Part Time Early Childhood Spanish Teacher & Teaching Assistant

Description

St. Philip’s School and Community Center is seeking a warm, enthusiastic, and creative Early Childhood Spanish Teacher to introduce young learners (ages 3–6) to the Spanish language through immersive, play-based, and developmentally appropriate experiences. The ideal candidate will bring language learning to life through songs, stories, movement, and hands‑on activities that engage children’s natural curiosity and joy for learning. This teacher plays a vital role in promoting early language acquisition, cultural appreciation, and communication skills within a nurturing classroom community.

• Design and deliver engaging Spanish lessons that support oral language development, basic vocabulary, and cultural awareness.
• Use storytelling, music, art, games, and dramatic play to create an immersive language environment.
• Plan activities that align with early childhood developmental stages and support school‑wide themes or units.
• Foster a positive classroom culture where students feel safe to take language risks and express themselves.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers to reinforce vocabulary and integrate Spanish into daily classroom life.
• Assess student progress informally through observation, performance, and participation.
• Communicate with families about classroom learning and student progress as needed.
• Create visual supports and labels to encourage continued language exposure throughout the classroom
• Assess student growth and provide feedback to families and school leadership as appropriate.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers and support staff to align physical education with classroom themes and developmental goals.
• Assesses student progress towards learning targets, objectives, expectations, and/or goals for the purpose of providing feedback to students, parents and administration.
• Collaborates with instructional staff, other school personnel, parents and a variety of community resources for the purpose of improving the overall quality of student outcomes, achieving established classroom objectives in support of the school improvement plan.
• Counsels students for the purpose of improving performance, health status, appropriate behavior, problem solving techniques and a variety of personal issues.
• Demonstrates and differentiates methods required to perform classroom and/or subject specific assignments for the purpose of providing an effective program that addressing individual student requirements.
• Manages student behavior for the purpose of providing a safe and optimal learning environment.
• Monitors students in a variety of educational environments (e.g. classroom, cafeteria, playground, school grounds, hallways, restrooms, field trips, etc.) for the purpose of providing a safe and positive learning environment.
• Participates in a variety of meetings and professional development activities for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to perform functions and to improve student achievement.
• Maintain equipment, ensure safe usage, and model appropriate physical behavior.
• Prepares a variety of written materials (e.g., lesson plans following scope and sequence, correspondence with parents and students, for the purpose of documenting student progress and meeting mandated requirements.
• Supports the classroom teachers for the purpose of assisting them in the implementation of established curriculum and/or individual student plans.

Requirements

SKILLS are required to perform multiple, highly complex, technical tasks with a need to periodically upgrade skills in order to meet changing job conditions. Specific skill-based competencies required to satisfactorily perform the functions of the job include: applying assessment instruments; operating standard office equipment including using pertinent software applications; and preparing and maintaining accurate records.

Knowledge is required to perform basic math, including calculations using fractions, precents, and/or ratios; read technical information, compose a variety of documents, and/or facilitate group discussions; and analyze…