Thank you for your interest in Veritas Academy. Please take a moment to look over the application for employment and Teacher Questionnaire. To apply for employment at Veritas, you may print the application, fill it out, and mail it to:
Veritas Academy
2101 East 50th Street
Texarkana, AR 71854
You may contact the school office at 870-772-0646 for more information.
Veritas Academy does not discriminate on the basis of color, race, national or ethnic origin, gender, or disability. Teachers and staff at Veritas Academy are expected to display the following characteristics:
A. Spiritual Leadership: The teacher is expected to consistently exhibit love, joy, peace, and spiritual maturity before his students and the rest of the school. The teacher is expected to be a student and lover of the Bible, God?s only written Word. He is to use the school?s curriculum guide and the Bible in constructing his daily Bible classes. Active, joyful participation in any staff prayer meetings and school assemblies is expected.
B. Classroom Management/Environment: The teacher is expected to maintain a neat, organized, clean, and stimulating classroom environment for his students. This implies that the students will take an active part in cleaning and maintaining their room?s appearance. The teacher should set up simple, manageable class routines to accomplish basic tasks, e.g. taking attendance, homework collection, daily cleaning schedules, materials storage and distribution, etc.
C. Classroom Decorum and Discipline: The teacher should be very familiar with and able to apply the spirit, as well as the letter, of the school rules. An orderly (not necessarily silent) working atmosphere is to be the norm. Students should be aware of the class and school rules and be encouraged to exercise self-discipline. When administrative discipline is necessary, the teacher is expected to accompany the student to the office and give the principal an accurate accounting of the student?s offense. The teacher is expected to diffuse and deal with the vast majority of corrective discipline situations within his classroom.
D. Lesson Preparation and Presentation: The teacher should have a thorough knowledge of and interest in the subjects he is assigned to teach. These will normally include Bible, reading, literature, poetry, mathematics, science, grammar, composition, spelling, handwriting, history, and geography. Also, in most elementary grades a working knowledge and interest in Latin, art, music, and physical education is necessary, though these are often taught by other specially trained teachers. All subjects should be taught utilizing the objectives, materials, priorities, and methods prescribed in the Veritas Academy Elementary Curriculum Guide. The teacher is expected to encourage the students to see how all subjects are interrelated, as parts of God?s integrated universe. Clear language and appropriate vocabulary is also expected. A variety of teaching methods are to be used, with special emphasis to the use of the following:
1. Comprehension checks
2. Rephrasing of concepts by students
3. Inductive questioning
4. Recitations, chants, songs, acronyms, summaries, and reviews
5. Illustrations, applications, demonstration
E. Student Learning: The teacher should seek to stimulate and maintain the students? interest in the material. Recognition and reasonable compensation for individual needs is also necessary. A variety of techniques (in addition to testing) should be used to measure the students? progress (see the Lost Tools Chart). The elementary school curriculum guide is to be used as the basis for measuring the overall progress of the class and individual students.
F. Planning and Communications: The teacher?s weekly and quarterly plans should reflect creativity and a good use of class time. Copies of the weekly lesson plans are to be turned in each Friday to the principal. The Curriculum Guide should be used to establish weekly, quarterly, and semester plans. The teacher is to regularly (at least twice each month) communicate with the parents in his class. Emphasis should be placed on getting to know the families well, as well as letting them know what is happening in the class. The parents should feel welcome to visit and assist in the classroom.
G. Professionalism: The teacher is to consistently and joyfully demonstrate pride in Veritas Academy by his work, punctuality, speech, attitude, dress, and attention to duties.
