High School Spanish Teacher (2024-2025)

ABOUT ACHIEVERS:

Achievers Early College Prep Charter School (AECP) is New Jersey's first public charter school for students in middle school and high school that provides them with the unique opportunity to pursue one of four STEAM pathways (Health Sciences, Digital Media, Audio Engineering and Cisco Computer Networking). Students can have access to a program that allows them to earn up to 60 college credits, NOCTI credentials and workplace training. AECP is determined to ensure that students can enhance their journey through high school and graduate with content mastery, skills, and experiences that are essential to the current marketplace and the world beyond.

ACHIEVERS FIT:

• Demonstrates alignment and commitment to Achievers Early College Prep's mission, core beliefs, and educational philosophy

• Adaptable in a growing environment; Is flexible and solutions-oriented

• Evidence of self-motivation, taking initiatives, and willingness to be a team player

• Experience in schools that rely heavily on intervention, literacy, and content knowledge as a means to dramatically increase student achievement

• Driven to deliver rigorous instruction by emphasizing student engagement with complex texts, critical thinking, and comprehensive literary analysis

• Exhibits a laser focus on analyzing student work and student data, coupled with a deep commitment to data-driven decision making

• Quantifiable track record of outstanding academic results

• Unwavering commitment to feedback, improvement, practice, and notion of "I'M ALL IN!"

• Culturally aware, culturally sensitive, and asset-based thinking

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Develop and administer a Spanish Curriculum education curriculum consistent with school district goals and objectives

• Promote a classroom environment that is safe and conducive to individualized and small group instruction, and student learning

• Develop lesson plans and instructional materials and translates lesson plans into learning experiences to develop pertinent sequential assignments, challenge students, and best utilize the available time for instruction

• Teach knowledge and skills, including comprehension, grammar and syntax, sentence and paragraph structure, composition, vocabulary and proper word usage, colloquialisms, communication and translation of literature

• Develop student understanding and appreciation of the cultures and mores of countries where the language is the predominant or a major means of communication

• Work with students and others to prepare materials for inclusion in literary publications, contests, etc

• Conduct ongoing assessment of student learning and progress, and modifies instructional methods to fit individual student's needs, including students with special needs; conducts individual and small group instruction as needed

• Continue to acquire professional knowledge and learn of current developments in the educational field by attending seminars, workshops or professional meetings, or by conducting research

• Organize and maintain a system for accurate and complete record-keeping, grading, and reporting for all student activities, achievement and attendance as required by district procedures and applicable laws

• Encourage parental involvement in students' education and ensures effective communication with students and parents

• Ensure that student conduct conforms with the school's standards and school district policies,and establishes and maintains standards of student behavior needed to achieve a functional learning atmosphere in the classroom

• Coordinate with other professional staff members, especially within grade level, and participates in faculty meetings and committees

• Select and requisition appropriate books, instructional aids and other supplies and equipment and maintains inventory records

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree is required; Master's degree is preferred

• Teaching experience in an upper elementary, middle, or high school with an underserved population

• Adept interpersonal and communication skills to diverse audiences

• Valid NJ Teacher Certification completed or in progress