POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Spanish Teacher - Part Time
Saint Ann's School, an independent, non-sectarian day school, is seeking a part-time Spanish teacher for Middle School (7th and 8th grade). We seek a passionate, inspiring, and experienced linguist with native or near-native fluency in Spanish. Our students expect to have a teacher who knows and loves languages and can share their passion with them. Students begin their foreign language study in the 7th grade. Working under curricular guidelines and with recommended textbooks, teachers are expected to design their own courses. There is much support from the Department Chair, colleagues, and written resources for this creatively demanding task, but the teacher is the artist and will be responsible for crafting the lessons and deciding how to enliven the subject.
Teachers at Saint Ann’s must be committed to working with students from a wide variety of backgrounds, meeting the individual needs of students, and investing in the School’s ongoing work around issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We do not give grades. Instead, twice a year, teachers write reports on each student’s progress. Reports are a holistic description of a student’s work over the course of the semester and include anecdotes, descriptions of a child’s progress with particular skills, and the development of their understanding of the subject material. Report writing is intrinsic to how we understand our students, and teachers find it more rewarding and satisfying than giving grades.
ABOUT SAINT ANN’S SCHOOL
Since its founding in 1965, Saint Ann’s has embraced a commitment to education for its own sake, oriented to the capacities of each individual student and free of the encumbrances of formal grading, prizes, and rankings. At the same time, we are unabashedly committed to excellence in all that we do. With a faculty and staff numbering close to 400, and a student body of approximately 900, we are a vibrant and diverse community of learners.
