Duties
Position Summary
A HS Math Teacher is responsible for providing high-quality instruction aligned with the Illinois Learning Standards, fostering academic growth, and supporting the development of all students. The teacher creates a safe, inclusive, and engaging classroom environment that promotes student achievement and collaboration with families and colleagues, while emphasizing mathematics and real world applications.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Communicates expectations for high levels of learning by students
- Assess students’ knowledge and skills
- Specifies lesson purposes and learning objectives
- Provides learning tasks of appropriate difficulty level for the students
- Relates new content to previously presented material and to students’ prior knowledge
- Teaches clearly, audibly, precisely and fluently while keeping to the topic
- Instructs with a variety of methods: lecture, modeling, demonstrating, experimenting, role playing, eliciting collaboration around content and signs of student comprehension
- Teaches accurate principles, concepts, rationale, and applications as well as specific content
- Provides students with prompt feedback on their learning, performance, and progress
- Requires students to recall, explain, compare, contrast and evaluate information
- Provides students with prompt and appropriate feedback on their learning, performance and progress
- Re-teaches as necessary
- Summarizes the main points of the lesson, brings closure, and explains what will be taught next
- Encourages student input for improvement of instruction
- Establishes procedures for routine classroom management matters, communicates those procedures to students, and elicits feedback from students regarding their understanding of those procedures
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Appropriate Illinois Licensure
- Superior work habits and ethics
- Excellent communications skills (written & verbal)
- Ability to work well with students, faculty and parents
- Interacts with students in a mutually respectful manner
- Expresses verbal enthusiasm for the lesson and student participation
- Praises students for accomplishments, on-task behaviors and appropriate conduct
Gives all students opportunities to ask questions, contribute, and otherwise participate in class activities
Additional Notes
Typical math courses taught with this position would be Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, and College Algebra.
How to Apply
Application Process:
Interested candidates must send a letter of interest, resume, references, and unofficial transcripts to Mr. Martin by June 3rd, 2026. Please mail all documents to the following address:
Mt. Olive CUSD #5
Attn: Josh Martin
804 West Main Street
Mount Olive, IL 62069
Documents may also be scanned and emailed to jmartin@mtoliveschools.org