Title
Upper School Math Teacher
Location
DVFriends, 19 E. Central Ave, Paoli, PA 19301
Description
About You and the Role
As a math teacher at DVFriends, you will join a dynamic team aligned with the goal of helping bright students with learning differences reach their full potential. Full-time faculty in the upper school teach five academic courses in their department(s) while acting as an academic advisor to 6-8 students. Teachers also fulfill other assigned duties and report directly to their division director. Upper School at DVFriends encompasses grades 9 - 12.
PLEASE COPY AND PASTE this URL in your browser to begin the application process: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/i6g6uyhxat?utm_source=DVFS
About DVFriends
DVFriends is a national leader educating bright students (grades 1-12) with language-based learning differences such as dyslexia and other associated conditions including ADHD and executive function challenges.
Our purposeful Quaker culture recognizes and honors the inherent worth of all people while nurturing a community that values diversity and strives for equity and inclusivity. This philosophy underlies all we do to help students discover and grow their strengths and celebrate their differences.
DVFriends teachers apply deep expertise and innovation to help students learn. Faculty members develop authentic partnerships with students and families to build relationships that foster accountability and trust -- which ultimately yield achievement. Our Orton-Gillingham-based approach incorporates multisensory teaching techniques that empower students to develop effective skills for their unique learning styles.
As a math teacher at DVFriends, you will join a dynamic team aligned with the goal of helping bright students with learning differences reach their full potential. Full-time faculty in the upper school teach five academic courses in their department(s) while acting as an academic advisor to 6-8 students. Teachers also fulfill other assigned duties and report directly to their division director. Upper School at DVFriends encompasses grades 9 - 12.
PLEASE COPY AND PASTE this URL in your browser to begin the application process: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/i6g6uyhxat?utm_source=DVFS
About DVFriends
DVFriends is a national leader educating bright students (grades 1-12) with language-based learning differences such as dyslexia and other associated conditions including ADHD and executive function challenges.
Our purposeful Quaker culture recognizes and honors the inherent worth of all people while nurturing a community that values diversity and strives for equity and inclusivity. This philosophy underlies all we do to help students discover and grow their strengths and celebrate their differences.
DVFriends teachers apply deep expertise and innovation to help students learn. Faculty members develop authentic partnerships with students and families to build relationships that foster accountability and trust -- which ultimately yield achievement. Our Orton-Gillingham-based approach incorporates multisensory teaching techniques that empower students to develop effective skills for their unique learning styles.
Benefits
You'll benefit from:
• A robust health insurance plan, including a school contribution that covers the employee cost and a portion of the cost for a partner and dependents.
• Employer match of retirement plan contributions up to 6% of salary.
• A 10-month contract, allowing ample time for recharging your battery over the summer.
• A robust health insurance plan, including a school contribution that covers the employee cost and a portion of the cost for a partner and dependents.
• Employer match of retirement plan contributions up to 6% of salary.
• A 10-month contract, allowing ample time for recharging your battery over the summer.
Requirements
You'll be the right person for this job if:
• You want to work for a school that improves kids’ lives alongside people who share that motivation.
• You have had meaningful experience working with kids and/or teens that has energized you and made you optimistic about what students can achieve with the right supports and guidance.
• You communicate well, and you have well-developed organization and executive function skills to lead and manage a complex and nuanced learning environment.
• You see differences among students and adults as value-added, opening up creative pathways to learning and setting the stage for more equitable communities.
• You know yourself well, faults and strengths, and approach others with empathy and generosity of spirit.
• You actively face challenges and lean into problems, drawing upon people and resources to solve them.
• Being around young people provides you with optimism and energy.
• You have a college degree by the position’s start date.
Please use this URL to start the application process:
https://app.beapplied.com/apply/i6g6uyhxat?utm_source=DVFS
• You want to work for a school that improves kids’ lives alongside people who share that motivation.
• You have had meaningful experience working with kids and/or teens that has energized you and made you optimistic about what students can achieve with the right supports and guidance.
• You communicate well, and you have well-developed organization and executive function skills to lead and manage a complex and nuanced learning environment.
• You see differences among students and adults as value-added, opening up creative pathways to learning and setting the stage for more equitable communities.
• You know yourself well, faults and strengths, and approach others with empathy and generosity of spirit.
• You actively face challenges and lean into problems, drawing upon people and resources to solve them.
• Being around young people provides you with optimism and energy.
• You have a college degree by the position’s start date.
Please use this URL to start the application process:
https://app.beapplied.com/apply/i6g6uyhxat?utm_source=DVFS
Files
- US Math Job Description -- DVFS _1_ (3.61 MB)