Inspire and challenge.
At Belmont Day School, we foster intellectual curiosity, honor differences, and empower meaningful contribution with excellence, respect, honesty, responsibility, caring, and joy.
Grade Five Teacher, Specializing in Humanities
We seek an innovative and responsive upper-elementary educator to serve as one of two fifth grade homeroom teachers beginning at the end of August 2026. A qualified candidate will possess strong enthusiasm, deep knowledge of, and familiarity with fifth grade students. This is a full-time, exempt, and benefit-eligible position. It is a ten-month position and reports to the lower school head. This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored relocation.
Responsibilities
- Create a rich, engaging, stimulating humanities program for fifth graders.
- Have both the developmental and pedagogical background to embrace this age group.
- Serve as a homeroom teacher, help to lead community meetings, and engage with students routinely by providing coverage at lunch, recess, and dismissal, or as needed.
- Collaborate with all members of the fifth grade team and all school faculty to design curriculum, particularly in humanities, and support co-curricular programming and the development of students beyond the classroom.
- Differentiate instruction and create a responsive curriculum that meets the individual needs of all students and supports foundational skills.
- Create an inclusive learning community that integrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice pedagogy into upper-elementary teaching and fosters authentic parent engagement.
- Utilize anecdotal, informal, and formal benchmark assessments to assess and monitor growth and use data to inform comprehensive student reports.
- Provide regular, constructive feedback to students and parents.
