Career Center

Date Posted: January 2022

Starting Date: April 2022

Reporting to: Lower School Director

Job Summary

BB&N is seeking a full-time Grade 6 Homeroom and Language Arts Teacher for a leave position from April through the beginning of June. The BB&N Lower School consists of Beginners through Grade 6.

Responsibilities include managing a homeroom as well as teaching three sections of English Language Arts. The core of the English Language Arts program follows a curriculum designed using an analytical approach to literature. In addition, this teacher collaborates with the Social Studies teacher for cross-curricular discussions and projects on human rights, identity, and race. There is also collaboration between the Sixth Grade and Middle School teams to plan programs which transition sixth graders to the Middle School. 

Responsibilities also include creating and maintaining a positive classroom climate, involvement in curriculum development, evaluating each student’s performance and growth, planning and presenting displays designed to exhibit students’ work for the school community, working closely with other teachers in developing single discipline and interdisciplinary learning experiences, preparing progress reports and conference with families throughout the year, and performing scheduled campus duties.

Some additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to, leading/co-leading affinity groups, attendance at weekly faculty meetings, ordering of materials, tools, instructional aids, and any other duties that may be assigned by Administration.

In addition, teachers are expected to be committed to the following practices:

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and the impact it has on the curriculum and the community.  
• Social-emotional learning
• Using the visual arts to expand on the thoughts and ideas of the students.
• Collaboration between adults in our community that evolves and advances practice.
• Documentation and assessment of learning in ways that make the learning visible.
• Understanding of Inquiry based-interdisciplinary research projects and the development of authentic and meaningful experiences that results in exemplary work (a student’s best work) and lifelong learning.
• Organization and use of materials within different disciplines in skilled and inventive ways to deepen learning.
• Installation of organized and aesthetically pleasing learning environments.