Title
Spanish Teacher - Part Time
Location
DVFriends, 19 E. Central Ave, Paoli, PA 19301
Description
About DVFriends
Delaware Valley Friends School is a national leader in educating bright students in grades 1-12 with reading, writing, and other related learning differences. The school attracts students from across the Philadelphia area and is in the midst of several years of program expansion and enrollment growth. Students receive a comprehensive, research-based, college preparatory curriculum, individualized instruction, cutting-edge assistive technologies, and successful college placement, with an emphasis on metacognition and self-advocacy within a community based on Quaker values. As a teacher at DVFriends, you will join a dynamic team aligned in the goal of helping bright students with learning differences reach their full potential.
About you and the role
This position involves teaching Spanish classes mostly in the upper school, with the possibility of some teaching in the lower school during the lower school "specials" rotation. The position is part time for 2023-24 (2/3rds of a faculty load) and there is an option to gain additional compensation as an in house substitute teacher. Teachers also fulfill other assigned duties and report directly to their division director.
To get started, visit https://app.beapplied.com/apply/a08xkohy9p?utm_source=FCE
You’ll answer some questions that are related to your day-to-day duties. Your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymized, randomized, and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers. If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next step, which includes a set of interviews over Zoom and/or on campus. At the end of the application process, we'll share how well you performed.
Delaware Valley Friends School is a national leader in educating bright students in grades 1-12 with reading, writing, and other related learning differences. The school attracts students from across the Philadelphia area and is in the midst of several years of program expansion and enrollment growth. Students receive a comprehensive, research-based, college preparatory curriculum, individualized instruction, cutting-edge assistive technologies, and successful college placement, with an emphasis on metacognition and self-advocacy within a community based on Quaker values. As a teacher at DVFriends, you will join a dynamic team aligned in the goal of helping bright students with learning differences reach their full potential.
About you and the role
This position involves teaching Spanish classes mostly in the upper school, with the possibility of some teaching in the lower school during the lower school "specials" rotation. The position is part time for 2023-24 (2/3rds of a faculty load) and there is an option to gain additional compensation as an in house substitute teacher. Teachers also fulfill other assigned duties and report directly to their division director.
To get started, visit https://app.beapplied.com/apply/a08xkohy9p?utm_source=FCE
You’ll answer some questions that are related to your day-to-day duties. Your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymized, randomized, and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers. If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next step, which includes a set of interviews over Zoom and/or on campus. At the end of the application process, we'll share how well you performed.
Benefits
You'll benefit from:
● A robust health insurance plan, including a school contribution that makes a significant cost offset for employee and partner/family plans.
● Employer match of retirement plan contributions up to 6% of salary.
● A 10-month contract, allowing ample time for recharging your battery over the summer.
● A robust health insurance plan, including a school contribution that makes a significant cost offset for employee and partner/family plans.
● Employer match of retirement plan contributions up to 6% of salary.
● A 10-month contract, allowing ample time for recharging your battery over the summer.
Requirements
You'll be the right person for this job if:
● You want to work for a school that improves kids’ lives alongside people who share that
motivation.
● You have had meaningful experience working with kids and/or teens that has energized
you and made you optimistic about what students can achieve with the right support and
guidance.
● You communicate well, and you have well-developed organizational and
executive-function skills to lead and manage a complex and nuanced learning
environment.
● You see differences among students and adults as value-added, opening up creative
pathways to learning and setting the stage for more equitable communities.
● You know yourself well, faults and strengths, and approach others with empathy and generosity of spirit.
● You actively face challenges and lean into problems, drawing upon people and resources to solve them.
● Being around young people provides you with optimism and energy.
● You have a college degree by the position’s start date.
● You want to work for a school that improves kids’ lives alongside people who share that
motivation.
● You have had meaningful experience working with kids and/or teens that has energized
you and made you optimistic about what students can achieve with the right support and
guidance.
● You communicate well, and you have well-developed organizational and
executive-function skills to lead and manage a complex and nuanced learning
environment.
● You see differences among students and adults as value-added, opening up creative
pathways to learning and setting the stage for more equitable communities.
● You know yourself well, faults and strengths, and approach others with empathy and generosity of spirit.
● You actively face challenges and lean into problems, drawing upon people and resources to solve them.
● Being around young people provides you with optimism and energy.
● You have a college degree by the position’s start date.
Files
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