Learning Specialist

Job Description

Education: The candidate should have a Master's degree and state certification in the subject area and/or secondary education or must obtain it within four years from the date of hire.

Experience: Three to five years' experience working with students with learning challenges in a high school environment preferred. However, those with less experience will be considered. Familiarity/expertise in IEPs required. Teaching experience a plus.

Subject areas: Duties include working with individual and groups of students with documented learning needs along with teaching one or two English skills classes.

Duties:

Plans, organizes, and develops a comprehensive teaching and instruction program for students.

Utilizes a variety of instructional material and aids appropriate to the intellectual and instructional level of students from varied socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.

Provides a motivating and stimulating learning environment incorporating appropriate use of technology as a pedagogical tool.

Provides group and individual instruction to motivate pupils and effectively utilize the time available for instructional activities.

Reviews, analyzes, evaluates, and reports student's academic, social and emotional growth.

Provides a motivating and stimulating learning environment.

Start Date: September 3, 2024, with new faculty orientation taking place in late August.

Salary: Commensurate with experience and credentials. Starting salary $50,000.

Contact: Please email school@lasalleacademy.org with resumes.

About the Employer

La Salle Academy is a rigorous all-male private, independent college-preparatory Catholic high school conducted in the Lasallian tradition. We educate students of diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and offer opportunities for them to achieve their potential. We provide a nurturing environment, which fosters spiritual, moral, intellectual, emotional, and physical growth. We challenge young men to be successful students, foster a commitment to service, and prepare our graduates to be life-long learners and caring citizens of the world.