High School Science Teacher

Department: Science

Status: Full-Time 1.0 FTE

Reports To: Principal

Travel Requirements: None anticipated

Location: Northwest Yeshiva High School Campus/in-person

Pay Range: $60,000-$70,000

Description of Benefits: This is a full-time position for the 2024-2025 school year. Compensation includes medical and vision benefits, voluntary dental, and FSA plans, 403b contributions and generous paid time off (including statutory holidays and school breaks).

About the Company

Northwest Yeshiva High School (NYHS) is a coeducational, accredited Jewish High School, educating teens from a wide geographic area in the Seattle area and a variety of Jewish backgrounds. Located on Mercer Island, NYHS empowers students to become curious, resilient, and virtuous citizens of the world by developing into sophisticated thinkers who take ownership of their ideas with passion and intellectual honesty. This mission comes alive in our neighborhood setting on Mercer Island where we serve grades 9-12 in a vibrant, dual curriculum. Our diverse faculty bring varied life experience and passion to their content areas and instruction. Our guiding principles are intellectual curiosity, student agency, and a commitment to the common good. We are a small school with 42 students currently enrolled; this contributes to our family-like atmosphere where all students are known and seen.

We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

About the Position

Northwest Yeshiva High School is seeking a full-time High School Science teacher for the 2024-2025 school year. We offer a wide range of life and physical science courses to prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers. The role of the Science Teacher is to foster a love for science, implement science and engineering practices, and make learning accessible for all students. This position will include teaching a 10th grade Chemistry course, an upper-level science course, and a semester-long Health course or Elective. The High School Science teacher should be a content area expert who inspires in students a love of science; one who brings learning to life with a focus on helping students understand the relevance of their learning to their lives; and one who is able to differentiate instruction to all students regardless of previous background knowledge or learning differences. The candidate would have freedom to design this upper-level science course. NYHS encourages its teachers to offer courses in a field they are passionate about and / or have experience within. We invite candidates to propose engaging and cross-disciplinary courses that would supplement our existing program. Class sizes are small and range from 7-19 students. The Science Teacher reports to the Principal, but with the final jurisdiction of the Head of School.

Responsibilities

• Teach 2 year long science courses and a semester-long health course or elective
• Collaborate with science faculty to develop science standards and curricula for the department
• Provide consistent and frequent communication, verbally and in writing, with students and parents about the progress of each student. This includes Report Cards, phone calls, parent conferences, Schoology, email blasts, etc.
• Provide skillful classroom management practices (routines and procedures) to ensure a safe, orderly, positive, enjoyable, and productive learning environment.
• Use formative and summative assessment and documents student progress and achievement; assess and analyze student strengths and needs; design and implement appropriate instruction to facilitate learning and growth.
• Work collaboratively in situations that may be time sensitive with a variety of individuals including students, parents, faculty and staff.
• Uphold the philosophy, principles, policies, and procedures and represents NYHS positively in the school community and the wider community.

Requirements

Education & Experience

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in science, secondary education, or a related discipline
• Experience in education or science education, preferably at the secondary level
• Teaching certification preferred

Personal & Professional Attributes

• A passion for teaching science and creating an engaging learning environment
• Desire, interest, and enthusiasm for working with high school-aged students
• A willingness to incorporate social-emotional learning (social awareness, relationship skills, self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making) and project-based learning into the subject matter
• Strong organizational and communication abilities
• Strong judgment & decision making skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient at working in a Google Drive environment and confident in learning new technology
• Ability to work and communicate well with students, families, faculty, and staff within the community

Desired Additional Skills, Experience & Credentials

• Knowledge of and/or experience teaching Health

Additional information

To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume and three references to .

Northwest Yeshiva High School is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at .

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Grade school specialties:

• 10th grade
• 11th grade
• 12th grade
• 9th grade
• Science

Physical setting:

• Private school
• Religious school

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to Relocate:

• Mercer Island, WA 98040: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person