English Teacher
Job Product: Student understanding of English that furthers the development of character and intellect.
General Purpose: The English teacher is responsible for providing students with appropriate learning activities and experiences designed to develop academic excellence, virtue, and leadership.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Subject matter knowledge
- Knowledge of one or more of the following:
- Classical literature including Ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Roman literature (Greek mythology, Bible as literature, Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Cicero, etc.)
- American literature including the Colonial Period, the Revolutionary Period, American Romanticism and the American Renaissance, the Civil War and the post-war period, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama from the early 20th century to the present (Edwards, Crevecoeur, Bradstreet, Franklin, Twain, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Poe, Emerson, Dickinson, Whitman, Cummings, Frost, Eliot, Miller, etc.)
- British and World literature (Anglo-Saxon period, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Restoration and the 18th century, the Romantic Period, the Victorian Period, and the 20th century) and other European literature, world myths, and folktales (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, the Romantic poets, Dickens, Wilde, Solzhenitsyn, Dante, etc.)
- Knowledge of Standard English usage and composition
- Characteristics of the different genres of literature
- Various schools of literary criticism
- History and structure of the English language
- Knowledge of the rules and conventions of standard written and spoken English
- Rhetoric and composition
- Principles of classical rhetoric
- Modern and contemporary theories of rhetoric
- Similarities and differences between oral and written communication
- Reading theory, research, and practice at the middle and high school level
Faithfully implements curriculum
Manages classroom climate and operation
Promotes achievement
Meets professional responsibilities
Other duties and responsibilities as needed or assigned
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor degree, preferably in English or Literature, with at least 36 semester hours in content area
Experience:
Prior teaching experience preferred but not required
The English Teacher must submit to and pass a CBI / FBI fingerprint background check as a condition of employment.