HS Spanish Teacher

Job Title:

Spanish Teacher – Part-time (Grades 9-12)

Department:
Waldorf High School

Reports to:

High School Director

Supervisory responsibility:
No supervisory responsibilities

Salary:
Salary offered depends on qualifications and years of teaching experience

The High School Spanish Teacher (“Spanish Teacher” or “Teacher”) is responsible for guiding students in grades 9–12 in developing linguistic fluency, cultural understanding, and confidence in communication through the study of Spanish. Teaching 12 periods per week, the Teacher’s work is grounded in a developmental and experiential approach that integrates speaking, listening, reading, writing, movement, music, and cultural context.

In addition to classroom teaching, the Teacher coordinates and leads the school’s student exchange program, supporting immersive, relational, and culturally rich learning experiences aligned with Waldorf educational values. Teaching and program leadership are grounded in an anthroposophical understanding of adolescent development, supporting students’ growing capacity for abstraction while maintaining a living, relational connection to language.

The Teacher must perform the following essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodations.

• Teach high school Spanish courses across grades 9–12, including multiple levels of proficiency
• Design and deliver developmentally appropriate lessons that integrate:
  • Spoken language and conversation
  • Listening comprehension
  • Reading and writing skills
  • Grammar taught in context
  • Cultural studies of the Spanish-speaking world
• Create a classroom environment in which Spanish is used actively and regularly as the language of instruction
• Support students in developing confidence, accuracy, and expressive capacity in Spanish
• Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners while maintaining clear expectations
• Integrate artistic, rhythmic, and experiential elements such as:
  • Song, poetry, drama, and movement
  • Storytelling and dialogue
  • Cultural projects and celebrations
• Coordinate and oversee the school’s Spanish-language student exchange program
• Serve as the primary liaison between the school, partner exchange organizations or sister schools, students, and families
• Support students and families through the application, preparation, participation, and reintegration phases of exchange
• Collaborate with administration to ensure exchanges align with school policies, safety standards, and developmental appropriateness
• Integrate exchange experiences into the broader language and cultural curriculum
• Support visiting exchange students and host families as appropriate

• Teach out of an anthroposophical understanding of human development and adolescent learning
• Balance experiential, oral, and relational language learning with increasing grammatical and written rigor
• Support students’ transition from immersion and imitation toward conscious understanding and independent expression
• Foster cultural empathy, curiosity, and global awareness
• Encourage resilience, confidence, and risk-taking in communication

• Carry shared responsibility for the Spanish program in collaboration with other language faculty
• Collaborate closely with STEM, Humanities, World Language, and Arts faculty to support interdisciplinary learning
• Attend and participate fully in departmental faculty meetings and full faculty meetings
• Participate in faculty mentoring, evaluation processes, and ongoing curriculum development
• Substitute for colleagues as requested
• Participate in school festivals, assemblies, open houses, year-start and year-end trips, and community events
• Represent the Language program and the school professionally to parents and the wider community

• Teach an average of 12 class periods per week (480 minutes per week), including main lesson blocks and skills classes
• Be on campus as required during the regular school day (typically 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
• Check and respond to email daily and communicate promptly with students, families, and colleagues
• Demonstrate proficiency with Google…