Religion Teacher-Incarnate Word High School

Description

Incarnate Word High School, an all-girls Catholic high school sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, seeks a Religion teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. The position entails a full-time teaching schedule. Candidate must have current licensure. Catholic candidates preferred. The school seeks to maintain a fully and authentically Catholic environment.  

Reports To:

This position reports to the Principal of Incarnate Word High School (IWHS). 

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Prepare curriculum documents to include standards, scope and sequences, syllabi, and lesson plans.
• Use appropriate and varied instructional strategies, activities, and materials to promote student success and achievement.
• Consistently monitor student achievement through appropriate and varied formative and summative assessments.
• Update the school's electronic gradebook site Blackbaud with student grades at least once per week.
• Keep class pages in Google Classroom current.
• Post lesson plans weekly.
• Establish and maintain open communication with students, their parents, and administration.
• Attend faculty meetings, events, and professional development.
• Collaborate with other faculty members for professional, instructional, and supervisory duties.
• Assume a variety of roles in support of student activities outside of class, both during the school day and after normal school hours.
• Attend all faculty retreats, and class retreats as assigned.
• Attend all faith-centered activities to include school liturgies and prayer services.
• Have the ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, parents, and co-workers.
• Willingness to assume other extra-curricular duties as needed.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Be an active Catholic, with a desire and ability to lead young people by example into a deeper communion with our faith, our Blessed Mother, and her Son, Jesus Christ.
• Have knowledge of both curriculum and instruction, and the ability to engage and instruct students in the content area.
• Have the ability to manage a classroom along with student behavior.
• Promptly address student needs through interventions, including modifying instructional approaches.
• Have the ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, parents, and co-workers.
• Be a lifelong learner of his/her practice, and have an openness to self-reflect, receive, and implement feedback on improving their teaching skills.
• Understanding of the Mission of Incarnate Word High School.
• Successful completion of VIRTUS and background check.
• REQUIRED EDUCATION:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Theology.
• A valid Texas Teacher’s Certificate, or 12 credit hours in education courses.
• Technology Proficiency (word processing, spreadsheets, databases, multimedia presentations, and internet use for educational purposes.