Middle School Literature/Writing Teacher

St. Peter Catholic School: Classically forming the whole child with truth and virtue.

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.