• Job Description

  Req#: 17447
  Position Type:
  High School Teaching/ Social Studies (multiple subjects)
  
  
  Date Posted:
  2/6/2025
  
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  Location:
  Newhalen School
  
  
  Date Available:
  08/25/2025
  
  
  Closing Date:
  02/13/2025
  
  
  District:
  Lake & Peninsula Borough School District
  Possess teaching certificate or willing to pursue a teaching certificate.
  Familiar with a Standard-Based System.
  Knowledge and experience with RTI/MTSS preferable.
  Experience in a cross cultural setting is highly desirable.
  Strong interpersonal skills including collegiality and collaboration.
  Positive, enthusiastic, energetic and optimistic. Committed to Excellence!
  The ability to implement the District's mission, vision, and instructional goals.
  Meet professional teacher requirements of school, district and State.
  Plan, prepare and deliver lesson plans and instructional materials that facilitate active, standards-based learning.
  Assess student progress and proficiency and adjust instruction accordingly.
  Use relevant technology to support and differentiate online instruction.
  Manage student behavior in the classroom by establishing and enforcing rules and procedures.
  Encourage and monitor the progress of individual students and use information to adjust teaching strategies. Provide appropriate feedback on work.
  Maintain accurate and complete records of students’ progress and development using PowerSchool.
  Participate in district professional development.
  Communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues, and parents regarding student progress, needs and concerns.
  Able to create strong partnerships with parents and guardians to improve student learning.
  Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities.
  2025-2026 Newhalen School Secondary Social Studies Teacher Posting.pdf
  2025-2026 School Year Teaching Opening:
  Newhalen School
  MS/HS Social Studies Teacher
  The Position: This is a secondary social studies position, meaning you will predominantly teach multiple middle and high school levels of social studies. Newhalen School currently has an enrollment of 82 students, K-12.
  Reports to: On-site or Itinerant Principal
  Salary: Appropriate Placement on Teacher’s Salary Scale
  Closing Date: February 13, 2025. Open until filled afterwards.
  Starting Date: August 25, 2025
  Location: Newhalen, Alaska
  QUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
  • Possess teaching certificate or willing to pursue a teaching certificate.

  • Familiar with a Standard-Based System.

  • Knowledge and experience with RTI/MTSS preferable.

  • Experience in a cross cultural setting is highly desirable.

  • Strong interpersonal skills including collegiality and collaboration.

  • Positive, enthusiastic, energetic and optimistic. Committed to Excellence!

  • The ability to implement the District's mission, vision, and instructional goals.

  • Meet professional teacher requirements of school, district and State.
  ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
  • Plan, prepare and deliver lesson plans and instructional materials that facilitate active, standards-based learning.

  • Assess student progress and proficiency and adjust instruction accordingly.

  • Use relevant technology to support and differentiate online instruction.

  • Manage student behavior in the classroom by establishing and enforcing rules and procedures.

  • Encourage and monitor the progress of individual students and use information to adjust teaching strategies. Provide appropriate feedback on work.

  • Maintain accurate and complete records of students’ progress and development using PowerSchool.

  • Participate in district professional development.

  • Communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues, and parents regarding student progress, needs and concerns.

  • Able to create strong partnerships with parents and guardians to improve student learning.

  • Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities.
  SALARY:
  Accepting all AK teaching experience, and up to six years out of state experience, for initial placement. Starting at $51,259 (BA+0yrs) to $86,408 (BA72/MA36+13yrs).
  BENEFITS:
  Open communities and welcoming students; $1,600 relocation reimbursement, Subsidized Housing; Premium Health Insurance Plan; Personal and Sick Leave; $10,000 Service Incentive after five-years continuous service; Travel Benefits including flights to/from your Village; Subsidized M.Ed. program in Culturally Responsive Education
  SCHOOL YEAR: LPSD operates under a “Subsistence Calendar” in which students receive 150 days of instruction, and the teacher obligation is 172 days, one of the shortest in the nation. Teachers start in late August, and are done in early May!
  FOR CONSIDERATION: Please go to https://www.lpsd.com/employment.html to apply for this position. Email bcornell@lpsd.com with questions you have.
  DISCLAIMER: The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive description. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, handicapping condition, or national origin.
  
  
  

• About the company

  The Alaska Teacher Placement (ATP) office at the University of Alaska is the official job bank for K-12 teaching and school administration jobs in Alaska.

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