Part-Time Contract Upper School English Teacher

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Maintain a significant instructional role in the teacher’s content area.
• Utilize ICL Academy’s internal learning management system, student information system, curriculum, and supportive technologies.
• Support students with a wide range of passions, strengths, interests, and needs.
• Conduct the school’s synchronous learning program (the weekly live seminar experience) and asynchronous learning program.
• Create an inclusive, supportive, and engaging learning environment.
• Encourage student participation and peer-to-peer interaction in the live seminars.
• Ensure learning objectives are met in the live seminars.
• Carry out critical administrative tasks related to teaching as determined by the Academic Department Chair, Director of Curriculum, and/or the Head of School.
• Uphold the school’s academic integrity policy and communicate violations to the student, family, academic advisor, and Academic Department Chair as necessary.
• Participate in an annual teacher observation process as required by the Academic Department Chair and/or Head of School.

Grading and Feedback

• Ensure timely (5 business days), accurate, personalized, and high quality grading and feedback of students’ academic work.
• Maintain an up-to-date gradebook for all courses within the learning management system.
• Utilize the school’s AI grading platform, BusyBee, to support the delivery of high quality grading feedback.
• Ensure timely delivery of grading, feedback, and communication during the course extension period each semester.

Office Hours

• Host four 1-hour, live office hour sessions per week during the academic year to address student questions, concerns, and learning needs.

Communication

• Respond in a timely (24 hour) and professional manner to student and family emails and phone calls.
• Communicate important student updates and concerns to the academic advising team and other members of the academic team as needed/appropriate.
• Collaborate with members of the academic team to support students’ success.
• Communicate curricular errors, concerns, and improvements to the Academic Department Chair and/or the Director of Curriculum.

Meeting Attendance

• Attend monthly faculty and/or department meetings as needed/determined by the Academic Department Chair and/or Head of School.
• Attend beginning-of-term faculty orientation each August and January.
• Attend any additional required meetings/orientations as required by the Academic Department Chair, Director of Curriculum, and/or Head of School.