San Diego, California
British Columbia, Canada
Zhuhai, China
San Diego, California
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Posted: 07-Mar-25
Location: Belmont, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
Salary: $66,700-$99,150
Salary Details:
Preferred Education:
Inspire and challenge.
At Belmont Day School, we foster intellectual curiosity, honor differences, and empower meaningful contribution with excellence, respect, honesty, responsibility, caring, and joy.
Middle School Latin Teacher
Belmont Day School seeks a dynamic, skilled, and creative Latin teacher to teach sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade Latin, serve as a middle school advisor, and collaborate with a collegial and skilled team of faculty.
As a teacher and advisor, this person will serve as an integral member of the world language department and grade-level teams. Deep knowledge of and appreciation for teaching the Latin language and ancient Roman history and culture are required. The ideal candidate would have a strong background in Latin instruction, specifically in the middle grades. A qualified candidate will also possess a strong enthusiasm and deep knowledge of middle school students, a commitment to fostering and modeling our core values, and a clear understanding and dedication to equity and inclusion and infusing anti-bias and culturally responsive pedagogy.
This is a full-time, ten-month, exempt, and benefit-eligible position that reports to the middle school head and begins in August, 2025. This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored relocation.
Responsibilities
- Teach one section each of sixth-grade, seventh-grade, and eighth-grade Latin
- Serve as a middle school advisor
- Run a middle school club
- Create and deliver rigorous, effective, and compelling curricular experiences
- Maintain documentation of curriculum
- Work to ensure academic excellence—the ability of students to approach novel tasks with the confidence, mindset, and skills to accomplish them successfully
- Foster an equitable and inclusive community in and outside of the classroom
- Write high school recommendation letters for eighth-grade students applying to independent high schools.
- Serve in one or more roles: Capstone mentor, middle school athletics coach, Growth, Development, and Belonging teacher, or associate teacher mentor
- Collaborate with teams of colleagues to support co-curricular programming and the development of students beyond the classroom
- Keep careful anecdotal and assessment records to inform and write comprehensive student reports
- Lead and assist in parent-teacher conferences focused on the social, emotional, and academic growth of middle school students
- Constructively participate in professional evaluation program
- Provide regular, constructive, and specific feedback to students to encourage their growth and improvement as readers, writers, and speakers
- Establish and maintain strong home-school partnerships with families to ensure students’ success
- Engage with students routinely by providing coverage at lunch, recess, and dismissal, or other duties as needed
- Perform additional responsibilities as required
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
- Minimum of 3-5 years of teaching experience required.
- Experience teaching Latin required
- Experience teaching middle school preferred
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Deep appreciation for and commitment to building an inclusive and innovative community of learners
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to infuse diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice concepts and themes into the academic and social-emotional curriculum, as well as teaching, classroom management, and student and family relationships
- Clear understanding of and dedication to infusing anti-bias, anti-racist, and culturally responsive pedagogy
- Ability to develop a thematic curriculum
- Commitment to professional development and best practices in teaching and learning
- Commitment to effective use of technology in the classroom
- Flexibility, energy, patience, collaborative spirit, and creativity