Spanish Bilingual DLI Kindergarten Teacher - Leopold - FTE - SY

Elementary School Operations

Leopold Elementary – Minimum Annual Compensation: $52,154 (25‑26 TE Salary Schedule). Length of

Contract:

192 days.

Employment Type:

Exempt.

• Use standards (CCSS, SELS, Language) to identify common learning targets that represent what all students should know, do, and understand as a result of instruction.
• Use knowledge of students’ background, interest, style, culture, language, individual needs, and assessment data to inform planning.
• Develop daily and weekly plans to support student growth toward mastery of standards.
• Develop common year‑long/course plans that identify the essential questions and resources to support student learning.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
• Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations to build student engagement, collaboration, and independence with complex tasks.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Provide daily opportunities for students to describe their reasoning, share explanations, make conjectures, justify conclusions, argue from evidence, and negotiate meaning.
• Define and plan formative assessments to show evidence of learning.
• Use multiple ways to check for student understanding and clarify, reteach, and/or make adjustments to instruction based on information gathered.
• Provide students with meaningful feedback that reinforces effort, provides recognition, and promotes student involvement and progress in the learning process.
• Provide opportunities for teacher‑to‑student, student‑to‑student and student‑to‑teacher feedback both orally and written.
• Analyze data and adjust instruction based on student achievement, observation, and teacher practice data.
• Establish rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible.
• Meet with parents/guardians to discuss their student's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
• Collaborate with all staff in support of student learning (e.g., team planning and co‑teaching).

• Serve as a bilingual classroom teacher as part of the District’s bilingual and English Language Learner (EL) programs.
• Assist in the development of curriculum for bilingual and ESL instruction in the District.
• Provide classroom instruction to students in bilingual classrooms.
• Provide additional support and leadership to the bilingual and ESL education programs as requested.

• Bachelor’s degree. Official transcripts are required for formal employment.
• Native‑like fluency in Spanish and English. For Bilingual Resource Teacher and Dual Language Immersion positions, a Spanish language proficiency assessment is required.
• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) teaching license in one of the following:
  High School (core content: Math, Science, English Language Arts, or Social Studies; ESL preferred), Middle School (regular education inclusive of grades 6‑8; ESL preferred), or Elementary School (regular education inclusive of grades PK‑3, K‑6, or 1‑8; ESL preferred).

Applications are considered on a rolling basis. MMSD will consider applicants who are fully licensed before considering applicants who are not yet licensed. If you do not already have an active Wisconsin teaching license, you must obtain and maintain the necessary license(s) for the position. An application must be on file within 30 days of starting employment with MMSD. Failure to do so will result in your contract being voided.

The district does not provide financial support for the continued education required to achieve the certification.

• Upon successful completion of your application, you will be sent testing information for our reading, writing, and oral language proficiency assessments to determine eligibility for the position.
• Upon passing the assessments, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. Based on your application materials, a hiring manager may reach out to you to schedule an…