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Classical History Teacher

General Purpose:  The teacher is responsible for developing students’ academic excellence and virtue by creating a positive culture of inquiry and learning and providing students with challenging and meaningful learning activities and experiences. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Subject matter knowledge

  • World History:  human beginnings and early civilizations (Africa, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Egypt, India, China); roots of Western civilization (Israel, Greece, Rome); English and Western European history; Renaissance and the age of exploration; development of Asia, Africa, and South America; age of revolutionary change in Europe; the world in the era of two World Wars; and the world from 1945 to the present
  • Geography: Major physical features of the world; key concepts of geography and its effects on various peoples
  • Government: similarities, differences, key concepts, and implications of various forms of government throughout history and around the world
  • Methods and Sources for Research in History
  • Ongoing awareness and understanding of world and U.S. current events and their context from a historical perspective

Plans curriculum and instruction 

Delivers effective instruction

Manages classroom climate and operation

Promotes achievement

Meets professional responsibilities

Other Duties and Responsibilities:  As needed or assigned

Minimum Requirements: 

Bachelor degree, preferably in history, with at least 24 semester hours in content area

Experience: 

Prior teaching experience preferred but not required