- Elementary Learning Support Teacher (Special Education)
Special Education Candidates - this is a contract position starting with the 2025-2026 academic year. Our starting annual salary for a first year teacher with a bachelor's degree is $51,823. Hamburg Area School District offers excellent medical benefits, dental benefits, a complimentary group-term life insurance policy, and a generous tuition reimbursement program. **
**Let Your Creativity Shine at Hamburg Area School District!**
At Hamburg Area School District, we are evolving to meet the current reality of the learners we are charged with serving. We acknowledge that the world has changed and that our kids require a very different kind of education than merely following the well-worn path of standardized testing.
- What Makes Hamburg Area School District Unique?**
We place our Compelling Purpose at the forefront of all we do. Our compelling purpose is to ensure that all children, without exception, find that place where their talents and passions come together. Doing so gives every student his or her best chance to make meaningful contributions to the world and to live a life of significance and meaning.
- How Does Our Compelling Purpose Support Learners?**
Our faculty are preparing students to thrive in an evolving and unpredictable job market by helping them discover for themselves: the things they are great at doing, the things they love to do, and how to connect with others on a human level. In short, we are preparing meaningful contributors for the 21st century.
- How Does Our Compelling Purpose Support Faculty?**
To prepare learners for a variety of life roles, we must educate the *whole* child. At Hamburg, we take pride in cultivating habits of mind by offering a comprehensive liberal arts education and encouraging our learners to further explore areas of interest. Faculty are encouraged to foster a **holistic learning environment** through support of unique and effective classroom practices like a**ctive learning spaces,** where seating configuration and styles may be customized to facilitate an optimum learning experience. Additionally, our faculty are encouraged to become designers of learning through **customized learning** practices. Whether that means a class trip to a water treatment facility to understand how rainwater is turned into drinking water, or a trip to the World War II battlefront using Virtual Reality technology, teachers are no longer confined to teaching within the constraints of four walls.
- Why Pursue a Career at Hamburg Area School District?**
Hamburg Area School District offers a unique, future-focused learning environment where teachers are encouraged to share their ideas and develop their own talents in support of its approach to learning. Our staff are our most valuable contributors. We seek educational leaders who bring positivity and enthusiasm to our culture, and who desire to be part of an educational system that engages learners meaningfully and prepares them to meet the challenges and opportunities of the future!
**Hamburg, Pennsylvania -- Check Us Out!**
Nestled in the rolling hills of Berks county, Hamburg is a rural community offering a small hometown look and feel with many conveniences typical of an urban setting. Hamburg's beautiful landscape offers access to nearby attractions such as hiking the Appalachian trail, biking the Schuylkill River Trail, or sightseeing at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. Situated just off Interstate 78, Hamburg's convenient location offers quick and easy access to the city life, given its central location to Philadelphia, King of Prussia, Reading, Allentown, Harrisburg and more!
