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Mansfield City School District Kidnergarten Spanish Language Arts/Social Studies Teacher in Mansfield, Ohio
There is a Kindergarten Spanish Language Arts/Social Studies Teacher position open at the Spanish Immersion School for the 2026-2027 school year. The class will be taught in Spanish.
Listed below are some duties, responsibilities and requirements for this position:
[QUALIFICATIONS]{.underline}:
- Accredited college/university degree.
- Valid Ohio elementary teaching license is required for grades and subjects taught. Substitute licensure will not be accepted.
- Applicant [must]{.underline} possess Highly Qualified Teacher status.
- [Must have near-native proficiency in the Spanish language]{.underline}
- Successful experience in working in multicultural settings.
- A minimum of one year of living in a Spanish speaking country is preferred.
- Prior immersion classroom teaching experience is preferred.
- Teaching experience among K-8 age group, preferably in Spanish content.
- Experience using dynamic, child-centered educational techniques and media, and highly creative.
- Technologically prepared to teach in modern classrooms.
- Highly organized, motivated and willing to set high expectations for self and students.
- For non-native Spanish speakers a score of "superior" on the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) is strongly preferred
[JOB OBJECTIVE:]{.underline}
To provide the instruction, motivation and encouragement that will enable the students to fulfill their optimum potential and achieve at the highest level.
[DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE TO]{.underline}: The building principal or his/her administrative designee.
[Essential Skills]{.underline}:
Communications Skills: As well as the traditional communication skills of reading, speaking and writing coherently and clearly, social media communication skills and proper protocols of online engagement are essential. These might include the ability to create a short YouTube video to capture the demonstration of a process or to make a sales pitch, the ability to reach out through the internet to a wide community of people with one's ideas, to receive and incorporate feedback, to share information appropriately, and to identify trends and ideas from elsewhere;
The Ability to Learn Independently: This means taking responsibility for working out what you need to know, and where to find that knowledge. This is an ongoing process in knowledge-based work, because the knowledge base is constantly changing. it could be learning about new equipment, new ways of doing things, or learning who are the people you need to know to get the job done;
Ethics and Responsibility: This is required to build trust (particularly important in informal social networks), in a world where there are many different players, and a greater degree of reliance on others to accomplish one's own goals;
Teamwork and Flexibility: This depends heavily on collaboration and the sharing of knowledge with others in related but independent organizations. Teachers need to know how to work collaboratively, virtually and at a distance, with colleagues, students and partners. The 'pooling' of collective knowledge, problem-solving and implementation requires good teamwork and flexibility in taking on tasks or solving problems that may be outside a narrow job definition but necessary for success;
Thinking Skills (critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, originality, strategizing): Of all the skills needed in a knowledge-based society, these are some of the most important. Teachers dealing with students, parents and the gene