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Heritage Language Teacher - Academia Cesar Chavez
Summary
Title: | Heritage Language Teacher - Academia Cesar Chavez |
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ID: | 1490 |
Job Title: | Heritage Language Teacher - Academia Cesar Chavez |
Client: | Academia Cesar Chavez |
Application Deadline: | N/A |
Description
To provide an enriching academic learning environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity, interest, and learning style of ACC students in grades K - 8; develop a linguistically and culturally appropriate educational program and school; work with directors, educational team and other staff to ensure ACC’s mission, values, vision and curriculum objectives are supported, modeled and taught to the students.
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Hold a valid Minnesota Teaching License or able to obtain
- Native Spanish speaking required
- Experience working with culturally and linguistically diverse students preferred
- Excellent communication skills with students, parents and staff
- Proven leadership skills and the ability to build relationships with students, colleagues, and community
Position Duties/Responsibilities:
- Use the state standards and curriculum to create a rigorous, objective-driven Spanish program
- Differentiate for individual students based on their unique learning needs to ensure all students are appropriately engaged and challenged
- Ensure students are engaged through activities and technology that accommodate various learning styles
- Collaborate with classroom teachers to create interdisciplinary units that teacher grade level knowledge and skills through Spanish
- Explicitly introduce learning objectives to activate students’ prior knowledge as it relates to objectives, and conclude the lesson by revisiting the learning objective
- Present content through a variety of instructional strategies to reach all learners
- Provide many and varied opportunities for students to achieve mastery while working to promote achievement by all students without exception
- Develop standards-aligned, measurable, ambitious goals that will increase student opportunities for achievement; assess and track performance against these goals
- Measure student achievement of, and progress toward, the learning objectives and goals with formative and summative assessment tools
- Provide ongoing and timely feedback to students on their progress towards meeting goals by frequently checking for understanding and listening
- Use data to reflect on effectiveness of lessons and student achievement progress in order to improve instruction and personal practice
- Create a focused environment of fairness and respect that encourages student to take risks and strive to reach goals.
- Communicate and enforce high expectations and standards for behavior and academic performance
- Implement classroom procedures, systems, and routines that provide structure for students and maximize instructional time
- Communicate respectfully and thoughtfully with parent/guardians remaining sensitive to different families’ cultures, values, and needs
- Collaborate with colleagues (school wide meetings, professional development days) to continuously improve personal practice, instruction, assessment, and student achievement, as well as the overall goals and mission of the school
- Access meaningful learning experiences (current theory, research, developments in relevant academic disciplines, professional development opportunities, and ideas from colleagues and supervisors)
- Reflect critically upon teaching experience; identify areas for further professional development as part of a professional development plan that is linked to grade level, school, and network goals
- Access meaningful learning experiences; and listen thoughtfully to other viewpoints and respond constructively to suggestion and criticism
- Other duties as assigned
Salary:
Competitive pay based on qualifications and experienceThis opening is closed and is no longer accepting applications