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Spanish Teacher
Position
Title: Spanish
Teacher
Classification:
Exempt
Department:
Faculty
Reports
To: Specialty
Chair
Date:
March
23, 2020
Summary/Objective:
To
plan, organize and implement an appropriate instructional program in
a learning environment that guides and encourages students to develop
and fulfill their academic and personal potential. The Spanish
teacher works with the class teachers to nurture the class community
of students, parents, and colleagues.
Essential
Functions:
•
Researches
the curriculum and methodologies for the grade level being taught
•
Prepares
appropriate activities to effectively instruct the class
•
Creates
the year’s curriculum and develops lesson plans
•
Prepares
and presents lessons that are inspired by and expressive of Waldorf
pedagogy
•
Engages
students in appropriate intellectual, artistic, practical, and social
activities
•
Works
with the class teacher and other specialty teachers to nurture the
class community of students, parents, and colleagues
•
Maintains
positive relationships with parents and responds to all parent
concerns
•
Maintains
positive, professional relationships with colleagues and responds to
all collegial concerns
•
Schedules
and participates in parent conferences, as necessary
•
Attends
parent evenings when requested by class or EC teacher
•
Supports
teachers and administration by performing functions not directly
related to their teaching
•
Works
with colleagues in faculty and section meetings
•
Works
with parents and volunteers in committee meetings, task forces, and
on projects
•
Meets
with parents at parent-teacher conferences as requested
•
Submits
end-of-year reports
•
Submits
quarterly and semester reports/grades (grades 6 (after midyear), 7, &
8)
•
Writes
student recommendations as needed
•
Reviews
and assesses the effectiveness of work with students, parents, and
colleagues
Part-time
employees work with mentors at least monthly (bi-weekly for their
1st year of teaching their subject)
Engages
in on-going professional and personal growth
Employees
attend and participate in Open Houses, Fall Fest, Auction, May
Faire, all-school work days, and all-school festivals and other
all-school events
Part-time
employees attend and participate in Open Houses, all-school work
days and all-school events as determined by the Specialty
Coordinator
Prepares
substitution plans for main lessons and for on-going classes
Competencies:
assignments
Ability
to meet students' academic, social, and emotional needs
Ability
to manage the class and to provide appropriate discipline
Excellent
human relationship skills with children and adults
Positive,
professional relationships with colleagues
Positive,
professional relationships with parents and volunteers
Clear
and timely communication with parents and colleagues
Excellent
oral and written communication skills
Working
with Anthroposophy to provide a Waldorf education
Supervisory
Responsibilities: N/A
Work
Environment: This
job operates in a professional environment. This role routinely uses
standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers,
filing cabinets and scanners.
Physical
Demands: While
performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required
to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing,
walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and
climbing. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items up to
25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include
close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth
perception and ability to adjust focus.
Position
Type and Expected Hours of Work:
The
academic year is (42 weeks).
The
school work calendar includes two weeks before and one week after
the close of the academic year, and additional times as the school
deems necessary.
Employee's
work of extends beyond the scheduled school days to include open
houses,
work days, festivals, and community events
Part-time
employees will arrive at school 15 minutes before their first class
and may leave when their last class is over
Part-time
employees are expected to attend monthly specialty meetings and at
least 2 faculty/section meetings per year
Employee
will teach the schedule they are assigned.
Employee
will observe a main lesson class for 45 minutes in every grade by
the end of the first semester.
For
part-time employees, the school work calendar includes meetings
during the
work
weeks before and after the school year
Education
and Experience:
Required
Preferred:
.
Preferred:
•
Waldorf
teaching experience
•
Other
teaching experience