French Teacher - AHS

Job Title: French Teacher

Contract Length: 191-day contract

FLSA Status: Exempt

Job Summary

The High School French Teacher is responsible for delivering engaging, rigorous instruction in French language and culture to students in grades 9–12. The teacher implements lesson plans that promote proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing, while fostering an appreciation for Francophone cultures. This role requires creating a supportive and inclusive classroom environment, assessing student progress, and using data to inform instruction. The French Teacher collaborates with colleagues, parents, and administrators to support student achievement and contribute to the overall success of the school's language program.

Essential Duties

• Teaches skills and knowledge in foreign language instruction utilizing the division/state curriculum.
• Instructs students in citizenship and basic subject matter specified in state law and administrative regulations.
• Develops lesson plans and supplementary materials that are compatible with the basic division's instructional philosophy and congruent with course/SOL standards.
• Adapts the curriculum to provide individual, small-group, or remedial instruction to meet the needs of the individual student and identified subgroups of students.
• Develops the pupil's understanding and appreciation of the culture of countries where the studied language is spoken.
• Evaluates each student's performance in meeting the course standards in comprehension, speaking, reading, and
• writing the world language.
• Evaluates academic and social growth of students, prepares report cards, and keeps appropriate records to include attendance reports, checklists, census forms, and other recordkeeping activities as necessary.
• Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior needed to provide an orderly, productive classroom environment.
• Identifies student needs and cooperates with other professional staff members to assess and help students solve learning, health, and attitude problems.
• Communicates with parents and school counselors on student progress.
• Supervises students in assigned out-of-classroom activities during the assigned working day.
• Participates in faculty committees and sponsors student activities.
• Administers testing in accordance with division testing practices.
• Models nondiscriminatory practices in all activities.

Job Specifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required)

• Must possess a Bachelor’s or Master's in education or a related field.
• Must possess or be eligible for a Virginia Collegiate Professional License or Postgraduate Professional License with appropriate endorsement to teach Foreign Language/French.
• Must possess the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, parents, and the public.

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in regular classrooms, outdoors, and on thephonee; physical agility to lift to 25 pounds; and to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach overhead.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Duties are usually performed in a school/classroom environment. Duties may be occasionally performed on field trips away from school. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Clearance

Criminal Justice Background cCheck Fingerprinting, TB Assessment

Supervision Exercised: May include instructional assistants, volunteers, and tutors.

Supervision Received: Principal

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The applicant will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the Principal or appropriate administrator. Accomack County Public Schools reserves the right to update, revise, or change this job description and related duties at any time.

The Accomack County School System does not discriminate based on age, sex, handicap, race, religion, color, or national origin in its employment practices.

"We are an equal opportunity employer."