Spanish Teacher

Thehiregroup

Job details

  • ONSITE
  • FULL_TIME
  • Albany
  • United States
  • Verified 2026-09-25
  • Source: Thehiregroup public SMARTRECRUITERS source

Original job description

Job Description

JOB PURPOSE: The Spanish Teacher will educate students in grades 9-12 on Spanish basics.  This teacher is also responsible for fostering the habits and behavior that support the school’s value system of high expectations.  The school primarily serves at-risk students from low-income backgrounds in an urban setting.  The student body contains roughly 350 students.  

JOB DESCRIPTION:

•         Maintain and enrich their expertise in Spanish language and culture

•         Develop lesson plans that ensure the attainment of state learning standards and the additional specific grade-by-grade learning standards

•         Coordinate lesson plans with other teachers to maximize possibilities for teaching similar topics in the same general time frame, thus reinforcing student knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis

•         Provide direct and indirect instruction

•         Long and short-term planning addressing individual needs of students

•         Prepare students adequately for all required assessments

•         Evaluate students' progress

•         Prepare monthly individual student achievement reports for parents

•         Provide an inviting, exciting, innovative, learning environment

•         Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management

•         Serve as an advisor to all students, including organizing advisory groups, overseeing the academic and behavioral progress

Qualifications

•    Demonstrated expertise in Spanish, as evidenced by personal skills and knowledge

  • An undergraduate major or minor or graduate degree in Spanish, or direct subject-area teaching experience

•     Demonstrated ability and experience to engage the interest of high school-age children

•     Demonstrated ability to work with diverse children, including those with special needs

•     Teaching experience in a public or private school, preferably in an urban setting

•     Demonstrated ability to work well with parents

•     Demonstrated ability to evaluate tests and measurements. of achievement

•     Demonstrated willingness to be held accountable for student results

•     Preferred 9-12 Certification

•     Can – do attitude. Driven to not accept failure as an option

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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