Health Teacher (Middle School Grades 5-8) job in Swampscott, Massachusetts
Job Description includes, but is not limited to:
Swampscott Middle School is looking for a health teacher that will take an active role in administering a curriculum that supports the development of health literacy and health-enhancing behaviors among students and our school community. Health literacy reflects on a student's ability to access, understand, appraise, apply, and advocate for health information and services in order to maintain orenhance one's own health and the health of others.
The health teacher will be willing to connect with other school services to enhance curriculum, instruction and learning.
Knowledge in the area of skills-based health education and curriculum design is preferred. Skills-based curriculum would includeexploring the seven skills listed in the National Health Education Standards (accessing information, analysing influences, interpersonalcommunication, decision-making, goal-setting, self-management and advocacy) as well as the health literacy skills listed above.
Responsibilities:
- Plan engaging lessons with clear and measurable objectives that are relevant to the appropriate curriculum and the students in the class.
- Manage class operation by enforcing high academic and behavioral expectations, implementing routines, anticipating potential problems and taking appropriate preventative measures, and treating all students with respect.
- Create a positive class environment by building a relationship with each student, encouraging students to build relationships with one another, treating all students fairly, promoting students' self-discipline and responsibility for learning, and not tolerating dangerous or destructive behaviors.
- Deliver instruction effectively by establishing high expectations for all students, presenting new material explicitly and in a
developmentally appropriate manner, connecting new learning to students' prior knowledge, helping students understand the relevance of what they are learning, differentiating based on students' needs, and using a variety of pedagogic approaches.
- Assess student understanding of learning objectives with student self-assessments, frequent formative measures, and periodic summative measures.
- Collaborate with other professionals to analyze student work, draw conclusions, develop interventions and extensions, and implement new teaching strategies based on assessment data.
- Understand the Individual Education Programs and 504 Accommodation Plans of students in the class
-Communicate the students' academic, social, and behavioral progress to their parents or guardians in a respectful and responsive manner.