Assoc. Professor - History teaches courses in the discipline area of history. Develops and designs curriculum plans to foster student learning, stimulate class discussions, and ensures student engagement. Being an Assoc. Professor - History provides tutoring and academic counseling to students, maintains classes related records, and assesses student coursework. Collaborates and supports colleagues regarding research interests and co-curricular activities. Additionally, Assoc. Professor - History typically reports to a department head. Requires a PhD or terminal degree appropriate to the field. Has considerable experience and is qualified to teach at undergraduate and graduate levels and conducts research and case studies in field of interest and may publish findings in trade journals or textbooks. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
Immediate opening for an experienced History general ed teacher who is passionate about project-based learning to join our innovative school
Cajal Academy is looking for a passionate and experienced History and Civics teacher to develop and deliver standards-aligned, project-based learning curriculum to bright and gifted students from elementary through advanced high school levels.
This is a truly unique opportunity to join an innovative and tight-knit team of passionate educators and expert clinicians who are modernizing education through new teaching and social-emotional approaches that have proven transformative for kids. You will work closely with educators across different academic subjects to develop highly-integrated, multi-disciplinary project-based learning curriculum, within a startup environment that is committed to both academic excellence and personal growth for complex learners who are typically hard to reach in other school environments.
About Our School
Cajal Academy is a small, innovative non-profit school dedicated to developing and disseminating new educational approaches that match to the science of child development. We empower kids to discover their gifts through small, discussion-based classes of just 1-6 kids, project-based learning, close teacher-student relationships and new differentiation and social-emotional approaches that help students understand and overcome the challenges that hold them back. For our teachers, this is an opportunity to learn effective new strategies to further your craft, within an extremely close-knit and supportive team that is passionate about moving education forward, and to collaborate with teachers and expert licensed therapists across disciplines to create bespoke, standards-aligned project-based learning curriculum that challenge our kids to solve real world problems.
All our students are selected for their very high analytical reasoning and/or creative thinking skills, which are paired with a range of special education needs. These are supported through a multi-disciplinary approach provided by expert licensed therapists including an internationally recognized neuropsychologist, using ground-breaking approaches developed by our team that reduce their disabilities (not just accommodate). This includes techniques that accelerate learning by getting kids up and moving instead of pressuring them to sit still and listen. We are the only school in Connecticut or Westchester, NY offering academic programs and therapies tailored to the needs of this cohort of kids, and have brought transformative results for many of them that allegedly "can't be done."
Cajal Academy was granted Candidacy status by NEASC in June, 2023 and is working towards full accreditation. Cajal Academy is growing towards a K-12 school of 50 students; enrollment is currently just 11 kids, spanning grades 2 through 12. Cajal Academy is not a behavior management program and does not admit students who display physical aggression toward others. Our social-emotional curriculum fosters a focus on fostering community, openness about one’s challenges and celebrating peers’ growth and development.
Responsibilities of the Position
Teachers at Cajal Academy have much greater opportunity, tools and support to meet students where they are than is the case in traditional school environments. Our teachers are involved in all aspects of our students’ development, from screening admissions candidates to multi-disciplinary team meetings with our clinical team to develop targeted differentiation strategies for a given child.
Our History and Social Studies teachers collaborate with their colleagues from other academic disciplines to develop project-based learning units that require students to master standards-aligned curriculum in order to solve real-world problems. These projects are selected and designed by our academic teachers working as a team, and then each teacher develops their own lesson plans implementing these units through standards-based instruction to students in ability- and age-based groupings.
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Potential advancement opportunities include opportunities to become our Director of Curriculum and/or positions in school administration.
Requirements
We are looking for an experienced History and Civics teacher who has a depth of knowledge within these disciplines. Many of our students have reading, physio or other challenges interfering with their ability to access reading or to express themselves in writing, despite their very high intellectual abilities. On-the-job training will be provided in our unique pedagogical approaches, with daily access to our therapeutic staff to further refine your understanding and support your work. We do not use traditional special education approaches and thus a special education background is not required.
The successful candidate will have a strong grasp of a range of instructional strategies to teach History, although candidates from non-traditional backgrounds with demonstrated high analytical reasoning skills and written expression will also be considered. The ideal candidate will also have experience developing standards-aligned curriculum and lesson plans and utilizing a range of instructional approaches, and will be excited to do so through multi-disciplinary project-based learning. This must include knowledge and understanding of Connecticut's high school History and Civics standards. The ideal candidate will also collaborate with humanities teachers, gaining knowledge of developmental strategies appropriate to a vertically-integrated Social Studies and History curriculum across our mixed age community of kids.
All Cajal Academy team members must be flexible thinkers with very high analytical and organizational skills and strong attention to detail. All staff must be passionate about empowering bright and gifted kids who must work to overcome challenges including learning disabilities, social cognition challenges, self-regulation, motor coordination disorders and chronic medical conditions. All staff must be committed to a trauma-informed approach to education and to classroom management, and to collaborating with staff from other academic and therapeutic disciplines.
A master’s degree or higher level of education in a relevant field is required; teacher certification and/or credentials for special education are not required. Regardless of background, (s)he must be able to flexibly adapt educational strategies and/or develop new ones to respond to the needs of this cohort or of a particular child. Demonstrated, strong written expression skills are essential.
The successful candidate must also be a team player comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a fluid environment.
Schedule of Responsibilities
Cajal Academy's students are in session Monday-Friday, 9-3. All teaching staff are on site 8:30-4:30 each day, providing time before and after school to collaborate with one another and our clinical team on curriculum development and lesson planning, and to further refine understandings and approaches for reaching individual kids.
Cajal Academy has a traditional, ten-month academic school year (September to June), and a 4- week summer session in July that is required for all academic teachers. This half-day program provides academic and therapeutic continuity for our students, additional training opportunities for staff and improves the program's accessibility to the community.
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