Up North Progressive

Sometimes schools at the last minute find themselves in hiring situations when teachers and school staff find another job at another school. The job gets posted on the school’s website, and also school job websites like K12 Jobspot or REAP. But for-profit charter school Bay City Academy seems to think Facebook is a perfectly good place to post a job, especially a crucial teaching position like first grade.

Early elementary teaching jobs can be difficult to fill, especially when literally a day away from schools opening for the fall. That new first grade teacher will also have the responsibility to teach students using Steve Ingersoll’s Integrated Visual Learning as curriculum, something he or she has no training in because in college prep courses they’re trained in actual pedagogy and curriculum that works. Like the rest of the BCA staff, it will be up to that new first grade teacher to figure out quickly it’s on them to provide real standards-based curriculum, especially as those kids progress to third grade, the first year they take state standardized tests that teachers are assessed on how effective they are in the classroom. Good Luck!