Math Teacher Grades K-6 2026-7 school year

We are hiring a full time grade K-6 math teacher for the coming school year.

About us

Midwest Academy for Gifted Education is a not for profit institution focused on the social, emotional, and academic needs of gifted students in the Chicagoland area for ages corresponding to Junior Kindergarten all the way to 12th grade. We have 64 students this year.

Core details about the position including the school day and what you'd be doing:

• Teacher hours: 8-3:45
• Support arrival and attendance.
• Manage homeroom which will consist of 6-16 students/45 minutes per day.
• The overall school day consists of arrival period, 8 academic periods+lunch and recess, and dismissal.
• During homeroom you will support student social emotional activities and assist with any executive functioning skills .
• Run 5 academic classes per day, but if you do not run homeroom, you will have 6 classes.
• Typically, you receive two 45-minute planning periods per day Monday-Thursday. Fridays are specials.
• Typically, our classes have only 2-8 students in them, 4-6 students mean for ELA.
• All our meetings are over lunch and recess, not before or after school.
• Lunch or recess duties and a 30 minute break
• We level our students into groups of similar abilities, then filter by age for appropriateness.

About our students

• score in the top 2% for IQ or achievement
• have to shadow for 2 weeks with us to vet social and emotional and academic skills/assessments.
• you are a part of the admissions decision.

Requirements

• Master's degree required, can be in the subject area or in Teaching with the endorsement that covers the grade years listed.
• 3 years or more of lead teaching experience preferred. This means you are leading a classroom for the entire school year, not just tutoring students 1:1 or in small groups.
• Understand how to differentiate instruction or be willing to learn.
• Lesson planning and execution to meet and exceed grade level common core standards
• Student assessments, grading work.
• The students do not typically receive homework in elementary grades, but you do have to assign class work-they have study hall periods during the school day that's supervised by our teachers where they can practice for additional fluency and retention, read, write, beyond your 45 minutes of daily instruction.
• At least 60 credit hours in elementary education/high school education, 21 credit hours in early childhood;
• Experience with gifted students strongly preferred;
• Experience teaching accelerated, telescoping, and/or compacted curricula; finding appropriate reading materials for high lexile and or comprehension readers, reading assessment and common interventions,
• Project and child-led learning experience;
• Subject matter expertise as appropriate up through at least 12th grade, ideally some college.
• Additional requirements that need to be fulfilled prior to or on the job include State of Illinois mandatory reporter, CPR certification.

Benefits

• One of the teacher’s children receives a tuition waiver for the duration of employment at the school;
• 10 paid vacation or sick days a year.
• Continuing education possible and we will pay for select PD.Compensation:
• Commensurate with experience. We have a salary ladder.

Other open positions we have open for next year

Our other open positions are part time Mandarin, Japanese, French, and School Counselor /Social worker for lower school. If you apply with other credentials and you are qualified, we may contact you in the future, but those are our only remaining openings.

Regardless of position, You will be responsible for curriculum and delivery of approximately 5 classes with 1-8 students per day with at least one 45-min plan per day and one 30-min break. You will also likely have a homeroom responsibility with 6-16 students or another class in your discipline if we don't need homeroom run.

Some out of school hours are outlined in contract and are mandatory, such as curriculum night, parent teacher conferences, and school benefit dinner etc. We are a small school, so you will have to help rotate in for lunch and recess, go on field trips during school hours.

Time saving summary: You have to interview on zoom or phone and do a demo lesson in person. We do not sponsor from other countries. We do not need additional administrators, so don't float your resume in this way just in case we need people doing something other than teaching. We don't have desk jobs that are not student-facing. Please visit http://www.mage.education/jobs for a detailed description or to apply.

Nondiscrimination Notice: Midwest Academy for Gifted Education does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age or sexual orientation in admission and access to its programs, services, activities, or in any aspect of their operations. Please click here for our full non-discrimination policy.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract

Pay: $54,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year

Benefits

• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Application Question(s)

• Confirm you live in the USA already and are legal to work here.
• How many years of experience have you had in a classroom setting where you are the lead teacher?
• When would you be able to start this position?

Education

• Master's (Required)

License/Certification

• Teaching Certification (Preferred)

Ability to Commute

• Chicago, IL 60610 (Required)

Work Location: In person