Pyp World Language Enrichment Teacher [Lic2732]

Liberty Elementary has declared a licensed teaching position open for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP). The successful candidate will support both teachers and students in the successful implementation of the PYP World Language course.
Contract:
Contract Length: 183.5 days
Start date: August 16, 2023
Tasks and Responsibilities:
PYP World Language

• Assist in the creation and communication of school language policy.
• Assist teachers and students in the creation of student language portraits.
• Promoting language learning as a means to build and strengthen intercultural relationships.
• Creating environments where students use their home language with pride, and access a host of global languages to engage with the learning community.
• Communicating and embedding the values and beliefs that underpin multilingualism within the Liberty learning community.
• Developing students' metalinguistic skills and understandings by facilitating and actively encouraging students to make connections between languages.
• Ensuring that multiple languages are seen and heard throughout the school and in communications between home and school.
• Supporting teachers and students in inquiry-based learning that explores and supports the use of multiple languages.
• Supporting the school community's effectiveness in building a positive culture of language learning through collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Establishing connections for enrichment between the school and local and global communities

• Engage in continuous learning to deepen professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions in organizational change and leadership, project management, and adult learning to improve professional practice.
• Regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences.
• Participate in team meetings and ad hoc problem-solving meetings (as necessary).
• Maintain, manage, and share a variety of resources for teacher and student use in learner-centered classrooms.

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited institution
• Meet professional teacher education requirements of school, district, state.
• Have experience teaching a foreign language