Job Description

Job Location: Charlotte Campus - Charlotte, NC 28277
Position Type: Full TimeEducation
Level: 4 Year Degree
Travel Percentage: Negligible
Job Shift: Day
Job Category: EducationCharlotte Latin School is searching for a 5th-grade Science teacher. This is a full-time, 10-month position that will begin August 2026.
Description:
- Teach and assess 5th-grade Next Gen Science standards with a variety of tools and pedagogical strategies
- Facilitate inquiry-based, hands-on experiments that align with Next Gen Science Standards that enable and inspire students to learn through questioning, exploration, and observation.
- Teach the scientific process and experimental design.
- Teach non-fiction critical reading, analysis, and synthesis skills in the content area of Science to 100 fifth-grade students in classes of 25 for 45-minute blocks, 2 blocks daily.
- Employ a variety of instructional techniques, project-based lesson-design principles, technology, and media that guide the learning process toward student mastery
- Use a variety of resources to promote learning, creativity, and collaboration
- Serve as a Home Room Co-Lead with the Social Studies teacher
- Support Social Studies Co-Lead with classroom management and instructional support as needed. Collaborate on coordinating the instruction of the two content areas for appropriate balance for students and teachers
- Work directly with colleagues in the development, implementation, and evaluation of fifth-grade curriculum.
- Collaborate with Middle School Science Teachers to ensure students have the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful at the next level.
- Attend professional development and training related to teaching Science
- Participate in committee work, faculty meetings, and carpool duty as scheduled
- Work with the Leads with Honor faculty on the 5th-grade garden
- Incorporate movement and the Responsive Classroom pillars into classroom management and routine
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education, required
- Minimum of three years teaching experience, preferably with an emphasis in Science
- Teaching experience in grades 3-6 preferred
- Inquiry-based teaching experience
Experience
- Strong classroom management skills with a commitment to safety and civility
- Humble Collaborator, Effective Communicator, and Curious Learner
- Exhibit a love of working with children in this age group
- Ability to build a strong rapport with colleagues
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong desire to participate in the whole life of the school.
- Show a great deal of flexibility in working with colleagues and students and sharing classroom space.
- Willing and able to resolve conflicts with colleagues, parents, and between students.
- A philosophical alignment with our core values and curriculum and instruction, which can be found on our website: www.charlottelatin.org including a commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion
Working Conditions and Environment
- Intermittently lift, carry, push, and pull up to 25 pounds.
- Continuously see, sit, balance, grasp, and have repetitive use of arms, wrists, hands, and fingers; and some fine finger dexterity.
- Frequently talk and hear.
- Intermittently stand, stoop, bend, twist, crouch, kneel, crawl, walk, climb stairs, step stools and ladders, operate foot and hand controls, squeeze, and reach above shoulders.
- Exposure to dust, chemicals, fumes, flammables, grease, dirt, stacked materials, electrical equipment, machinery, low to medium noise levels, and moderate indoor temperatures of heat and cold.
- Long or odd hours, as needed.