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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.
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Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $60,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year
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Work Location: In person