Duties

Position Summary

A HS Science 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 and lab environment that promotes student achievement and collaboration with families and colleagues, while emphasizing real world applications within business and/or technology classes. 

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
  

Salary/Benefits

Compensation:

• Annual Salary: Starting at $41,200 per the Mount Olive Education Association Contract (2024-2027). All years of service acknowledged.  Board paid TRS. 
• Contract Information can be found here ? 2024-2027 Contract (2).pdf

How to Apply

Application Process:
Interested candidates must send a letter of interest, resume, references, and unofficial transcripts to Mr. Martin by July 15, 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

Email Address

jmartin@mtoliveschools.org

School District

Mt. Olive High School

Position Website

https://www.mtoliveschools.org

City Website

https://www.mtoliveschools.org

ILearn Link

ILearn

Report Card Link

District Report Card

Application Deadline

7/17/2026

Email for More Information

jmartin@mtoliveschools.org