Religion Teacher- Incarnate Word High School

Incarnate Word High School, an all-girls Catholic high school sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, seeks a Religion teacher for the 2024-2025 school year. The position entails a full-time teaching schedule. Candidate must have current licensure. Catholic candidates preferred. The school seeks to maintain a fully and authentically Catholic environment.

REPORTS TO:

This position reports to the Principal of Incarnate Word High School (IWHS).

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:

• Prepare curriculum documents to include standards, scope and sequences, syllabi, and lesson plans.

• Use appropriate and varied instructional strategies, activities, and materials to promote student success and achievement.

• Consistently monitor student achievement through appropriate and varied formative and summative assessments.

• Update the school's electronic gradebook site Blackbaud with lesson plans and student grades at least once per week.

• Establish and maintain open communication with students, their parents, and administration.

• Attend faculty meetings, events, and professional development.

• Collaborate with other faculty members for professional, instructional, and supervisory duties.

• Assume a variety of roles in support of student activities outside of class, both during the school day and after normal school hours.

• Attend all faculty retreats, and class retreats as assigned.

• Attend all faith-centered activities to include school liturgies and prayer services.

• Have the ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, parents, and co-workers.

• Willingness to assume other extra-curricular duties as needed.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Be an active Catholic, with a desire and ability to lead young people by example into a deeper communion with our faith, our Blessed Mother, and her Son, Jesus Christ.

• Have knowledge of both curriculum and instruction, and the ability to engage and instruct students in the content area.

• Have the ability to manage a classroom along with student behavior.

• Promptly address student needs through interventions, including modifying instructional approaches.

• Have the ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, parents, and co-workers.

• Be a lifelong learner of his/her practice, and have an openness to self-reflect, receive, and implement feedback on improving their teaching skills.

• Understanding of the Mission of Incarnate Word High School.

• Successful completion of VIRTUS and background check.

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Theology.

• A valid Texas Teacher's Certificate, or 12 credit hours in education courses.

• Technology Proficiency (word processing, spreadsheets, databases, multimedia presentations, and internet use for educational purposes.