Job Description:
Science Teacher
Position Title: Science Teacher
Location: Swift Middle School
Position Reports To: Principal of Swift Middle School
Job ID: #2624
Internal Close Date: August 27, 2026
External Close Date: September 10, 2026
Anticipated Start Date: First day of school year is August 24, 2026
Required Certifications & Qualifications
Current State of Connecticut Teaching Certificate: #033 or #034
General Scope of Function
Watertown Public Schools is seeking a motivated and dynamic individual able to effectively teach all fundamental aspects of General Science to middle-school aged students by creating a well-rounded instructional program that promotes curiosity, perseverance, critical thinking and risk-taking.
Key Responsibilities
- Ability to establish positive relationships with students, parents and staff
- Completes daily assignments and all job related responsibilities with care, accuracy and in a timely fashion.
- Creates a student-centered classroom which ensures that every child is achieving and moving towards realizing his/her potential through shared decision-making.
- Cultivates trusting and collaborative relationships with students, parents and colleagues.
- Establishes high behavioral and academic expectations for students to ensure safety and high levels of engagement in the science classroom.
- Addresses behavioral and academic needs with fairness and consistency.
- Fosters an environment where students proactively demonstrate positive social interactions, academic risk-taking and conflict-resolution skills.
- Strong content knowledge in the area of science.
- Uses knowledge of student development, the adopted curriculum/program, the learning progressions of the NGSS and multiple student data sets to drive instructional decisions to address whole group, small group and individual strengths and areas of need.
- Develops engaging and dynamic lesson plans, which includes hands-on learning, experiments and opportunities for inquiry style learning, with multiple student entry points to ensure high levels of engagement and learning for all students.
- Maintains and actively utilizes records of student progress to differentiate instruction and provide actionable feedback to students.
- Uses ongoing self-evaluation and reflection to identify areas for improvement, and takes action to improve professional practice.
Additional Duties
- Attends staff development programs, curriculum development meetings, and other professional activities.
- Performs all other duties that may be assigned by the Building Administrator(s).
Terms of Employment
- 186 days
- Based on the working agreement between the Watertown Board of Education and the Watertown Education Association
All application materials must be submitted online, through Applitrack; should you have any difficulty in submitting your online application please contact (860)945-4813.
- District reserves the right to close the posting if a suitable candidate is found prior to the external closing date.