Description

General Description: MCA seeks experienced teachers for the 26-27 school year. Successful candidates are those called to God’s kingdom work, looking to fulfill their God-given purpose and desiring to work in a fast-paced environment with a small community of dedicated, hard-working, loving, and skilled educators. Candidates should demonstrate Christ-like character, be passionate about and feel called to Christ-centered education, and be willing to lovingly carry out teaching duties. 

Evaluation: Teacher performance will be evaluated by administration and instructional leadership through a series of formal and informal observations in accordance with evaluation standards, as communicated to all faculty in the Manhattan Christian Academy Faculty Handbook.

Responsible to: Principal, Assistant Principal, and PLC Leader     Supervises: Students, student teachers, volunteers, aides

Salary Range: Full-time starts at 40K + [Step increases based on degree and experience]

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of your life.
• Holds a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Current ACSI Teaching Certificate in Elementary or Secondary Education preferred.
• Two or more years of classroom teaching experience preferred.
• Active member of an evangelical Christian Church.
• Demonstrates a reasonable level of computer literacy.
• Possesses knowledge of technological devices i.e. interactive whiteboards, document cameras, preferred.
• Willingness to pursue higher education and continue progress in career development.
• Demonstrates the ability to teach students well at the grade level for which he/she is hired.
• Must believe and actively support MCA’s statement of faith and sign and live by MCA’s lifestyle statement (attached) as a condition for employment and continued employment in this ministry.
• Must pass a criminal background check.

Responsibilities:

1. Demonstrate a love for God
   1. Knowledge of the Bible and its application to subject area(s).
   2. Practice daily devotions of prayer, reading and study of God’s word and meditation.
   3. Modeling of the Christian walk in attitude, speech and acts inside and outside of school.
   4. Submission to authority out of obedience to Christ.
2. Demonstrate a love for students
   1. Treat each child as uniquely gifted by God.
   2. Be a godly role model and promote a strong spiritual foundation for students.
   3. Establish a climate of love and respect for one another.
   4. Discipline students fairly and out of love.
   5. Provide an atmosphere where students will support and learn from each other.
   6. Create a classroom environment that is conducive to student learning.
3. Demonstrate professional competence and instruction
   1. Demonstrate knowledge of content pedagogy and students in planning evidenced through coherent instruction.
   2. Engage all students in learning.
   3. Incorporate biblical integration in lessons and unit plans.
   4. Select and use curricular materials that will promote academic growth.
   5. Use “differentiated” teaching methods/techniques to effectively administer to the needs of all the students in the classroom.
   6. Adequately assess student learning and use student data to drive instruction.
   7. Select instructional goals and create unit and lesson plan that adequately addresses selected goals.
4. Relationship to Faculty/Staff/ Parents
   1. Communicate regularly to parents about their child’s progress and needs.
   2. Develop and maintain a rapport with parents and staff.
   3. Cooperates with the board and administration in implementing all policies, procedures, and directives governing the operation of the school.
   4. Meet with staff members to listen, learn, worship, and exchange ideas for helping students meet the goals of the school.
5. Professional Growth
   1. Utilizes educational opportunities and evaluation process for professional growth.
   2. Seeks counsel of the administration, colleagues and parents, and is teachable.
   3. Pursue further learning of subject area(s) while seeking the best pedagogy of the school’s mission.
   4. Seek and accept constructive evaluation of job performance.
6. Non-Instructional Responsibilities
   1. Maintains regular and accurate attendance and grade records to meet the demand for a comprehensive knowledge of each student’s progress.
   2. Attends and participates in scheduled devotional, committee, faculty, and PLC meetings.
   3. Maintains a clean, attractive and well-ordered classroom.
   4. Demonstrates knowledge of procedures for dealing with emergencies.
   5. Attend special school events as deemed required by the school.
   6. Participate actively, celebrate and promote Christian education in the community.
   7. Demonstrate flexibility.