Elementary Spanish Teacher - FTE - SY

Elementary Spanish Program Educator

The Wellesley Public Schools Elementary Spanish Program is built on a simple belief: languages are for ALL learners.

We seek an educator who shares our commitment to creating inclusive, engaging, and proficiency-focused learning experiences for students in grades K–5. Spanish is part of the elementary core curriculum, and all students participate in language learning three times per week.

Our program emphasizes communication over memorization, meaningful intercultural learning, and the development of confident language users. Through standards-based instruction aligned with the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards and the Massachusetts World Languages Framework, students learn to communicate in Spanish while exploring cultures, perspectives, and connections that help them better understand themselves and the world around them.

The successful candidate will join a highly collaborative department dedicated to ensuring that every student feels welcomed, challenged, supported, and capable of success as a language learner.

• Provides comprehensible, proficiency-focused instruction aligned with the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards and the Massachusetts World Languages Framework.
• Uses Spanish as the primary language of instruction while providing appropriate supports to ensure meaningful access and engagement for all learners.
• Creates engaging learning experiences that develop students' interpersonal, interpretive, presentational, and intercultural communication skills.
• Fosters curiosity, empathy, and intercultural understanding by exploring diverse Spanish-speaking communities, cultures, and perspectives.
• Collaborates with colleagues to develop curriculum, common assessments, instructional resources, and learning experiences that support a coherent and vertically aligned proficiency-based language program.

• Meets and instructs students in grades K–5 in Spanish during assigned class time and at designated locations.
• Plans a program of study that, as much as possible, meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of the students.
• Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students.
• Prepares for classes assigned and shows written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate superior.
• Encourages students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior.
• Guides the learning process toward achieving curriculum goals and proficiency targets and, in harmony with those goals, establishes clear objectives for lessons, units, and assessments.
• Employs a variety of instructional techniques, instructional media, and comprehensible input strategies consistent with the physical limitations of the location provided and the needs and capabilities of the individuals or student groups involved.
• Strives to implement by instruction and action the district's philosophy of education and instructional goals and objectives.
• Assesses the accomplishments of students on a regular basis and provides progress reports as required.
• Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities.
• Maintains accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulation.
• Assists the administration in implementing all policies and rules governing student life and conduct, and for the classroom, develops reasonable rules of classroom behavior and procedure, and maintains order in the classroom in a fair and just manner.
• Makes provision for being available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional day when required or requested to do so under reasonable terms and as outlined in the collective bargaining agreement, if applicable.
• Plans and supervises purposeful assignments for teacher aide(s) and volunteer(s) and, cooperatively with department heads and principals assists in the evaluation of their job performance.
• Strives to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Attends staff meetings and serves on staff committees as required.
• Teaches Spanish using the…