Middle School Science Teacher 2024-2025 - Intellectual Virtues Academy (Iva)

Job Summary

Job Summary

This position is for a full-time, single-subject credentialed teacher with special interest and competencies in teaching 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Science for deep understanding of content and opportunities for thinking. IVA utilizes a Project Based Inquiry Science curriculum that invites students into deep inquiry, collaboration, and hands-on learning.

The Intellectual Virtues Academy Middle School Teacher is passionate about their content and holds educational beliefs and values aligned with an intellectual virtues approach and possesses and models the practices of intellectual virtues themselves. IVA's mission, in its most basic form, is to help students experience meaningful growth in intellectual virtues in the context of academic teaching and learning.

The teacher understands and promotes the school's distinctive mission and vision and will faithfully implement and practice IVA's unique character-based educational model.

As a small school with a small and close knit educator team, IVA teachers work closely with their colleagues and other school staff to help shape a culture of thinking and a collaborative community of care. Each IVA teacher functions as a valuable thought partner working closely with the Principal to implement the mission and vision.

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Requirements / Qualifications

You should submit your application via this website by clicking the red "APPLY" button above. As you complete your application, please note that you will be asked to provide the following:

• Credential Copy (Upload copy of valid CA Teaching Credential or a screenshot from the CTC website)
• Letter of Introduction (Your letter should include a statement of your educational philosophy, including your understanding of the importance of traits like curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, or any of IVA's other "master virtues" (http://www.ivalongbeach.org/academics/master-virtues) to educational goals and practice)
• Other (Lesson Plan: your lesson plan should teach a relevant middle school science topic and provide an opportunity for students to practice one or more intellectual virtues that most relate to learning the content well.)
• Resume (Updated resume that highlights relevant experience)

Comments and Other Information

Applicants who are invited to an in-person interview will teach 20 minutes of their uploaded lesson plan, and will then discuss how the lesson demonstrates teaching for intellectual virtues. This means creating a lesson where students are given an opportunity to practice an intellectual virtue or virtues that most relate to learning the content well.

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