Middle School Language Arts Teacher

St. Gabriel Classical Academy

Mission:

To assist parents in their sacred duty as the primary educators of their children.

We do this by providing a challenging and integrated Catholic liberal arts education; focused on Truth, Goodness, and Beauty imbued with the rich traditions of the Catholic faith. Our goal is not only academic excellence but to form children as joyful and virtuous disciples of Christ.

Qualifications
Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Literature, Education, Liberal Arts, or related field.
• Practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage a classroom with both charity and firmness.
• Commitment to the intellectual, spiritual, and moral formation of students.

Preferred

• Teaching certification or licensure.
• Experience teaching middle school literature and writing.
• Experience in classical or Catholic liberal arts education.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Uphold and support the mission, philosophy, and teachings of the Catholic Church and the school.
• Integrate Catholic worldview and virtue formation throughout literature and writing instruction.
• Foster a classroom culture rooted in charity, reverence, wonder, discipline, and respect for the dignity of every student.
• Model Christian virtue and provide a faithful witness to students through word and example.
• Participate in school Masses, prayer, retreats, liturgical celebrations, and faith formation opportunities.
• Collaborate with parents as primary educators in the formation of their children.
• Teach classical and worthy literature that develops moral imagination, critical thinking, and appreciation for truth, goodness, and beauty.
• Guide students in close reading, narration, discussion, memorization, and seminar dialogue.
  Introduce students to a broad literary tradition
• Help students recognize themes of virtue, sacrifice, redemption, justice, and human dignity within literature.
• Teach writing as an art of clear thinking and truthful expression.
• Develop student competency in grammar and mechanics, composition structure, narration and imitation, descriptive, analytical and persuasive writing
• Employ instructional methods consistent with the Catholic liberal arts tradition.
• Teach with attention to the developmental needs of adolescents and the formation of habits of attention, perseverance, and wonder while fostering a love for learning.