Cardinal Newman School of Columbia, South Carolina is accepting applications for a dependable high school chemistry teacher for the 2023-2024 academic year.  Courses levels will include college preparatory, honors, and potentially AP chemistry.  The chemistry teacher’s responsibilities include instruction of Chemistry following the diocesan standards using three-dimensional instructional strategies, developing rapport, and maintaining good relationships with students and parents.  Outstanding candidates are able to apply scientific principles to real-life situations and can successfully teach students with different interests and aptitudes.  New teacher orientation begins on August 2^nd. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Understanding the curriculum and developing long range plans, lesson plans, and teaching methods that will help students cover the required content.
• Preparing and delivering lessons that are inquiry-based and differentiated.
• Educating students on lab safety and ensuring all experiments are carried out responsibly.
• Incorporate weekly laboratory experiments relevant to the current lessons being taught in class.
• Preparing appropriate and varied assessments that assess students both formatively and summatively.
• Ensuring appropriate resources and consultation times are available to students.
• Maintain strict records of student attendance, participation, homework, lab work and test results.
• Attending staff and parent meetings, conferences, workshops, and other continuing education programs.
• Handling various administration functions, which include updating student records, verifying student accommodations are implemented, and keeping track of lab supplies, tools, and equipment.
• Ensuring a safe, healthy classroom environment where learning can take place.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in chemistry or a related discipline, although a master’s or above is preferred.
• Teaching certification is preferred.
• Knowledge of teaching styles is recommended.
• Excellent interpersonal, as well as written and verbal communication skills.
• Sound knowledge of health and safety regulations.
• Ability to inspire and motivate students.
• Strong multitasking skills.

About Cardinal Newman School

About the Employer Mission: Tracing its roots to Ursuline academy, founded in 1858, Cardinal Newman School opened on the parish grounds of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Columbia as both Ursuline and Catholic High schools respectively until moving to Forest Drive in 1961, where it remained until December 2015. In January 2016, Cardinal Newman opened a state-of-the-art, 76-acre campus, 16 acres added in 2019, at 2945 Alpine Road for students in seventh through twelfth grades. Cardinal Newman School serves families seeking a Catholic Middle and High School education in the Columbia area from diverse socio economic and cultural backgrounds. We challenge our students to embrace truth, pursue academic excellence, act with integrity, lead courageously, work for justice, and engage in generous service. We are a community where every student is known, the dignity of all is appreciated, and apparent and potential gifts are developed in mind, body, and spirit.

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