HS Spanish Teacher (KSA-Jeddah)

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

 Planning and Preparation for Learning:

-Plan lessons and units by following the AISJ curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade level teachers

-Supports in developing curriculum documentation that reflect horizontal and vertical alignment

-Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiated needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars' misconceptions and confusions

-Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning

-Demonstrates transdisciplinary and play-based content knowledge in the areas of language, literacy, math, science, social

studies, social-emotional, and cognitive learning

Classroom Management:

-Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations

-Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and builds strong relationships

-Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year

-Gets all scholars to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy

Delivery of Instruction:

-Promotes scholar-centered learning through highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars

-Promotes inquiry-based and concept-based learning

Professional Responsibilities:

-Designs each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes

-Collaborates with colleagues to plan units, share teaching ideas, and look at scholar work

-Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well

-Supports scholars with understanding of their strengths and opportunities for development, action planning, and setting their goals.

-Promotes agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership

-Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up:

-Frequently checks for understanding, adjusting teaching, re teaching and following-up from the data

-Analyzes and reflects on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs

-Gives scholars a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction

-Has scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance

-Help scholars develop as self-assessors and self-adjusters

Family and Community Outreach:

-Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families' cultures and values

-Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child's ability to reach standards

-Gives parents clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year

-Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates parents on good news  

-Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support learning at home

-Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.

Other Responsibilities:

-Engages with community in after-school activities

-Engages with community in open communication

-Supervision duties will be assigned                                                                                                                               --After School Activity (1/week) and office hours (2/week)