Upper School English Teaching Position

We are seeking an experienced full-time educator with exemplary teaching skills, a commitment to facilitating the growth of each student, and a desire for ongoing professional collaboration and growth to teach Upper School English. Successful candidates will have energy, enthusiasm, and experience teaching at the secondary school level. In addition, excellent candidates will:

• Hold applicable licensing/certification

• Think creatively and progressively about instruction and pedagogy in literature and composition

• Have the ability to produce significant gains in student outcomes.

• Be enthusiastic about educating young people in the Holy Cross tradition.

• Desire to work meaningfully with colleagues in professional development, with a focus on integrating instructional technologies across academic disciplines and divisions.

The quality of our faculty is one of the most important factors of our success at Gilmour Academy. Our teachers are curriculum experts possessing strong pedagogical knowledge and sophisticated skills required to teach effectively. Our teachers facilitate the development of appropriate knowledge, skills, and social abilities through an integrated and personalized learning approach, which enables the optimum development of our students. Our teachers are highly effective collaborators and leaders, developing strong relationships with students and their parents/guardians and they strive to infuse our Holy Cross traditions and values into their courses and classrooms.

Gilmour Academy is an independent, Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory school in the Holy Cross tradition. The school’s mission is to develop students with the ability to see and the courage to act in creating a more humane and just society. Gilmour instills in every student a strong sense of self-worth through personal achievement and the discovery of his or her own voice.

The world our students will soon lead will require them to be persons of great competence, courage, and moral stamina, with an enthusiastic, lifelong desire to learn. The ideal applicant will share our passion for facilitating such development.