Teaching Faculty

Teaching Faculty Positions

Every summer Phillips Academy invites a number of visiting teachers to teach, coach and house counsel in its summer program. A Summer Session teacher's experience is rigorous and thoroughly challenging, for Phillips Academy requires superior classroom performance of its teachers, TAs, and students alike. The Summer Session is short, intensive, and strongly academic.

Typically, teachers are hired to teach a major course (meets for 2 hours Monday through Saturday), a minor course (meets for 1-1/4 hours Monday through Friday), an afternoon activity (meets for 60 minutes 4 days a week), and to be involved in the residential program.   Although a few exceptions are made to this policy, unusual circumstances may determine that an applicant's situation should be handled on an individual basis.  Teachers are also expected to chaperone one on-campus social event and one off-campus trip during the summer.  

Qualifications

The Summer Session hires a wide range of teachers from both public and private schools.  Teaching applicants must have at least three years of teaching experience or at least one year of teaching in a boarding high school, and they must be interested in engaging students in all aspects of a residential school setting.

Dates

New teachers are expected to arrive on campus on Friday, June 25th, 2010 for new faculty orientation.  Returning teachers arrive on Saturday, June 26th.  For the 2010 Summer Session, students will arrive on campus on Tuesday, June 29th and depart on Wednesday, August 4th.  Faculty remain on campus until all reports and grades are submitted, but no later than Friday, August 6th.

Application Procedures

Before completing the application, please familiarize yourself with Summer Session's current catalog on our website:  www.andover.edu/summersession.  Applications are considered on a rolling basis and candiates are chosen until staffing is complete.  While there is no specific deadline, completed applications recieved by January 29th will be considered first.  Please note that all application materials must be received before an application is considered.  These materials include:

  • A complete and accurate application (includes Application form, Course Preference form, House Counseling form, an Afternoon Activities form and a Massachusetts Conditions of Employment form).
  • A resume.
  • Two letters of reference.  One must be from the applicant's immediate academic or work supervisor.
  • An official undergraduate transcript.
  • An NCPS Authorization for Release of Information form.
  • Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) and Sexual Offender Record Information (SORI) release forms.

All forms required for an application are available on this site in a packet.  In order to download these forms your computer must have a recent version of Acrobat Reader installed.  This is free shareware and can be downloaded from the Adobe web site.

Right click on the following link and save the file to your desktop.  Most of the forms may be filled in on your computer.  When all forms are complete, please submit them to the following address:
Phillips Academy Summer Session
Ms. Jolene Croteau
180 Main Street
Andover MA 01810

Phillips Academy Summer Session Faculty Application Forms

Interviews and Hiring

After completed applications have been read, a number of applicants will be contacted for an interview.  Invitations will be extended by telephone or e-mail to you at your home or school. We will attempt to set a mutually acceptable date for the interview.  Typically, these interviews begin in January and continue throughout the early spring.  When deciding to accept an offer of a position, applicants should be mindful of the limitations on one's personal life that living and working in a residential setting with students entails.

The Summer Session, in accordance with Phillips Academy's policy, does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, disability status, sexual orientation or national or ethnic origin in administration of its education policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs and athletic or other school-administered programs.

For additional information please contact Jolene Croteau at jcroteau@andover.edu or 978-749-4406.