Spanish Teacher - Cherokee - 0.67 FTE - 26-27 SY

About the role

The Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is the second‑largest school district in Wisconsin, serving a beautifully diverse population of more than 25,000 students — over half are students of color, nearly half come from low‑income households, almost one‑third are English Language Learners, and more than 100 languages are represented in its schools. MMSD’s vision is to ensure every school is a thriving school that prepares every student to graduate from high school ready for college, career, and community. The district is committed to being anti‑racist, culturally responsive, and inclusive, and seeks staff who will actively contribute to making MMSD a welcoming environment for all students, families, and staff.

Responsibilities

• Use standards (CCSS, SELS, Language) to identify common learning targets that represent what all students should know, do and understand as a result of instruction.
• Use knowledge of students’ background, interest, style, culture, language, individual needs, and assessment data to inform planning.
• Develop daily and weekly plans to support student growth towards mastery of standards.
• Develop common year‑long/course plans that identify the essential questions and resources to support student learning.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
• Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations to build student engagement, collaboration, and independence with complex tasks.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Provide daily opportunities for students to describe their reasoning, share explanations, make conjectures, justify conclusions, argue from evidence, and negotiate meaning.
• Define and plan formative assessments to show evidence of learning.
• Use multiple ways to check for student understanding and clarify, reteach and/or make adjustments to instruction based on information gathered.
• Provide students with meaningful feedback that reinforces effort, provides recognition and promotes student involvement and progress in the learning process.
• Provide opportunities for teacher‑to‑student, student‑to‑student and student‑to‑teacher feedback both orally and written.
• Analyze data and adjust instruction based on student achievement, observation, and teacher practice data.
• Establish rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible.
• Meet with parents/guardians to discuss their student's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
• Collaborate with all staff in support of student learning, e.g., team planning and co‑teaching.

Requirements

• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) teaching license in one or more of the following areas: Spanish, American Sign Language (ASL), Chinese, French, German, or other World Languages.
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally.
• Ability to work under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to environmental factors is minimal