Part Time - Middle School Spanish Teacher​/Instructor

Job Details

Level: Experienced |

Job Location:

Nashville, TN 37205 | Position Type:
Part Time - 10 Month - Exempt | Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (4 Year Degree)

Harding Academy is a warm and caring school environment where respect is the key ingredient. Every child, parent, and colleague is a unique individual worthy of our understanding and greatest effort. Harding Academy employs outstanding faculty, staff, and administrators, provides technologically enhanced facilities, and offers a broad and challenging curriculum designed to develop the whole person.

The mission of our school is to educate and inspire young people to become thoughtful, creative, lifelong learners and self-disciplined, responsible, caring citizens. Members of the faculty are an important part of this effort. We strive and serve so that the students may become young men and women who are able to make choices that will benefit themselves, our society, and our world.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in subject area.

Preferences: Master’s and minimum three years experience in an instructional role; current teacher certification in the State of Tennessee; extracurricular participation or coaching experience.

Knowing that a classroom of students is comprised of individual and diverse learners, we believe that students learn best when instructional practices include:

• differentiated instruction that is designed according to student readiness, progress, and achievement, and is aligned with curriculum standards;
• academic enrichment that challenges students through accelerated learning experiences to advance critical thinking development;
• academic support that addresses the needs of students who require additional practice and alternative instruction to achieve content mastery;
• a brain-based pedagogical model that is informed by current research in human development and neuro-cognitive sciences which provides common language and consistent practices school wide.

The primary teaching responsibilities of this middle school Spanish teacher include delivery of the Harding Academy Spanish curriculum to our 6th graders. In order to achieve this, Harding Academy faculty work with their students, families, and colleagues across the following four domains.

• Demonstrates a desire to meaningfully integrate technology into the classroom
• Employs a variety of teaching methods to engage different learning styles and ability levels in the classroom
• Prepares motivating and innovative lessons that reflect knowledge of the curriculum, child development, 21st century instruction, and student abilities
• Encourages an inclusive classroom that accepts the different perspectives and backgrounds of the students and elicits a greater understanding of the world around them with a global perspective
• Utilizes a variety of assessments and uses data in the classroom to develop lessons and instructional activities needed
• Updates curriculum and materials as needed
• Serves as a grade level advisor
• Work collaboratively with the Learning Effectiveness Instructor to support and enrich students in and out of the classroom.

• Creates a learning environment that is a motivating and age-appropriate setting with clear expectations for classwork and homework while maintaining instructional resources that support classroom learning
• Seeks to actively know students’ strengths and weaknesses and responds promptly and with care to parent concerns. Communicates effectively with parents, colleagues, and administrators
• Utilizes the school's online system to maintain an accurate and organized system for monitoring and reporting student grades and records.
• Meets reporting deadlines and requirements and follows school-wide procedures for reporting grades
• Prepares well‑thought out and thorough conference reports and written documentation on student progress
• Maintains substitute plans and engages substitutes in advance when needed and when possible
• Demonstrates classroom management skills

• Demonstrates a willingness to learn, grow, and improve as an educator
• Continues to update knowledge of content…