Category: Part Time;
Position Title: Part-Time LATIN & FRENCH TEACHER
Start Date: 08/31/2021
End Date:
Location: Wayland Middle School
Job Information:
Wayland Middle School is seeking a dynamic addition to the World Languages Department who is able to instill a love of learning another language in each young student. Candidates should have experience teaching the novice level and the desire to work in a proficiency-focused performance-based language department in both Latin and French. Experience studying and/or traveling abroad is helpful, as well as knowledge of communicative and kinesthetic language instruction (such as Organic World Language or Operation Lapis), Standards-Based Grading, backward design, the World Readiness Standards, and ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines/Standards for Classical Language Learning 2017. As we are a 1:1 school, candidates must be able to integrate appropriate technology to connect the students to the teacher, to one another and to the global community. Candidates will become active and supported members of a Professional Learning Community with teachers of the same languages in the building.
Qualifications: 1. Bachelor’s degree with at least 36 semester hours in the teaching area(s) required;
2. Massachusetts licensure (or evidence of pending licensure) in one or more languages listed above;
3. Preferred candidates will be able and licensed to teach both of the languages listed above;
4. Satisfactory, supervised experience within the last five years as a teacher, student teacher, intern, or apprentice in this discipline;
5. Experience in a multicultural setting preferred;
6. Commitment to Wayland’s goals of diversity and inclusion;
7. The ability to demonstrate: superior knowledge of this field, effective pedagogical skills, excellent communication skills, an enthusiasm for learning, and the desire to maximize the learning potential of all children;
8. Possess those personal and professional characteristics necessary to carry out the responsibilities of the position;
9. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Wayland Public Schools may find appropriate.
Language/Languages: Latin/French
Contact Name: Klara Sands
Contact email for questions: klara_sands@waylandps.org
Application Instructions: Please fill out the application on SchoolSpring. To find out more about our WL program, and each language, please visit the Wayland Middle School website. https://wms.wayland.k12.ma.us/academics/world_languages_department
