Secondary Level Spanish Teacher

Deadline: February 21, 2025
District/Organization: Ludington Area School District
Position/Type: Teacher, full time
Salary: Starting salary $44,350 but actual salary based on teaching experience

Position Details

Ludington High School / OJ DeJonge Middle School Spanish Teacher (2025/2026 School Year) – This is a full time position. Starting pay will be at least $44,350 but actual salary is based upon experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan, prepare, and deliver lesson plans and instructional materials that facilitate learning for high school middle level students using the Michigan standards for Spanish as well as the district-approved curriculum to drive instructional decisions.

• Collaborate with teachers within the structure of a Professional Learning Community to enhance curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

• Use relevant technology, including the development of learning modules in the Canvas Learning Management System, to support and differentiate instruction and engage students in the learning process.

• Establish a classroom structure that values positive relationships and supports the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports system.

• Communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues, and parents regarding student progress and needs.

• Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities.

Additional Qualifications: Qualified candidate should skillfully demonstrate the following competencies:

• The strong desire and ability to build meaningful, caring relationships with students.

• The skill and willingness to leverage the ASCD Whole Child model to ensure that students’ social, emotional, nutritional and health needs are addressed.

• The ability to collaboratively create and execute clear, logical instructional plans that produce strong results in student learning.

• The ability to integrate 21st Century competencies such as technology literacy, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and problem solving, goal setting, ethical citizenship, and personal accountability in curriculum.

• The capacity to create a system of ongoing data collection and analysis to inform a tiered intervention system.

• The capacity to align curriculum, instruction and assessments while responding to individual needs of students.

Required Professional Qualification:

• Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Education

• Valid Michigan Teaching Certificate in Spanish

• FF endorsement

• Valid state licensing to meet Highly Qualified requirements

Apply in writing with a letter of interest, resume, copies of certification, transcripts and three letters of recommendation to Mr. Steve Forsberg, Principal, Ludington High School, Ludington Area School District, 809 E Tinkham Avenue, Ludington MI 49431. Application materials should be submitted as one (1) PDF attachment to: sforsberg@lasd.net .

E-mail: sforsberg@lasd.net