Job Description:

Horizon Honors Elementary School in Phoenix (Ahwatukee) has an immediate need for a Grades 5-6 Science Teacher!

Join a dynamic school team and help students achieve their best. Our students are high-achieving, engaged, motivated, and expect quality instruction from their teachers. We are part of a highly involved family-oriented community that greatly values education.

Horizon Honors is an organization of K-12, public, charter schools that offers hands-on learning opportunities, global awareness, and collaborative leadership training in a rich technological environment.

Horizon Honors Schools is committed to providing a safe learning environment rich in technology where students achieve academic and social excellence while solving real-life problems in a cooperative manner.

Horizon Honors Schools offers employees:

• small-school environment

• great students

• high academic expectations

• high parent involvement

• the chance to be part of developing tomorrow’s leaders

• professional, on-site teacher support system 

POSITION SUMMARY: 

We are looking for a teacher to support students in grades K-6. Our students are high-achieving, engaged, motivated, and expect quality instruction from their teachers. We are part of a family-oriented community with highly involved families that greatly value education. 

We are seeking a teacher with a genuine desire to help students achieve, understand their challenges, and facilitate greater independence. Come join a community where student programming is individualized and students are excelling academically and socially. Work together with a team of dedicated teachers who provide an effective learning environment.

All teachers are provided with individualized coaching/mentoring focused on improving their skills as a teacher. Teachers interact with a high degree of collaboration between staff of all content areas. On-site Staff (only) daycare is available for those with little ones (0-4).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Become an integral part the Horizon Honors community, supporting the Horizon Honors Mission Statement, Goals and school philosophy 

• Design and plan effective lessons targeting individual student academic levels 

• Implement effective instruction for all students, using student data to drive decisions

• Team teach with colleagues 

• Develop and implement curriculum and standards at designated team/content level

• Collaborate with the grade level/content teams to plan and implement curriculum and units

• Create a safe, positive learning environment for all students

• Use effective problem solving skills with students, parents, and colleagues

• Communicate professionally and effectively and in a timely manner with colleagues, students and their parents

• Work in a team environment with teachers and/or teacher assistants to support student academic and social growth

• Participate in weekly meetings including staff meetings, coaching sessions, collaborative planning and ongoing professional growth

• Assigned supervision duties during the school day and outside of school hours

• Other duties as assigned by the principal

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 

These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of a teacher.  Reasonable accommodations can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the responsibilities of this job, the employee is required to talk, hear, and touch. The employee is often required to stand, walk, crouch, balance, stoop, push/pull, sit at a computer desk, reach with arms and hands, and use their hands and fingers to stroke keyboards.  Occasionally, lifting and pushing for medium work are required.  Vision abilities required.

WORK ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS

While performing the responsibilities of this job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment at Horizon Honors  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. 

The employee is subject to both inside and outside conditions.  The noise level is usually quiet to moderate at times.  

SUPERVISOR:
School Principal

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Arizona Teaching Certificate or other Highly Qualified criteria 

• Meet the requirements of Arizona’s Highly Qualified status

• Communication and interpersonal skills required to interact with co-workers, parents, students and the general public including both oral and written clarity, comprehension and expression

• Time management and service-oriented skills

• Ability to handle confidential information

• Similar or related experience preferred

COMPENSATION:
Depending on experience

Please apply at https://www.horizonhonors.org/careers