Date
01/21/2025
Position Information
Position desired: Teacher
Subjects you can teach: 7-12 Humanities Teacher, 7-12 Literature Teacher, Greek Teacher, K-6 General Classroom Teacher, Latin-Basic Teacher, Logic Teacher
Willing to relocate to: Anywhere in US
Summary:
I am a second-year public school teacher eager to join the classical Christian movement. Currently teaching at my high school alma mater, I teach sophomore English and debate. I have over 100 students and coach nine speech, debate, and academic events. I have developed and taught material on Shakespeare, Homer, Orwell, and Ovid, often aimed at developing skills in critical thinking and close-reading. I was awarded “Teacher of the Year” by my school’s faculty during the 2023-2024 school year.
My desire to teach at a classical Christian school stems from a set of core convictions. First, I believe education should be all about shaping students into Christ’s image — the embodiment of all perfect virtue. I believe teaching students how to think is incomparably more important than teaching them how to be useful, and more satisfying too, since as Aristotle once said, “To be seeking always after the useful does not become free and exalted souls” (Politics, Book VIII). With Scripture as our guide, I believe the Western intellectual tradition can equip students with a wisdom and eloquence fitting for any path the Lord leads them on.
I graduated from Columbia University in the spring of 2023. While at Columbia, I studied English literature, delighted in the Core Curriculum, and took several classes in the Classics department. My formal study in ancient languages includes five semesters of ancient Greek and two semesters of Classical Latin. In addition, I am soon to complete a Biblical Hebrew Certificate through Reformed Theological Seminary.
I am hoping to work for a school that has a robust culture of Christlike oversight, accountability, relationship, and mentorship. I desire to join a gospel-saturated culture, a community thick with the love of the Lord, where everything is done for the glory of our King.
10503 County Road 162
Boling, Texas 77420 United States
Home Phone:
Cell Phone: (979) 533-0963
Email: chasechumchal@gmail.com
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Highest Level of Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Institutions Attended:
| Institution Name | Degree Earned (i.e., BA in English) | Date Graduated | Emphasis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | BA in English Literature | May 2023 |
Employment History:
| Position | Employer | Dates of Service | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teacher | Boling High School | August 2023 – Current |
Additional Qualifications: Teacher of the Year, 2023-2024
Additional Experience with CCE:
Hobbies, Interests, and Family: I enjoy taking walks, playing tennis, spending time with friends and family (parents, sister). I’m hope to one day become a good cook.
Top 5 Books: Personally influential:
The Brothers Karamazov
Middlemarch
Till We Have Faces
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Confessions
Top 3 Books: – Shattering Your Strongholds: Recommended by pastor.
– I cannot entirely remember order, but here is a list of some recent Shakespeare reading: I did a combined listen/read-through on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labour’s Lost. The former I read for a literary criticism team I coach. The latter I read because it seemed to touch on themes similar to other Shakespeare comedies I enjoy. I also read King Lear this past semester. I was compelled by a description of Cordelia’s sacrificial love. (This was more than three books ago, but I also recently read How to Think Like Shakespeare, which was full of nice vignettes on liberal arts education.)
Most Influential Books: Objectively influential:
– The Bible
– Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
– Selections of Calvin’s Institutes
– Selections from Augustine’s City of God
– Plato’s Republic
Preferred Denomination Type: Reformed, Baptist
Current Church: Grace Community Fellowship
Current Church Denomination: Non-denominational
Current Church Membership: Yes
Current Church Attendance: Weekly
Support of Traditional Marriage: Yes
Theology: Reformed Baptist
Belief in the inerrancy of Scripture?: Yes
Notes on Scripture:
Additional classical training: At Columbia, I went through the Core Curriculum, which journeys through the masterpieces of Western literature, philosophy, art, and music. I took five semesters of Greek and two semester of Latin. I also completed other classes in the Classics department, such as a survey course on the Greek polis and a seminar on healing and medicine in the ancient world. My main academic interests were in my literature courses, where I got to study authors like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, John Donne, George Eliot, and Henry James.
Why I want to teach at a classical school: The dominating view of education in the Western intellectual tradition is that education ought to be first and foremost about cultivating virtue. I want to teach at a classical Christian school because it takes this view and perfects it by aiming for faith in the Lord and conformity to Christ’s image by His Spirit. Only a truly Christian school recognizes that, in the words of Clement of Alexandria, “our Educator is the holy God, Jesus, the Word guiding all mankind.” Moreover, a classical Christian school prioritizes fundamental academic enterprises: the formation of wisdom, eloquence, historical consciousness, aesthetic taste, logical reasoning, and language acquisition. With Christ at the center, I believe the church is blessed by this model, and that the future of America will be highly benefited by the movement’s growth.
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