Job Title: Spanish Teacher - Eastpointe High School
Position Description: Spanish Teacher
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's 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 Bachelor's Degree in Spanish and a desire to enroll in the Concordia/Eastpointe 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 school’s 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 foreign 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
Selection Committee
Evaluated By: Supervising Administrator
Salary Data: As per Negotiated Agreement with the EFE
More Information about Eastpointe Community Schools: www.eastpointeschools.org
Interested candidates should apply through TalentEd: https://eastpointeschools.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx |