Job Description
Desert Christian School is looking for a part time/full time High School Math Teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. The DCS teacher is dedicated to biblically based, student-centered learning in the Algebra 1 and/or Algebra 2 classroom. This involves understanding the algebraic concepts, communicating them clearly to students via engaging lessons, monitoring/assessing student progress, and connecting the learning to our Creator and His Creation. The DCS teacher should be relational with students and foster a positive learning environment where students feel academically challenged yet supported. This includes motivating students to see value in their mathematical learning. In addition, the teacher should be capable of working with other math staff members by providing/receiving feedback, following math department policies, and connecting learning across different math classes.
Ministry Description Summary:
He/she has a calling in his/her heart to serve God as a faculty member; who is assured of his/her personal worth and professional competence, both being in balance with the Scriptures; who leads a consecrated life before the Lord, co-workers, and students, and is a committed follower of Jesus Christ. He/she shows a high degree of professionalism and responsibility in the fulfillment of his/her duties as a faculty member of DCS.
Job Requirements
Math Specific Job Duties:
- Design and utilize Algebra 1 and/or Algebra 2 curriculum that prepares students for college
- Identify a learning goal/objective for each Algebra lesson
- Create engaging lesson plans designed to communicate algebraic concepts
- Deliver classroom lessons in which students actively participate in algebraic learning
- Individually help struggling students during class (notes and homework) when time allows
- Evaluate student work (graded and ungraded) as it relates to the learning goal/objective
- Create summative assessments (tests and projects) that reveal student learning
- Involve appropriate learning resources (electronic math texts, calculators, computers, etc.)
- Communicate with other math teachers about curriculum and learning
- Help students discover/realize that math is God’s language of design for His universe
- Meet and help individual students with algebraic learning during office hours
- Inspire/motivate students to do their best and see value in math learning exercises
General Job Duties:
- Develop skills in biblical integration throughout curriculum and daily living
- Develop a positive rapport with both students and parents
- Be familiar with and adhere to all adopted school statements, scope and sequence, school handbooks, and curriculum guides
- Conduct parent-teacher conferences during the school year sufficient to maintain effective school-home communication
- Assess the learning of students on a regular basis and provide progress reports as required
- Maintain grades on FACTS (formerly RenWeb), posting weekly, or as mandated by administrator
- Maintain regular and accurate attendance records
- Keep students, parents, and the administration adequately informed of progress or deficiencies of student academic work and give sufficient notice of failure
- Follow the Matthew 18 principle in dealing with conflict with students, parents, faculty/staff, and administration
- Maintain a teachable attitude
- Perform duties that may be assigned by the administration
- Show professional knowledge and growth through continued study and attendance at appropriate conferences and workshops
- Regularly attend and participate in meetings and applicable in-service sessions
- Work as team member with other faculty/staff, maintaining a supportive and encouraging relationship with other teachers, and assisting in the development/implementation of programs/processes to enhance the school’s overall program
- Control, distribute, and inventory applicable school-owned resources (i.e., textbooks, audiovisuals, kits, and equipment) and cultivate a respect for those materials in students
- Coordinate off-campus learning experiences
- Maintain regular communication with parents
- Effectively represent the school, its program, policies and philosophy to the community
- Cooperate with the board and administration in implementing all policies, procedures and directives governing the operation of the school
- Teach classes as assigned, following the prescribed scope and sequence in the curriculum guide and creating effective daily lesson plans
- Keep proper discipline in the classroom, on the school premises, and out in the community to promote a good learning environment and witness
- Maintain a clean, attractive, well-ordered classroom
- In collaboration with the Exceptional Student Services staff, employ a variety of instructional aids, methods, and materials that will provide for creative teaching to reach the whole child: spiritual, mental, physical, social, and emotional
- Support the broader program of the school by attending extra-curricular activities when possible
Education Requirements
BA/BS Degree
2 plus years experience preferred