About Spring Lake Park Schools
Welcome to Spring Lake Park Schools! We are a vibrant school community serving about 5,800 students from the suburbs of Blaine, Fridley and Spring Lake Park, in the northern Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Our district purpose — “High expectations, high achievement for all. No excuses” – provides our focus to meet the unique and varied needs of each student.
Spring Lake Park Schools is recognized for our commitment to personalized learning, creating a culture of innovation and creativity through human-centered design thinking. We are working to create a system – a culture with a methodology and set of processes – where teachers and staff have the freedom, flexibility and invitation to design new ways of learning centered around deepening student engagement to continuously improve student success.
Position Overview
The successful candidate will be an individual who …
… firmly believes:
all students can and will learn, and that their learning can be directly influenced by focusing on factors over which we have control;
in the need to work interdependently with teachers, school, and district leaders throughout the system, aligning the work of adults around improving student learning by meeting the needs, interests, and aspirations of students;
in the need to work in partnership with staff to continuously improve practices to enhance student and family engagement, creating the conditions for equity, excellence and student success; and
in personalizing learning for students, meeting academic, social, and emotional needs and aspirations so that each student feels valued and has a sense of belonging, leading to academic success
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
1. Provide and deliver classroom instruction to students in Spanish immersion school incorporating the essential elements of instruction.
2. Plan and develop instructional materials, lessons, plans and other support activities to present approved district curriculum to students in Spanish in accordance with district goals and objectives.
3. Determine needs and abilities of students, and determine methods and techniques to best present and provide instruction to students within assigned subject areas.
4. Evaluate student performance against learning objectives; develop tests and materials to assess student learning and performance.
5. Conduct parent teacher conferences to discuss student progress, problems, strengths, concerns or other pertinent issues of the student, family and school.
6. Establish and maintain student control and discipline in the classroom.
7. Collaborate with other educational professionals and administrators regarding the needs of students, instructional needs, new instructional technologies or approaches to student problems, learning or curriculum.
8. Perform other comparable duties of a like or similar nature as assigned.