For experienced language teachers, who have had their own classrooms (for at least THREE-FIVE years, conducted parent-teacher conferences, implemented curricula academic-year long, etc.):

We have a position for Latin Teacher for the 2012-2013 academic-year.

Diversity- Need for a Teacher of Color to meet our Mission
Diversity is a cornerstone of our progressive school. It is integral and we seek to enhance that in hiring for this position, particularly focusing on under-represented candidates (including): women in math and highlighted with people of color. While we understand the importance and honor our majority colleagues, we want diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds in our faculty in order to reflect the diversity inherent in our multicultural city, and society. As a professional, we want authentic diversity from you: in your personal experience and professional expression. We will also ask for a Diversity Statement. To be clear, we do not discriminate on the basis of any dimensions of diversity, including race, so the most qualified candidate, and best fit, will be hired.

Philosophy

How We Teach
Learning therefore, is an active process in which the student is engaged in inquiry and exploration to construct meaning, building on what is already understood or experienced. Learning is an active process of using different experiences to create meaning and understanding. We know that being able to teach something to others is the best indicator of learning, with practicing by doing and discussing in a group the next best methods of learning.

The instructor will assign primary sources for reading and use raw data in addition to manipulative, interactive and physical materials. Students will be encouraged to think critically and inquisitively be being asked thoughtful, open-ended questions. They will be encouraged to engage each other in discussion, learning to listen and to question; they will analyze, predict and create rather than memorize, categorize and synthesize. Since a group will exhibit several different learning styles, students will construct their own knowledge instead of having someone do it for them. Students need the teacher as a guide; they will use all available resources to accomplish their curriculum.

In an experiential high school classroom, the teacher is not standing at the front of a row of desks talking at students; each member of the class takes responsibility for the learning of the group, and the teacher functions as a facilitator to keep the conversations structured and focused. Often meeting with students at a round table, the teacher can function as expert when necessary, but can also be a silent keeper of process, encouraging collaboration and ensuring that students attend to their group dynamics. (An important reference book for teachers is Teaching With Your Mouth Shut by Donald Finkel.)

How it’s done
The curriculum includes the student’s full complement of courses and activities. Everything the student does at school builds a sound foundation for college and for becoming an educated, thinking, and responsible person in the modern world. All of the programs at school encourage students to develop creativity, intellectual curiosity, independent thought, and ethical sensitivity and behavior.

Through the four-year curriculum, we want students to:
• develop powers of clear expression in writing and speech
• extend their knowledge of great literature of the past and present, together with the habit of critical reading
• acquire broad historical and cultural perspectives
• deepen their appreciation for and understanding of mathematics and the natural world while improving their ability to solve problems and to think logically and abstractly
• develop facility with and cultural understanding of at least one additional language
• refine the aesthetic sense through the study and practice of the performing arts
• recognize ethical and social challenges and respond to them through service to the community
• build character and improve physical fitness through participation in physical education and team sports
• become familiar with the uses of technology throughout the curriculum

The Latin program is designed to give students a facility in reading Latin and an understanding and appreciation of Roman civilization.

Throughout the four years of Latin offered at College Prep, emphasis is placed on the language, literature, history, and culture of the ancient Romans.

We have a chapter of the California Junior Classical League, and students attend the Bay Area Ludi Octobres in the fall and the state convention in the spring. All Latin students take the National Latin Exam in March.

The Cambridge Latin Course has been adopted for the first two years of Latin instruction. This reading approach offers the student the opportunity to study Latin inductively: meanings of words and syntax are first presented in model sentences or reading selections.

First Semester: Campbridge Latin Course, Unit 1 3rd edition
Second Semester: Cambridge Latin Course, Unit 2 4th Edition

The “Roman character” is the focus of study for advanced students; Vergil’s Aeneid for AP

Requirements:
Applicants must be able to teach all levels (I through IV AP). Candidates should have a combination of teaching
experience and graduate training in Latin.

Master’s degree preferred; Bachelor’s degree required; send materials to:

orpheus@strategenius.org

Orpheus is screening candidates and helping you to prepare for what you will be asked, i.e., the unstated, critical pieces of information about the position BEFORE you apply. Email is best but call if necessary AFTER sending in your resume: 510-685-0861.

Those working for us take teaching very seriously. SHOW US YOU READ THIS WHOLE AD! In your cover letter, speak to these areas or you will NOT be a competitive candidate: three or more years teaching, demonstrate your understanding and experience with Latin vocabulary and Roman history content, experience putting kids in cooperative groups, your use of technology in teaching, what curricula you have worked with/developed and training/professional development you have received. If you send a generalized cover letter not speaking to these, or no cover at all, you may not hear from us.

• Compensation: Compensation: $45,000-$94,000 depending on exp. and ed. (+small classes, full be
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