Classroom Teacher

Come work in a highly supportive, family-like rural setting with smaller student body sizes than traditional public schools as a Classroom Teacher for our Boys Residential Academy located in Yanceyville, NC. Make more than a living—make a difference.

About Our Residential Academy

Eckerd Connects' Short-Term Juvenile Justice Residential program is a complete rehabilitative experience delivered in 4 to 6 months to 40 adjudicated male youth, ages 13 to 17, referred by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety Division of Juvenile Justice. This residential treatment concept combines promising and evidence-based practices with a strong family transition component and signifies a public-private partnership with the Division of Juvenile Justice. It represents an innovative shift in the way youth are served in North Carolina's juvenile justice system.

Intensive, short-term services include individualized treatment and academic plans that combine formal and experiential education, community service, behavioral health, and family counseling in a non-punitive environment designed to address the youth's behavioral challenges through a strength-based approach. Youth also receive accredited education on-site and work together in small group settings with assigned counselors.

Our program location: Boys Residential Academy at Yanceyville, 437 Main Street, Yanceyville, NC 27379.

Responsibilities

• Must meet NC state teacher certification eligibility requirements.
• Provide direct special education instruction to identified students.
• Plan, prepare, deliver, and/or direct instructional activities that actively engage students in meaningful and relevant learning experiences, including opportunities for them to explore application of higher-order thinking skills and to investigate new approaches to applying their learning.
• Design and use various instructional strategies, innovations, and activities that are research-based, reflective of best practice, and compatible with the total program effort.
• Differentiate instruction and educational programs and/or projects to meet students' special interests, learning styles, and identified level of academic achievement, intellectual and physical ability, and social and emotional functioning.
• Maintain knowledge of and implement established curriculum based on clearly defined state standards.
• Integrate subject matter through effective thematic development.
• Provide vocational/career instruction, as required, and a positive academic learning climate where students are encouraged to be productive learners and take pride in their work.
• Participate in development, implementation, and revision of personal education plans for all program students, to include IEPs, as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
• Conduct standardized and diagnostic testing, as required; monitor, document, and analyze student performance data, and use results to make decisions to improve outcomes.
• Provide input into ordering necessary instructional materials, supplies, and equipment in sufficient numbers to support the educational program and implement its plans for improvement.
• Maintain secure, accurate, and complete student record-keeping system that monitors student progress, to include a current, up-to-date student work folder.
• Participate in a continuous program of professional development that supports achievement of the program's improvement goals.
• Complete all training, in-service, and staff development requirements as set forth by Eckerd and its contracting, licensing, accrediting, and state teacher certification agencies.
• Ability to restrain youth in accordance with approved techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, required.
• Must meet NC state teacher certification eligibility requirements.
• Prefer state certification in all core subject areas taught.
• Prefer endorsement/certification in one or more of these areas: Reading, ESOL, and special education.
• Must maintain appropriate certification to meet Highly Qualified requirements for assigned classes.
• Must acquire certifications no later than 6 months after employment.
• 2+ years of successful teaching experience preferred.
• Must be free of communicable diseases as defined by the appropriate state and to the extent that data is attainable under federal law.
• Must be able to meet requirements for Eckerd’s Auto Insurance and be able to drive for business purposes.
• Must have and maintain an appropriate and valid state driver’s license.

Benefits

• Low-cost medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 19 days of paid time off the first year
• 11 paid holidays
• Retirement savings plan with employer match up to 5%
• Flexible spending accounts
• Paid short-term and voluntary long-term disability
• Group term life and AD&D insurance
• Voluntary term life insurance

Extra Benefits

• Meals provided when on duty

Pay

Annual salary rate: $50,000