Job Description

Responsible to:      Head of English Department and Head of Upper School

FLSA Classification:         Exempt

Last Revised:                      September 2024

Position Summary: The Haverford School is seeking a long-term substitute English teacher to teach two English I (9th) and two English II (10th) sections (start date around the first of December and ending in mid January). Preferred candidates will have prior relevant teaching experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Teach four sections of English:
• Prepare course materials such as homework assignments and handouts
• Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records
• Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers
• Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction
• Maintain regularly scheduled office hours in order to advise and assist students
• Possesses an understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion and the implementation of those principles in independent schools.
• Other duties, as assigned

Minimum Acceptable Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in English (Masters preferred)
• Effective communicator, both verbally and in writing, with colleagues and parents
• Enthusiastic interest in teaching, motivating, coaching and mentoring high school students
• A role model for students
• Ability to meet classroom and extracurricular obligations on a consistent schedule
• Demonstrates cultural awareness, including knowledge of themselves and the cultural lenses they bring to interactions
• Sense of humor, enthusiastic, and high, ethical professional standards, and multicultural perspective
• Ability to attend meetings before and after the normal school day schedule and sometimes in the evening

Physical Requirements and Work Environment:

• Works in an environment with a wide variety of challenges, deadlines and a varied and diverse array of contacts
• May work at a desk and computer for extended periods of time.
• Be able to occasionally lift up to 15 lbs
• Work primarily in a traditional climate-controlled office environment

About The Haverford School

THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL IS A VIBRANT, PRIVATE DAY SCHOOL FOR PRE-KINDERGARTEN-12 BOYS. OUR CAMPUS IS LOCATED IN THE HEART OF PHILADELPHIA'S HISTORIC MAIN LINE. AT THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL, BOYS ARE TALENTED SCHOLARS, ARTISTS, AND ATHLETES – AND SO MUCH MORE. OUR EXTRAORDINARY EDUCATORS CHALLENGE AND INSPIRE EVERY STUDENT, WHILE OUR BEST-FOR-BOYS PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES EMPOWER STUDENTS TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.

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