Business Teacher
Murdock Middle School – Winchendon, Massachusetts
Job ID: 5682409
Position Type: Full-Time
Salary Range: $55,730 - $100,313
Starting Date: Aug 25, 2026
Qualifications
- Candidates should be licensed in Business, preferred, but will consider History or Math License
- Bachelor's Degree or Master’s in Business, History or Math
Responsibilities
- Implement, refine, modify, instruction-based district curriculum and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Frameworks.
- Remain fully committed to continuously learning, improving, reflecting, and working together with administrators and colleagues to ensure that all students achieve at high levels.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the subject matter and the pedagogy it requires by engaging students in learning experiences that enable them to acquire knowledge and skills in the subject.
- Demonstrate knowledge of developmental levels of students and the different ways students learn by providing differentiated learning experiences to enable all students to progress toward meeting intended outcomes.
- Ability to develop well-structured lessons with challenging, measurable objectives and appropriate student engagement strategies, pacing, sequence, activities, materials, resources, technologies and grouping.
- Design units of instruction with measurable outcomes and challenging tasks requiring higher-order thinking skills that enable students to learn the knowledge and skills defined in state/local standards.
- Consistently define high expectations for the quality of student work and the perseverance and effort required to produce it.
- Use rituals, routines, and appropriate responses that create and maintain a safe physical and intellectual environment where students take academic risks and most behaviors that interfere with learning are prevented.
- Use strategies and practices that are likely to enable students to demonstrate respect for and affirm their own and others’ differences related to background, identity, language, strengths, and challenges.
- Use strategies to support every family to participate actively and appropriately in the classroom and school community.
- Show understanding of and sensitivity to different families’ home language, culture, and values.
- Reflect on the effectiveness of lessons, units, and interactions with students, both individually and with colleagues and use insights gained to improve practice and student learning.
- Seek out and apply ideas for improving practice from supervisors, colleagues, professional development activities, and other resources to gain expertise and/or assume different instruction and leadership responsibilities.
- Effectively collaborate with colleagues in such work as developing standards-based units, examining student work, analyzing student performance and planning appropriate intervention.
- Demonstrate sound judgment reflecting integrity, honesty, fairness, and trustworthiness and protect student confidentiality appropriately.
- Maintain accurate, complete and correct records as required by law, district policy and administrative regulations.
- Responsible for instructional and general duties as assigned by the Principal, Assistant Superintendent or Superintendent of Schools.
Job Requirements
- Citizenship, residency or work visa required
Contact Information
Dr. Nate Mayo, Principal
Phone: 978-297-1256
Email: nmayo@winchendonk12.org
Murdock Middle School
Winchendon Public Schools offers all programs, activities and employment opportunities without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.