K-2 Elementary Dual Immersion Teacher-Spanish Instruction

ELEMENTARY DUAL IMMERSION TEACHER - SPANISH INSTRUCTION

MUNGER MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY

ELEMENTARY GRADES K-2

187 DAY CONTRACT

School Year, 8/21/26-6/16/27

Insurance, Retirement Benefits, Paid Time Off

Grade level to be determined by staffing placements within the building.

To provide culturally embedded, student-centered, thematically-based, and literature-rich instruction in the elementary classroom that meets district standards and benchmarks. Said instruction should focus on engaging students in concept/theme-based, meaningful activities to ensure they master oral language proficiency and biliteracy in Spanish and English. This position will act as the Spanish-side teacher in a Spanish/English teaching team.

Building Administration

• Plan lessons for daily instruction that derive from district standards and benchmarks and dual immersion curriculum.
• Assist in the development of curriculum for the dual immersion program, particularly the thematic or concept-based units that are congruent with and supportive of the regular elementary curriculum in all content areas.
• Align educational experiences in the classroom that reflect the philosophy and expectations of the dual immersion program.
• Conduct 98-100% of instruction in Spanish.
• Co-plan with a partner teacher daily to ensure program cohesion and student success.
• Structure activities in the classroom to encourage students to engage in both language input and output, to facilitate oral language production and comprehension.
• Avoid any use of translation to facilitate comprehension; rather, the teacher shall use context clues, manipulatives, visuals, and student-centered instruction to facilitate comprehension.
• Effectively differentiate both content and language learning to ensure that all students successfully meet program benchmarks and outcomes.
• Assess student progress in a formative manner in oral and written language development, and adjust instruction according to the results of those assessments.
• Use a variety of strategies to maintain frequent and regular contact with parents.
• Choose songs, games, stories, and rhymes that are authentic and representative of various Latino/Hispanic cultures, rather than translations.
• Seek frequent opportunities for professional and language development.
• Work proactively to promote and support second language learning and bi-literacy throughout the school and district.

• Bachelor's Degree
• Ability to teach grade level content in Spanish and English
• Advanced-Mid on all four domains of ACTFL proficiency scale - documentation may be required for employment
• All abilities of a "good" teacher: excellent classroom management, sound instructional practice, ability to communicate effectively with parent(s) and other school personnel, etc.
• Ability to differentiate for learners at different academic and language levels
• Desire and ability to work collaboratively in a teaming situation
• Understanding of dual immersion programming and research
• Strong advocate for program philosophy
• Strong knowledge of Spanish literacy development

• Native or native-like Spanish-speaker
• At least three years demonstrated excellence in elementary classroom instruction
• Extremely proficient in sheltered instruction
• Cultural knowledge and ability to develop cross-cultural competencies
• Strong ability to develop meaningful, relevant curriculum
• ESL/Bilingual endorsement or relevant teaching experience
• Reading endorsement or significant training in literacy development.
• Experience teaching in a dual immersion program

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Elementary Education preferred
• Wyoming teacher certification with an Elementary Education K-6, Dual Immersion K-12, required. (Applicants must be able to obtain a teaching certificate issued by the Wyoming Professional Teaching Standards Board)

• Wyoming experience.
• Out-of-state experience up to 7 years.
• Degree Bachelor's, Masters, or Doctorate.
• Semester Graduate Credits beyond Degree.

Salary pending approval of the 26/27 Compensation Package; 25/26 package can be found here.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand and talk or hear and sometimes walk and sit on the floor depending on the age of the children.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally push or lift up to 50 lbs. 0 - 12 feet and on occasion up to 20 feet, such as boxes of books and AV/VCR carts. Occasionally the employee will bend or twist at the neck more than the average person, may need to lift arms to write on chalk or marking board and occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch and reach 0 - 24…