Teacher - Math, Grades 9-12; SEI Endorsement ; SY

Teacher – Math Grades 9-12 (SEI Endorsement Required) (SY26-27)

Watertown Public Schools – Watertown High School – Watertown, Massachusetts

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Job : 5573738
Final date to receive applications: Mar 27, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Posted: Mar 06, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)
Starting Date: Immediately

Position: Math Teacher
Position Type: Full-time
Department: Secondary;
Mathematics
Location: Watertown High School
Reports to: Principal, Math/Science Coordinator
Affiliation: WEA Unit A
Salary range: As determined by WEA Salary Schedule, Unit A

General Description:
Watertown Public Schools seeks an exceptional Math
Teacher with an SEI endorsement who is highly qualified and knowledgeable to join our community of teachers, learners, and leaders. This is an exciting opportunity for teachers who desire to serve where their efforts matter.

• Demonstrates mastery of related subject matter, instructional skills, and resource materials for the course(s) taught.
• Utilizes lesson plans and units of instruction, aligned with current state and district standards, which drive instruction through formative assessment and differentiation.
• Maintains a safe, organized classroom, which supports students’ independent learning, collaboration, and choice.
• Utilizes a variety of effective instructional and management techniques.
• Provides a variety of assessments and uses assessments for planning and instruction.
• Provides consistent, immediate feedback to student learning and asks analytical questions that elicit students’ responses that incorporate prior knowledge, life experience, and interests that are directly related to the content objective.
• Monitors and maintains a positive classroom environment that supports the school-wide behavior expectation in which most students are engaged, incorporates mutual respect, and provides cooperative learning opportunities.
• Uses available technology/instructional media to enhance the students’ learning experiences.
• Establishes and maintains appropriate relationships with students, parents, staff, and community members by communicating in a tactful, courteous, and confidential manner.
• Appropriately communicates and interacts with other professional staff in academic planning and school committee work.
• Attends and participates in staff meetings and school-related activities and committees.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuous professional growth and works with the administrator to formulate and complete professional growth plans.

Curriculum, Planning, and Assessment (Subject Matter Knowledge, Well-Structured Lessons, Curriculum and Planning Indicator, Child and Adolescent Development)

• Demonstrates mastery of and enthusiasm for the content area and the pedagogy it requires.
• Can convey a grasp of child development and how students learn.
• Designs effective and rigorous standards-based units of instruction consisting of well-structured lessons with measurable outcomes.

Teaching All Students (Meeting Diverse Needs, Student Engagement, Safe Learning Environment)

• Uses instructional practices that are likely to challenge, motivate, and engage all students and facilitate equitable, active student participation.
• Builds a productive learning environment where every student participates and is valued as part of the class community.
• Cultural Proficiency.
• Actively creates and maintains an environment in which students’ diverse backgrounds, identities, strengths, and challenges are respected.

Family and Community Engagement (Parent/Family Engagement)

• Engages with families and builds collaborative, respectful relationships with them in service of student learning.
• Professional Reflection & Collaboration.

Professional Culture (Reflective Practice, Professional Collaboration)

• Regularly reflects on practice, seeks and responds to feedback, and demonstrates self-awareness and commitment to continuous learning and development.
• Seeks to participate in and contribute to a collaborative adult learning community.

• Hold a Massachusetts Teaching License in Mathematics at the appropriate grade level and either an…