Summer 2024 High School Credit Recovery Teacher

Overview

High School teachers will develop lessons and provide high-quality instruction that meet the needs of High School students who need to recover credits. Teacher applicants must be Massachusetts licensed, highly qualified in terms of subject matter knowledge, and familiarity with the best practices in instruction for all students, the state Common Core curriculum frameworks, grade level benchmarks, a variety of assessment strategies and techniques and must exhibit effective interpersonal skills. Teachers must be able to work well and collaborate with their peers to develop effective project-based lessons and instructional content aligned to areas of academic need (based off of district and school achievement data), and established learning goals.

 

Focus of the Program

This program will be open to current High School students as well as out of district High School students needing to recover credits. The program will attempt to have a teacher student ratio of 1:15. This is contingent on enrollment numbers. World Language and Physical Education may not run if enrollment numbers are low.

 

Terms of Employment

The program will be held Monday, July 1 through Friday, July 26, 2024. Program times for students are 7:30 am - 12:30 pm in addition to a 1 hour prep per day, for a total of (18 days). Teachers will be expected to attend a minimum of one out-of-school time meeting in late June/early July for orientation and planning purposes.

 

Salary:

per WEA Contract for hours worked (up to 110 hours)

 

Contact

To apply, please submit a letter of interest by April 1, 2024 to Jason Ciccariello jasonciccariello@walthampublicschools.org and Arianna Drane ariannadrane@walthampublicschools.org