What are the responsibilities and job description for the Spanish Teacher position at The Hire Group?
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE: The Spanish Teacher will educate students in grades 9-12 on Spanish basics. This teacher is also responsible for fostering the habits and behavior that support the school’s value system of high expectations. The school primarily serves at-risk students from low-income backgrounds in an urban setting. The student body contains roughly 350 students.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
• Maintain and enrich their expertise in Spanish language and culture
• Develop lesson plans that ensure the attainment of state learning standards and the additional specific grade-by-grade learning standards
• Coordinate lesson plans with other teachers to maximize possibilities for teaching similar topics in the same general time frame, thus reinforcing student knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis
• Provide direct and indirect instruction
• Long and short-term planning addressing individual needs of students
• Prepare students adequately for all required assessments
• Evaluate students' progress
• Prepare monthly individual student achievement reports for parents
• Provide an inviting, exciting, innovative, learning environment
• Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management
• Serve as an advisor to all students, including organizing advisory groups, overseeing the academic and behavioral progress
Qualifications
• Demonstrated expertise in Spanish, as evidenced by personal skills and knowledge
- An undergraduate major or minor or graduate degree in Spanish, or direct subject-area teaching experience
• Demonstrated ability and experience to engage the interest of high school-age children
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse children, including those with special needs
• Teaching experience in a public or private school, preferably in an urban setting
• Demonstrated ability to work well with parents
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate tests and measurements. of achievement
• Demonstrated willingness to be held accountable for student results
• Preferred 9-12 Certification
• Can – do attitude. Driven to not accept failure as an option
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.