiry-based projects.
• Communicate with parents and guardians to provide feedback on pupils’ academic and social-emotional progress through parent-teacher conferences, written reports, phone calls, and emails.
• Follow the professional code and policies of the school and conduct oneself in a way that promotes the mission of the school.
• Utilize technology: Veracross student management system, Google Classroom, and Google Suite, in particular Google Calendar, Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets.
• Attend all faculty and staff meetings, professional development sessions, and required special events (e.g., Curriculum Night, open houses, parent-teacher conferences).
• Perform other duties as assigned, including, but not limited to, teaching electives, serving as an academic advisor, and/or leading a student club (during the school day).

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision coverage
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Pre-tax transit
• Dependent care (DC FSA) accounts
• 401K match
• Student loan repayment contributions (after one year of employment)
• Professional development opportunities
• First Year Support Program for all new facility and staff
• Leadership Development Institute for those wishing to gain supervisory experience
• Full tuition waiver for candidates wishing to participate in our annual Certificate Program in Meeting the Needs of Twice-Exceptional Students.
• Staff wellness groups
• Social events

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level