Position: Social Studies Teacher: Watertown High School

Department: Social Studies

Location: Watertown High School
Affiliation:  Watertown Educators Association Unit A

Salary Range: As determined by the Unit A Salary Schedule

Reports to: Secondary Social Studies Coordinator & Principal

Start Date: School Year 2024-2025

*This position is eligible for City benefits.  

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Summary: 

Watertown High School seeks a highly qualified educator for a permanent 1.0 FTE Social Studies position (grades 9-12). 

Responsibilities:

• Effectively instruct high school students at a suburban secondary school at multiple academic levels.
• Create, adapt, and/or use curricula that reflect the diverse educational, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of the students.
• Design clear and robust lessons using UbD methodology that incorporate challenging, clear, and standards-aligned learning objectives. 
• Design and implement effective student-centered and student-participatory lessons.
• Collaborate and co-teach as needed to serve a wide variety of student learning needs and styles.
• Adapt lessons and materials as required for individual students’ documented and undocumented needs.
• Observe and evaluate students’ performance using formative and summative assessments.
• Create a positive, collaborative educational climate in the classroom.
• Effectively manage student behavior in the classroom by invoking appropriate classroom management techniques.
• Participate in contractually obligated after-school conferences and activities.
• Initiate and participate in culturally appropriate two-way communication with families about students’ performance throughout the school year. 
• Promptly communicate student concerns to the curriculum coordinator, guidance department, support staff, and/or building administration, as appropriate.
• Attend and collaborate with colleagues in faculty meetings, department meetings, IEP meetings, etc as required of all faculty. 
• Be available for a one-week AP training institute in July. 

Qualifications - Required

• Appropriate Massachusetts certification in Social Studies/History and SEI Endorsement
• Passionate about working with students and providing the individual interventions needed for success.
• Collaboration-oriented personal and teaching philosophy.
• Training and familiarity with lesson and materials differentiation.
• Strong working knowledge or teaching experience with co-teaching models in a General Education setting.
• Knowledge of the Massachusetts History and Social Science frameworks and Social Studies Literacy skills.
• Experience with using and/or creating grading rubrics and knowledge of standards-based grading practices.

Qualifications - Preferred

• Experience with Advanced Placement History at the high school level and/or extensive US History training at the collegiate level.

• Knowledge and experience teaching world history, world history, and/or other social sciences at multiple levels.

• Knowledge of a second language; Spanish or Portuguese preferred

Equal Opportunity Employer

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