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Middle School English Teacher

Needed for September 2025
Exempt
10-month

Wilmington Friends, a Quaker school with high standards for academic achievement, challenges students to seek truth, to value justice and peace, and to act as creative, independent thinkers with a conscious responsibility to the good of all

Wilmington Friends School is a Preschool to 12 Quaker, college preparatory, day school located in Wilmington, Delaware enrolling 700 students.

Job Description: This position involves teaching seventh and eighth grade English and serving as a student advisor. A highly qualified candidate is one who...
  • Understands the developmental needs of the early adolescent and adolescent child;       
  • Is familiar with current standards for curriculum development, teaching practice, and assessment in English/language arts, including National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) standards;
  • Is familiar with current research and/or practice in teaching and learning English that places contextualized, multi-faceted, hands-on problems at the heart of the curriculum so that students have the opportunity to construct understanding and real-world application of English concepts and skills, particularly writing;
  • Is passionate about literature and writing and is fostering this same enthusiasm in young scholars;
  • Will bring imagination, a positive attitude, and energy to work with students of ranging experiences and abilities with social studies;
  • Is committed to planning and teaching interdisciplinary and problem-based units in cooperation with other faculty;
  • Is interested in collaborating with colleagues across disciplines and grade levels;  
  • Is aware of and can use effectively a wide-range of techniques and methods in the classroom which stimulate students and which respond to different learning styles;
  • Will contribute in other significant ways to the Wilmington Friends School community (e.g. coach a sport, help with drama productions, run professional development workshops, sponsor an activity, etc.);
  • Seeks to serve on a faculty that in division-level groups and through committee work contributes significantly to school governance.
Specifically, the highly-qualified candidate will be able to teach all levels of English, grades 6-8.  Teachers within the program focus on the goal of developing students’ positive attitudes toward reading; their readiness to write—and to revise—in various modes; their confidence and facility in self-expression; and their capacity to organize and comfortably manage their assignments. Skills in speaking/oral presentation, reading, writing, vocabulary development, organization, and grammar and mechanics are taught in each course. Methods include in-class essays and take-home essays (in stages of thesis statement, outline, first draft, and final draft); student multimedia presentations; dramatizations; cooperative learning groups; reading aloud, and creative writing.  Teachers set high expectations for students in aspects of grammar, writing mechanics, vocabulary, and literary terminology. 

We are particularly interested in hearing from qualified candidates who want to work in a school that emphasizes community-building, the value of diversity, the full development of each individual, and service to others.
 
If interested, please send your resume to Jonathan Huxtable, Head of Middle School (jhuxtable@wilmingtonfriends.org).  We will invite, for interviews and demonstration teaching on campus, those candidates whose interests and experiences best fit our needs.  

It is Wilmington Friends School’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, first responder status, or other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.  It is the intent and resolve of Wilmington Friends School to comply with the letter and the spirit of the law in the implementation of all facets of equal opportunity.  This equal opportunity policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, training, promotion, compensation, termination, and retirement.
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