Math Faculty POSITION
“School Year Abroad (SYA) is committed to promoting intercultural understanding and appreciation through the immersive adventure of fully engaging with different languages and peoples. SYA guides its students through a challenging curriculum focused on developing skills and cultural competencies for an increasingly interdependent world.”
Full-time teaching at SYA is a role that combines instruction, guidance and frequent collaboration with faculty and staff from SYA and occasionally with sending schools. Teachers are expected to use SYA’s mission statement to guide their teaching and advising. At SYA, math is taught in English.
Requirements
Extensive experience teaching all levels of high school math, up to and including AP Calculus BC, and as an advisor, preferably at an independent school in the United States.
Duties and expectations at an SYA school
General:
- Set clearly articulated standards for student academic performance.
- Set reasonable and defensible standards for student behavior.
- Enforce school rules justly, fairly, and consistently.
- Demonstrate high levels of enthusiasm for teaching/learning.
- Demonstrate genuine commitment to school, purposes, leadership and peers.
- Portray a positive image of the school, its faculty, and its programs when working with students at all times.
- Work with other faculty in a way that demonstrates respect, openness, and an ability to focus on the school’s mission at all times.
- Maintain proper boundaries with students and engage students in a way that is encouraging, positive, and respects the educative process.
- Use the Slack communication tool to communicate with students, faculty and the SYA administration.
- Maintain and regularly check an SYA.org email.
- Serve on the school’s discipline committee.
- Proctoring of standardised testing.
- Fulfill other duties as assigned by the Resident Director.
Teaching:
- Follow SYA’s curriculum and prescribed sequence of topics while exercising your own teaching style to ensure students success. SYA supplies extensive problem sets to select from.
- Ensure meeting particular needs of individual students.
- Teach five sections of math.
- Provide outside-of-class help to students on a regular and predictable basis.
- Provide consistent adherence to school rules and community norms while in class and in school activities at all times.
- Create predictable assessments and offer reliable preparation for assessments.
- Provide fair, reliable, understandable and clear grading structures.
- Provide a course syllabus that meets expectations provided by the SYA academic office.
- Write teacher comments 4 times per year.
- Provide letters of recommendation in English for students who request them and who were in good standing.
- Use the Canvas Learning Management System to provide access to the course syllabus, post all work for the course, and to grade all student work.
Advising:
- Serve as academic advisor for a number of advisees determined by the Resident Director.
- Deliver the advisory curriculum using guidelines outlined by the Resident Director.
- Take attendance at all advisory meetings and events.
- Write advisor letters in English 3-4 times per year
Travel:
- Possible participation in chaperoning of student travel as directed by the Resident Director.
Collaboration:
- Contribute to planning and shared interdisciplinary projects with other faculty.
- Participate in school committees as requested by the Resident Director.
- Actively participate in curriculum development with faculty colleagues - both local and at other SYA campuses.
- Attend faculty meetings and school events as requested by the Resident Director.
Professional Development:
- Engage in professional development as organized by SYA around topics of teaching methodology, assessment, lesson and unit planning, interdisciplinary projects and other topics regarding professional teaching abroad.
- Meet with the Resident Director regarding formal and informal class observations and provide a lesson plan in advance for any formal class observations.