Full Time Teaching Positions

All of our positions have been filled for the 2008-09 school year.

Teacher Duties and Responsibilities
Required Skills/Qualifications
Professional Development Opportunities
Compensation

To apply for the 2009-10 school year, send cover letter, resume, three references and
transcript(s) to:

Kathleen D. Curwen
Dean of Faculty
Phillips Exeter Academy
20 Main Street
Exeter, NH 03833-2460
or email
teaching_opportunities@exeter.edu

Teacher Duties and Responsibilities
Teaching: The 200 men and women who make up the teaching faculty teach in small classes and exercise great authority in academic and disciplinary matters. The predominant pedagogical method is discussion oriented—12 students and a teacher around a Harkness table. In this setting, discourse among students and instructor becomes the primary teaching method and means by which students learn. The typical course load is four classes that meet four times per week in 50-minute periods (more with labs or intensive courses). The standard teacher load is 50 students, with an average of 12 students per class. As members of a residential community, Exeter teachers work to realize excellence not only in classroom teaching but also in their dormitory work, their advising of students, their coaching, and their wider involvement as a constructive force in the lives of students.

Dormitory: Ordinarily faculty reside in a dormitory for 10 years. In a dorm, faculty and proctors work together as a team to make the residential experience one in which students can learn from one another. Dormitory duty usually involves one to two weekday nights of regular duty, one or two nights of backup duty (while a student proctor is on duty), and weekend duty every three or four weekends, depending on the number of faculty members working in the dormitory. If not a resident in a dormitory immediately, a new faculty member is affiliated with a dormitory or small house and generally does dorm duty one night a week, plus one weekend per month. Most faculty, whether living in a dormitory or not, are assigned student advisees. As advisers, faculty are the main liaison between parents and the Academy. Professional counselors are available as a resource as well. Read more on dorm life in the Exeter Bulletin.

Coaching: Ordinarily a faculty member coaches either two out of three sports seasons at the club level or one varsity or junior varsity sport. In some instances, other activities are substituted for coaching. Read more about coaching in the Exeter Bulletin.

Committee Work: A faculty member is appointed or elected to committees, standing and ad hoc. Committee work is distributed as evenly as possible among faculty members and according to individual interests, if possible.

Student Activities: A faculty member volunteers or is asked to serve as an adviser to a student activity, again according to interests and workload.

Required Skills/Qualifications
It is expected that all teachers at Phillips Exeter Academy will have a proven mastery of the subject matter for which a teaching position is sought. As such it is expected that teaching faculty will have advanced degrees and teaching experience in their specific discipline.

Professional Development Opportunities
Summer grants for course work and research; PEA summer school and summer sports clinics; possible instructorships in programs of School Year Abroad, Milton Mountain School, and Washington Intern Program; foreign study tours; conference attendance; graduate-course subsidies are available to faculty. Sabbatical Leave Program. A faculty member receives full salary and a stipend each term to cover expenses during a sabbatical. A faculty member is eligible to apply for one term of sabbatical leave for every five years of service.

Compensation
Salaries will be in line with salaries for new teachers with advanced degrees at Phillips Exeter Academy. Teachers are given salary credit for teaching experience.

Long-term Benefits: Academy Tuition Remission, Mortgage Plan, Health Insurance, Dental Plan, Worker’s Compensation, Long-term Disability, Group Life Insurance, Retirement Plan, Phased Retirement, Faculty Housing, Dining Hall Privileges, Children’s Center, Credit Union.

Direct inquiries to:

Kathleen D. Curwen
Dean of Faculty
Phillips Exeter Academy
20 Main Street
Exeter, NH 03833