Middle & High School STEM Teacher
10-12 month full-time position
About the job
The Sycamore School is seeking a full-time STEM Teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. Applicants would be responsible for building middle and high school science curricula and integrating it with other subjects. Applicants must be comfortable with providing inquiry-based, self-paced, experiential learning. Our teachers work collaboratively and take students on weekly field studies. Our STEM staff also have the opportunity to teach a math class and/or an elective in addition to their core subject area.
We are looking for teachers who enjoy and are comfortable with:
- Creating and integrating curriculum
- Providing students choices of how they access the curriculum and demonstrate mastery (UDL)
- Inquiry-based, experiential learning
- Problem-based learning
- Differentiating instruction
- Integrating reading and writing into curricula
- Guiding self-paced learning
- Incorporating student interests into the curriculum
- Listening and responding to feedback
- Open to integrating mindfulness and other social-emotional activities into the curriculum
- Team teaching
- Wearing many hats
Qualifications and Skills
Skills Needed:
- Expertise in science curricula, especially chemistry and physics
- Expertise in classroom management
- Ability to mentor as a positive role model
- Ability to create classroom structures and procedures
- Tech savvy including proficiency using Google Classroom
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Detail oriented and organized
- Ability to handle tasks promptly and efficiently
- Friendly, reliable, accountable and trustworthy
- Independent worker and team player
- Flexible and calm under pressure
- Quick learner with a willingness to learn more and do more
- Ethical, honest and has high integrity
- Respects confidentiality
- Knowledge of traits of twice-exceptional learners
- Understands learning differences and emotional disabilities (e.g., anxiety, ADHD)
- Accepting and respectful of differences
Education and other qualifications:
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required, as well as a higher level of science background
- Solid subject matter knowledge in a majority of these areas: Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.
- Teaching credentials are preferred but are not mandatory.
- Minimum of five years of teaching experience
- Experience with students with learning differences and ADHD is preferred, as is mentoring experience.
