Milton Hershey School (MHS) is a tuition-free, home, and private school for over 2,000 Pre-K through 12th-grade students. Founded in 1909 by Milton and Catherine Hershey, the lives of more than 11,000 students have been positively transformed through MHS’s high-quality career-focused education, nurturing home life, and extensive extra-curricular opportunities.
MHS is hiring highly qualified, dynamic Middle School Physical Education Teachers to begin in the 23/24 school year. MHS’s Middle School serves over 600 lower-income students enrolled in 5th through 8th grade. MHS strives to provide small class sizes (average of 1/15 – 18) and well-resourced classrooms fitness, and wellness resources. The Healthy Lifestyles Teachers educate and engage MHS students in learning about and choosing lifelong positive decisions regarding their safety, health, and wellness. The concepts and skills are to align with Pennsylvania state standards. This position will be responsible for instructing courses including Physical Education, Fitness classes and Health & Nutrition to 5th – 8th-grade students.
MHS Teachers plan, prepare, and deliver lessons that are engaging, meaningful and rigorous. Additionally, they create and analyze formative and summative assessments to differentiate instruction, design programming, and accommodate individual student and whole group needs. This position entails data utilization including the ability to analyze, interpret and apply the information to drive achievement. Additionally, this position requires a deep commitment to remediating students to perform well on their grade level assignments.
Teachers collaborate extensively with fellow faculty and other MHS staff to ensure a whole-child approach is taken to student development. In addition to the core academic curriculum, teachers are responsible for supporting School initiatives such as social & emotional learning and wellness.