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Spanish Teacher

Employer
Woodlands School Inc
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Salary
42k-65k

Job Details

Spanish World Language Teacher Positions (K4-8th) -Multiple Positions

(Bluemound and State Street campuses)

Woodlands is seeking an innovative, collaborative and self-directed individual for the position of Spanish World Language Teacher Position for our organization.  The successful candidate must be able to develop an interest in students in a world language to enable them to understand and appreciate other cultures and ultimately acquire proficiency in a new language.  The candidate must provide a standards-based world language learning environment designed to develop a level of language proficiency through an extended period of study.  Woodlands uses the FLES (Foreign Languages in Elementary Schools) Model for the world languages  The expectation is that the candidate collaborates with classroom and content teachers to bring an integrated language experience to students.  The ideal candidate will engage students in the process of learning a new language in which students will come to better understand their home language, cultural identity, and role in the world.

Wisconsin’s View of World Language:

More than 350 languages are spoken in homes, schools, workplaces, and community spaces across the United States (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017). These languages are not foreign. They represent indigenous, colonial, immigrant, migrant, and home languages of our nation and of the world. Wisconsin schools offer language programs in modern and classical languages. World languages may be spoken, written, and signed. Languages embody identities and cultures, and diverse ways of knowing and interpreting our world. Learning a new language, or reawakening and preserving indigenous languages, allows students to access more information, ideas, perspectives, and opportunities. World language learners use language for intercultural communication within our linguistically and culturally diverse communities. (Wisconsin’s Standards for World Language, 2019)

Woodlands School, Inc. offers an innovative educational program of excellence for the whole child in a diverse environment that prepares the child for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world. The Woodlands Way is a character-based education approach that helps students recognize and develop positive values.  Started in 1936, Woodlands School is a public charter school through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  With two campuses, Bluemound and State Street, Woodlands utilizes a multi-age classroom model that incorporates SEL and character education into daily instruction.  Content area instruction is standards aligned, rigorous, and provides opportunities for project based learning and real world connections. 

 

Position Expectations:

Prepare students to use the language of instruction (target language) to communicate; 

Engage students in disciplinary content learning; 

Design lessons that have students investigate and interact within and across cultures; 

Facilitate student participate in diverse contexts and communities

Engage students in comparing languages and cultures;

Help students develop skills for local and global community engagement; 

Provide students access to the benefits of multilingualism for college, careers, and personal enrichment

 

Candidate Expectations: 

Follow and create curriculum that incorporates language and cultural studies 

Use innovative approaches to World Language instruction (speaking, reading, listening, writing)

Be familiar with the nuances of the three modes of communication (interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational) reflected in national and state world language standards. 

Incorporate the use of realia, visuals, role-play and song to develop student speaking and listening skills in Spanish

Incorporate song, dance, theater, and storytelling into lessons

Partner with community-based organizations to enrich the curriculum

Collaborate with classroom and content teachers to bring an integrated language experience to students

Continued acquisition of  professional knowledge and learn of current developments in the educational field by attending seminars, workshops or professional meetings, or by conducting research

 

Minimum Requirements: 

Current Wisconsin teaching certification

Fluent in Spanish (reading, writing and speaking)

A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university 

Wisconsin teaching license 

Licensure: Spanish (1365)

Completion of a state-approved educator preparation program 

Satisfactory Background Check 

 

Preferred Requirements:

Experience in teaching Spanish language and culture to students

 

Reports to: School Principal 

Physical Demands: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required: 

To talk or hear. 

The employee is frequently required to stand. 

The employee is occasionally required to sit; walk; use hands/fingers to handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds 

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. 

 

Company

Woodlands School, founded in 1936, has been a public charter school through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 2003. It currently enrolls more than 600 students in grades K4 through eighth grade at two campus sites in a multi-aged learning environment, Bluemound and State Street. It is known for achieving academic excellence within a safe and nurturing environment. The curriculum centers around “The Woodlands Way” which is a character-based education approach that helps a diverse population of students recognize and develop strong and positive values. It is based on the idea that strong character education creates happy, sensitive, creative children who grow into adults who are morally and socially responsible.

Company info
Telephone
414-937-2000
Location
3121 W State St
Milwaukee
WI
53208
US

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