High School History Teacher

Position Description

Responsibilities

• Teach upper school history courses, employing Socratic seminars, timeline analysis, and narrative storytelling to engage students.
• Connect historical events to God’s redemptive story, emphasizing virtue, justice, and human flourishing.
• Develop lessons with primary documents, debates, and projects that align with SCA’s classical curriculum.
• Evaluate student understanding through essays, presentations, discussions, timelines, and exams.
• Guide students in the rhetoric stage, teaching them to argue persuasively from historical evidence.
• Work with colleagues on interdisciplinary efforts, including senior theses and mock trials.
• Engage in faculty development and school activities to advance our mission.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in History, Humanities, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• Proven teaching experience in upper school history, preferably classical Christian.
• Deep faith in Jesus Christ and alignment with SCA’s Statement of Faith.
• Proficiency in classical methods and the trivium’s rhetoric stage.
• Willingness to obtain ACCS teacher certification.
• Excellent communication and a zeal for historical inquiry.

Preferred Additional Strengths

• Experience with Great Books-integrated history (e.g., incorporating Thucydides, Tacitus, or Founding Fathers).
• Knowledge and experience needed to prepare dual-enrollment history courses.
• Interest in leading history clubs or field trips.

To Apply

• Please submit your cover letter and current résumé to [email protected]
• Complete the SCA teacher application (available at https://summitclassicalacademy.org/team/careers/).

We will review applications on a rolling basis and hope to fill this position as early as spring/summer 2026 for training and curriculum collaboration before the 2026–2027 school year.