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Posted: 03-Feb-25
Location: Houston, Texas
Type: Contract
Required Education:
Internal Number: SAAwlf2526
Duration: 12 Month contract- 10-month work/school year
FLSA: Exempt
Schedule: Monday - Friday (plus scheduled events)
Hours: Full-time 7:50 - 3:20
Mission: Rooted in the Catholic, Dominican tradition, St. Agnes Academy challenges young women through exceptional academic preparation and transformational experiences to lead with integrity, joy and a commitment to social justice.
Job Purpose: St. Agnes Academy teachers educate within the high school academic level. They teach, inspire, advise, critique, question, and counsel to bring out the best in our Academy women.
Faith, Community, and Dominican Charism
· Ensure that the four pillars of a Dominican education (prayer, study, community, preaching) are developed and promoted among the school community.
· Develop an active faith community and model Christian values.
· Support prayer and spiritual formation within the student, faculty/staff, and parent communities.
· Uphold and implement the Dominican charism and the Houston Dominican Sisters’ congregational goals.
· Demonstrate a commitment to equity and inclusion by honoring the dignity of each member of the St. Agnes Academy community.
Main Responsibilities:
- Plan, prepare and deliver lesson plans and instructional materials that facilitate active learning.
- Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities.
- Provide a variety of learning materials and resources for use in educational activities.
- Assign and grade class work, homework, tests and assignments in a timely fashion and update systems accordingly.
- Manage student behavior in the classroom by establishing and enforcing rules and procedures. Be familiar and enforce student handbook policies.
- Encourage and monitor the progress of individual students and use information to adjust strategies.
- Prepare required reports on students and activities.
- Communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues, and parents regarding student progress and needs.
- Communicate and partner with parents in a timely manner.
- Follow the faculty expectations outlined in the faculty handbook.
- Participate in department, school, and parent meetings.
- Participate in student/faculty activities (such as retreats, lunch duty, faculty meetings, in-service activities).
- Follow school emergency procedures.
- Work cooperatively with department members to refine curriculum, ensuring alignment across levels of all languages.
- Plan lessons, assessments, and map out skills needed for vertical alignment among all levels.
- Dialog with vertical team members at Strake Jesuit to ensure alignment of skill sets and methodologies.
- Other duties as deemed necessary by the Department Chair, Academic Dean, Principal, Head of School.
Qualifications
· Commitment to embrace the mission of St. Agnes Academy
· Minimum of a four-year B.A./B.S. degree
· Teaching certificate or twelve credit hours in education courses
· Experience teaching in an independent school and/or an all-girls environment a plus
· Ability to establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others
· Proficiency in Microsoft Office
· Professional attitude and appearance
· Completion of Safe Haven training
Specific Academic Area Requirements: French
• Is current in second language acquisition theories
• High School teaching experience preferred
• Can adapt the curriculum to meet student’s needs
• Is aware of the ACTFL proficiency guidelines for designing lessons
• Uses a variety of assessment tools
• Stays current with cultural developments of the Target Language cultures
Work Environment
St. Agnes Academy is committed to hiring, developing, and retaining a diverse and highly competent faculty and staff. This job operates in a professional/educational environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit at a desk, move about the classroom, communicate via phone/face to face, manually input data into a computer, walk to different office areas, reach with hands and arms, and minimal lifting.