Job Title: High School Spanish Teacher
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Education or related field
- Michigan Teacher Certification - highly qualified in subject area for level
- FA-FS Endorsement
- 3-5 Years successful teaching experience
- Consideration may be made for a non-certified applicant with a Bachelors Degree in Spanish and a desire to enroll in the NMU Residency Program.
Essential Performance Responsibilities:
- To implement and deliver an appropriately broad balanced relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.
- To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students.
- To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
- To contribute to raising standards of student attainment.
- To share and support the schools responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
- Be a role model for students inspiring them to be actively interested in Spanish and other world languages
- Ability to plan specially designed instruction for students with disabilities
- Other duties as assigned.
Our turnaround teacher will skillfully demonstrate:
- The effective/efficient deployment of classroom support.
- Maintaining discipline in accordance with the school procedures and to encourage good practice with regard to punctuality behavior standards of work and homework.
- Promoting Spanish throughout activities.
- Strong desire and ability to achieve outstanding student achievement results in a short amount of time
- Ability to build meaningful caring relationships with students in order to exert academic press and influence.
- Willingness to leverage the student support network to ensure that students social emotional nutritional and health needs are addressed
- Ability to motivate students and influence their behaviors
- Aptitude to discuss subject specific content instruction and the drive to try out new ideas to improve student learning
- Capacity to align curriculum instruction and assessments while responding to the individual needs of students
- Competence to collect and analyze data to inform instructional decisions
- Design and utilization of formative assessments to modify and adjust instruction on a daily basis in collaboration with classroom and grade level teachers
- Development of organized routines communicate clear expectations and grow a positive school culture
- Building a professional environment that is one of mutual respect teamwork and accountability
- Ability to seek out knowledgeable peers coaches or administrators for instructional support in the never ending quest to deliver the vision of high quality subject-specific instruction to increase achievement of highest risk students
A turnaround teacher has the confidence to lead and possesses the following competencies:
- Prioritize student-learning needs over the customs routines and established relationships that can stand in the way of necessary change
- Achieve results by taking initiative and reflecting and acting on lessons learned
- Maintain his/her drive for results by demonstrating persistence directness and the ability to monitor and plan ahead for increased student growth and efficient instruction for at risk students
- Commit to the relentless pursuit of increasing student learning for at risk students
- Skillfully challenge the status quo by thinking analytically and conceptually as well as problem-solving as it pertains to at risk students
- To continue personal development in the relevant areas including subject knowledge and teaching methods
Evaluated By: Principal
Salary Data: per EFE Contract. Tentative agreement on a new salary schedule has been agreed to with the teacher association for 2025-26. 15 step schedule. Bachelors lane: $49350 - $80483. Masters lane: $53500 - $85200 plus $3000 additional on each step for MA30 or beyond.
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