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Applying for Position:
K-4 Lead Spanish and Spanish Support Teacher

This opening calls for specific teaching qualifications set by the school.

CalWest's client school in the Greater Marin area seeks a K-4 Lead Spanish and Spanish Support Teacher to begin in August 2024.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited institution
  • Relevant teaching experience
  • Knowledge of and experience with relevant technology
  • Proven cultural competence in a community committed to diversity, equity, and social Justice.

Responsibilities

  • Challenge all students with high academic and behavioral expectations while maintaining a climate of responsibility, safety, kindness, enthusiasm, and fun.
  • Model personal standards of excellence: warmth, clarity of expectations, consistency, and accountability.
  • Demonstrate equitable and culturally responsive teaching practices.
  • Apply a wide range of highly effective approaches to teaching, balancing enduring and innovative best practices.
  • Engage in ongoing professional development.
  • Form supportive and responsive relationships with students and families.
  • Differentiate instruction to challenge every learner.
  • Build a strong, positive classroom community in which students advocate for themselves and others.
  • Provide constructive, timely, specific feedback that fosters a growth mindset.
  • Use available technology to enhance student learning, faculty collaboration, and responsive communication.
  • Collaborate with the wider community to enhance the students’ experience, including specialists in technology, information literacy, drama, art, music, P.E., world language,
  • Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and counseling, global education, sustainability, service-learning, and diversity.
  • Observe, evaluate, encourage, and monitor students’ academic and social development and progress.
  • Communicate regularly with students, parents, and colleagues regarding students’ progress and needs.


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Candidates may be submitted to multiple positions during their time with CalWest. Also, candidates may not be chosen to move forward in the search they initially expressed interest in pursuing.

Our client schools make the final decisions.

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