Spanish Teacher

Longleaf School of the Arts

Certified - Spanish Teacher

Spanish Teacher Job Description:

Longleaf School of the Arts is a North Carolina public charter high school. We are a college preparatory school with a focus on the fine arts. Our mission:

Longleaf School of the Arts will develop students into confident, responsible, and successful contributors in college, career, and community through mentorship and a challenging curriculum that integrates academics and the fine arts.

Job Summary:

Teacher must be fluent in Spanish and is able to teach courses in Spanish. The teacher will be required to deliver instruction in literature and cross-cultural studies. The candidate must demonstrate a high proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking for the designated language. The position also requires the teacher to create an environment of immersion for students to learn effectively. The world language teacher will be required to teach several levels concurrently, from beginning speakers of the language taught to students who are approaching fluency. Instruction in world languages includes vocabulary, grammar, and accent as well as spelling and other mechanics of language.

Job Description:

• Develop and implement lesson plans that fulfill the requirements of the schools academic learning objectives and curriculum program.
• Plan and use appropriate instructional and learning strategies, activities, and materials that reflect understanding of the needs of students.
• Utilize Bloom's Taxonomy and gradual release to structure student activities and assignments and ensure instructional practice is current with "best practices" learning theory research.
• Ensure instructional practice and curriculum foster critical inquiry, analysis and evaluation.
• Construct and/or use courses, units, and lessons that integrate knowledge.
• Prepare lessons that reflect differentiation in student learning styles and abilities.
• Utilize diagnostic feedback from assessment tools to modify unit and lesson plans.
• Foster a classroom environment conducive to learning and appropriate for physical and social development of students.
• Create opportunities for students to assume responsibility for and be actively engaged in their learning.
• Conduct and maintain ongoing assessments of student achievement and behavior, both formative and summative, using appropriate assessment instruments and methods.
• Use technology to strengthen the teaching/learning process.
• Keep unit and lesson plans informative and electronically maintained and updated in a timely fashion.
• Classroom Management

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters degree
• NC Teacher License in Spanish
• Experience preferred