Middle School Language Arts and Social Studies Teachers

Green Acres School does not discriminate on the basis of race; color; religion; sex; gender identity and expression; pregnancy; national, ethnic or ancestral origin; age; marital status; sexual orientation; disability; genetic information; or military service in the administration of its education, admissions, employment, and financial aid policies, and all school-administered programs. Green Acres School will reasonably accommodate an individual’s physical or mental disability as required by law. Green Acres School will also reasonably accommodate an individual’s religious obligations as required by law. Further information relating to reasonable accommodation is available from the Head’s Office.
Green Acres School is seeking a full-time and a part-time teacher of language arts and social studies for 5th and 6th grade students.
The 5th and 6th grade language arts program helps students to grow as readers, writers, and thinkers by engaging them in the reading and discussion of novels (like Tuck Everlasting and The Giver), poetry, and short stories, and by having them communicate both creatively and analytically in writing, in speaking, and through projects. The social studies program helps them to understand their own world through the lens of other cultures and societies. The curriculum focuses both on geography and on early societies, potentially including Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, India, China, and/or Africa, and then progresses into a study of Colonial America and the Revolution. Applicants should demonstrate experience in hands-on, project-based learning as well as more traditional forms of instruction. Students currently engage in projects where they develop a website about an accomplished person of color, design a dystopian society, build city-states, write excerpts of a novel in verse, engage in a constitutional convention, and stage a wax museum of Greek gods. Middle school classes cultivate skills through collaboration, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving. Our teachers are able to use best practices in classroom management while also building strong relationships with individual students. The expectation for professional collaboration is high in order to coordinate efforts as a teaching team, to serve students best, and to build integrated cross-curricular projects. The full-time position would also include serving as an advisor to a small group of students and as a liaison to the families of those students. The part-time position could be combined with the Middle School Learning Support position into a full-time role.
Requirements:
Green Acres seeks an experienced classroom teacher with a background in curricular and pedagogical innovation and teaching experience relevant to this position. The successful candidate will possess the following capacities: a sincere love of working with tweens, a passion for history and the English language, a love of teaching, curiosity and a growth mindset, and the ability to provide differentiated instruction. A bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree is preferred.
About Green Acres School:
Founded in 1934, Green Acres School is one of the country’s leading progressive schools. Serving approximately 160 students in grades Pre-K–8, the school occupies a 15-acre campus in North Bethesda, Maryland. Our school focuses on the development of the whole child through an academically challenging program that emphasizes interdisciplinary and experiential learning.
Green Acres School offers a collegial work environment, competitive salaries and benefits, and tuition remission for one’s own children at the school. Multiple buildings serve Lower School (Pre-K–4) and Middle School (5–8) students; we value the outdoors for ourselves and for our students.
To apply:
Send cover letter, resume, statement of educational philosophy, and Green Acres School Employment Application Form to [email protected].
All four items are necessary for an application to be considered.
Questions may be addressed to employment@greenacres.org.
Green Acres School does not discriminate based on race; color; religion; sex; gender identity and expression; pregnancy; national, ethnic or ancestral origin; age; marital status; sexual orientation; disability; genetic information; or military service in the administration of its education, admissions, employment, and financial aid policies, and all school-administered programs. Green Acres School will reasonably accommodate an individual’s physical or mental disability as required by law. Green Acres School will also reasonably accommodate an individual’s religious obligations as required by law. Further information relating to reasonable accommodation is available from the Head’s Office.

Location: 11701 Danville Drive North Bethesda,MD 20852, North Bethesda, MD 20852

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time