Employment

Elementary Teacher Needed

Heatherwood Christian School is seeking a motivated teacher to lead our 3rd and 4th Grade Classes for the 2025-26 School Year. Our school has a rich history of combining Biblical teaching with a strong academic program to help our students achieve age appropriate goals. 

Teacher Job Responsibilities: 

• Contributes to student’s academic and spiritual learning, growth, and advancement.
• Demonstrates academic competence in elementary education.
• Maintains a growth mindset toward student learning, teaching practice, and personal/collective professional development.
• Demonstrates a high degree of motivation and advocates for their students; works efficiently; and believes in their ability, the capability of their students, and themselves to succeed and excel.
• Facilitates problem-solving with a curious mind and critical thinking skills.
• Serves as a role model and an innovative and creative learner, open and seeking personal growth, and being on the cutting edge of instructional practice and pedagogy.
• Collaborates effectively with peers within the organization and with external partners to increase student learning.
• Invests in the learners’ well-being, health, and safety, spiritually, physically, socially, and emotionally.
• Recognizes the relationship between social-emotional learning and academic performance, and aspires toward developing and teaching the whole child.
• Designs and facilitates differentiated and personalized learning goals and activities that follow a coherent sequence, are aligned to instructional goals, and engage students in high-level cognitive activity.

Hours: The hours required for this position are 7:30 am – 3:00 pm with the teacher having students from 8:00 – 2:30 Monday through Friday. 

Teacher Qualifications/Skills:

• Knowledge of instructional methods appropriate for students at the respective grade level.
• Desire and ability to work with students at the specified age level with diverse backgrounds and levels of ability toward accomplishing their educational goals.
• Ability to organize tasks and manage time to meet many and varied deadlines; manage small and large groups of students in a classroom environment; and communicate effectively with students, parents, school administrators and other staff, including the ability to discuss topics which may be sensitive.
• Working familiarity with assistive technologies; internet and email systems; and word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software.
• Familiarity with computers (PC and Apple) and their use in instruction to enhance student learning.
• Working knowledge of various office and video equipment.
• Knowledge of educational software.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in education or related field
• Recent teaching experience, coursework, or other activity in area of primary instruction
• Demonstrated knowledge of current instructional strategies appropriate for students at the specified grade level
• Previous experience teaching the age levels and subject areas of the specific teaching position is preferred but not required.

If you are interested in this position, please send your résume to Tara Crane at tcrane@hbcnewnan.org.