The HudsonWay Immersion School New York Campus, a K-8 Mandarin and Spanish Immersion school, is seeking a Head Spanish Immersion Teacher.
We are searching for a qualified and compassionate teacher with an understanding and commitment to the vision of the language immersion model to join our talented team at our New York location. S/He must possess an excellent command of the language of instruction (Spanish) to model, instruct, and promote the students' social, emotional, and academic growth.
Responsibilities:
- Plans and instructs assigned classes to meet students' needs.
- Utilizes a variety of instructional strategies, innovating techniques that enhance the immersion model and incorporates social-emotional learning strategies in the classroom.
- Collaborates daily with colleagues to plan units of study and discuss student development.
- Guides the learning process toward achieving curriculum goals.
- Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students.
- Encourages students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior.
- Builds classroom community by partnering with families to facilitate children's academic success and personal development.
- Assesses students' accomplishments, including linguistic benchmarks in the target language, and provides progress reports as required.
- Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities.
Other responsibilities:
- Maintains accurate and correct records as required by law, school policy, and administrative regulations.
- Assists the administration in implementing all policies and rules governing student life and conducts them in the classroom.
- Strives to maintain and improve professional competence.
- Attends professional development, curriculum development sessions, and staff meetings and serves on committees as required.
Qualifications:
- Native speaker of Spanish
- At least three years of teaching experience in elementary preferred
- Degree in early childhood or elementary education
- Dedication to learning and growing as an educator
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- High level of personal organization, planning, and classroom management skills
- Vigorous technology usage preferred
- Intermediate English Proficiency
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $55,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
School subjects:
School type:
Language:
- Spanish (Required)
- English (Required)
Work Location: In person