IB Spanish B and ab initio

What are we looking for

We are looking for an experienced IB Spanish teacher who also has lived and worked in a residential school. Please note any additional subjects you can teach in your cover letter.

What is the context

Founded in 1982 the United World College-USA is one of 18 United World College (UWC) campuses worldwide and the only campus in the United States. The UWC movement seeks to make education a force to unite people nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. As such UWC-USA values and promotes all manner of inclusion diversity equity and access as part of our fundamental mission to bring people together across differences in service of a more peaceful and sustainable world. Our students are selected through national committees in more than 150 countries and nearly 85% of our students are on scholarship ensuring unparalleled national and socioeconomic diversity in our student body. With expeditionary place-based and experiential learning at the center of our academic program and a strong residential curriculum in our multinational/multicultural boarding environment UWC-USA stretches its students faculty and staff to learn and grow in a multi-perspectival community dedicated to democratic processes as reflective of our country location and traditions.

What do we want our education to prepare young people for

UWCs mission began in response to the international tensions of the Cold War. Its mission to bring young people together before their prejudices are solidified in service of peace and a sustainable future is as important as the world our students know the main obstacles to unity remain differences in identity that too often separate us from one another: nationality culture language religion ethnicity race gender and sexual identity. The main obstacles to peace and sustainability today are not entirely new either but the globalizing forces of our age have reshaped them. No matter where our students come from they increasingly see these challenges up close in local national or international settings:

• Economic political and social inequality between those at the center and those on the margins of societies worldwide;
• Political polarization rooted in ideology grievance and uneven democratic practice/ institutions;
• Climate change ecosystem destruction and biodiversity collapse resulting from destructive modes of production consumption and land use.
• Accelerated technological innovation that alters our relationships to information work and one another.

Beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year the educational program at UWC-USA will seek to prepare students for these four global challenges by taking students out of the classroom to meet with organizations and institutions in northern New Mexico on a biweekly basis. For learning to prepare young people for these challenges of the future we are committed to ensuring that they graduate from UWC-USA with contextualized real-world understandings of the complexities of the challenges ahead.

Who should apply

Qualifications - ideal candidates will demonstrate a combination of the following qualities:

• Strong identification with the vision mission and values of UWC-USA and ability to articulate and translate them in strategic and day to day implementation of programs
• Proven experience as a dynamic innovative student-centered facilitator of learning
• Three of more years of teaching experience at the 15- to 19-year-old level
• Teaching experience in a multicultural setting
• IB Diploma Program knowledge and experience or experience in higher education in the relevant academic field
• Experience in residential school
• Experience living outside your home country
• Knowledge of instructional strategies used in the enhancement of curricular programs ideally including place-based learning and expeditionary learning
• Commitment to learning and modeling constructive engagement of conflict among colleagues and students
• Commitment to learning and modeling personal communal and environmental sustainability
• Ability to use good judgment in establishing priorities and assessing and engaging difficult situations
• Exemplary discretion and confidentiality
• Ability to collaborate with colleagues across the curriculum
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Required Education

• Masters degree in a field related to one of the subject taught

Required License

• Eligible to obtain a NM Drivers License and must be insurable by the schools insurance carrier.

Note: Broadly we are able to support sponsorship for a J-1 visa but this is not guaranteed.

Applications

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the positions are filled. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply promptly for full consideration. Please send the following materials via our application portal:

• Include a cover letter CV two professional references and one former student who can serve as a reference (note: We will not be contacting any references unless you are selected as a semi-finalist and we will notify you before any contact).
• A one to two-page response to each of the following two prompts: 1) What are the opportunities for innovation within the IB What are some examples of where you have delivered your subject-area content in an innovative way In particular please note where you have experience with expeditionary place-based interdisciplinary and/or experiential learning in your pedagogy. 2) Show how you have engaged at least one of the four global challenges in your teaching or if you have not how you would. Show what work your discipline does for the world.

We will keep all inquiries and applications strictly confidential until the semi-finalist phase at which point it may be necessary for us to make limited outreach to references.

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