What are the responsibilities and job description for the Middle School German Teacher (9-12 hours/week) position at Green Ivy Schools?
Description
Pine Street School is hiring for the 2025-2026 school year!
Starting mid-August, 2025
ABOUT PINE STREET SCHOOL
Pine Street School, a member of Green Ivy Schools, is an internationally-minded community dedicated to providing an innovative, engaging, multilingual, and multicultural education that inspires and empowers our students to take mindful action for equity and the environment, making a positive impact on the world. We prioritize authentic student learning, activism, community engagement, and ethical enthusiasm for emerging technology. We offer both Spanish and Mandarin immersion programs for students in grades preschool through 8th grade. Effective Fall of 2025, we will be offering a German language track for intermediate to advanced German language-speakers in our middle school.
Our school welcomes people ready to learn, contribute and collaborate together in order to co-create a curriculum that is significant, relevant, engaging and challenging. Our teachers are dedicated to supporting the growth and development of young people with the skills, knowledge and compassion necessary to face and overcome some of our greatest challenges. Our global community will require open-minded and flexible thinkers with the ability to problem solve and strategize through challenges. We share the belief that a multilingual and multicultural education allows our students to make connections across cultures, open doors and break down barriers.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a dynamic German teacher to teach intermediate and advanced middle school students. This is an hourly position which we expect to be between 9-12 hours per week.
HOW YOU WILL SUPPORT PINE STREET SCHOOL STUDENTS (Hourly, 9-12 hours/week)
- Develop and implement engaging, student-centered lesson plans that encourage critical thinking and creativity.
- Create a positive and supportive classroom environment that promotes student engagement and collaboration.
- Assess student learning and provide regular feedback to support student growth and development.
- Communicate effectively with students, parents, and colleagues to ensure a strong home-school connection.
- Stay current with education research best practices, and continuously reflect on and improve teaching practices.
- Collaborate with colleagues to design and implement interdisciplinary units of study that connect multiple subjects and real-world issues.
- Participate in professional development opportunities to further personal and professional growth.
- Participate in occasional evening and afterschool obligations, including prep, admissions, ambassador support, parent education, and community building events.
ABOUT YOU
- You are passionate about innovative global education
- You value and are dedicated to support language immersion practices
- You have exceptional communication skills and a nurturing, supportive approach
- You are dedicated to constructivist, inquiry driven teaching practices
- You are open-minded, embrace diverse perspectives and thrive in a global, inclusive environment
- You enjoy collaborating with fellow teachers to co-create curriculum
- You are excited to learn and grow as a teacher and seek to implement outstanding teaching practices and student engagement skills
- You are skilled at assessing and documenting student learning and using assessment data to drive planning and teaching
- You are tech savvy and value technology as a key learning and teaching tool
- You believe in city-as-classroom learning experiences
- You value and implement service learning
- You are organized, proactive and meet deadlines
- You go beyond expectations
- You are trustworthy, dependable and have a strong work ethic
WHY WORK AT PINE STREET SCHOOL
Green Ivy International Schools are dedicated to attracting, developing, rewarding, and retaining a world-class faculty. Our goal is to create a welcoming culture of inclusion and belonging for our internationally diverse community of teachers, administrators, and staff. We place high priority on advances in compensation, benefits, and work climate.
BENEFITS
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance plans
- Generous paid time off policies to support work-life balance
- 401(k) retirement plan with up to 4% matching contributions
- Tuition discounts for employees' children
- Access to ongoing professional development and training opportunities
- A collaborative and supportive team of dedicated educators who are passionate about making a difference
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in subject area(s), Master’s degree is highly desired.
- Fluent in German (highly advanced German language skills, C2 level)
- Minimum of three (3) years middle school teaching experience
- Experience in an IB School, Independent School or International Teaching experience strongly preferred
- A valid teaching certification (or equivalent)
- Fluent in English (able to successfully attend workshops, read professional information and work collaboratively in the language.)
- Experience in a 1:1 student device environment
- Experience teaching with Apple learning technologies and Google Workspace
- Desire to participate in co-curricular activities
- Fully authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future preferred
Salary : $35 - $45
