Middle School Spanish Instructor

Harding Academy • Nashville, TN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Harding Academy is a warm and caring school environment where respect is the key ingredient. Every child, parent, and colleague is a unique individual worthy of our understanding and greatest effort. Harding Academy employs outstanding faculty, staff, and administrators, provides technologically enhanced facilities, and offers a broad and challenging curriculum designed to develop the whole person. The mission of our school is to educate and inspire young people to become thoughtful, creative, lifelong learners and self-disciplined, responsible, caring citizens. Members of the faculty are an important part of this effort. We strive and serve so that the students may become young men and women who are able to make choices that will benefit themselves, our society, and our world. The start date for this position is August 6, 2026.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in subject area
• Professional maturity and the ability to respond calmly and effectively in stressful and dangerous situations.
• Professional and effective written, oral, and listening communication skills.
• Respectful attitude toward school faculty, students, and parents.
• Ability to maintain integrity and confidentiality of personal information.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of work, personal, and professional ethics.
• Enthusiasm for working collaboratively as part of the Harding Academy team.
• Active involvement in school functions, goals, activities, etc.
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking skills.
• Working knowledge of technology including email, spreadsheets, written and electronic correspondence, internet, school’s online portal, and smartboards.
• Must have reliable transportation.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree
• minimum three years experience in an instructional role
• current teacher certification in the State of Tennessee
• extracurricular participation or coaching experience

Responsibilities

• Delivery of the Harding Academy Spanish curriculum.
• Serve as a grade level advisor with all of its duties.
• Demonstrates a desire to meaningfully integrate technology into the classroom.
• Employs a variety of teaching methods to engage different learning styles and ability levels in the classroom.
• Prepares motivating and innovative lessons that reflect knowledge of the curriculum, child development, 21st century instruction, and student abilities.
• Encourages an inclusive classroom that accepts the different perspectives and backgrounds of the students and elicits a greater understanding of the world around them with a global perspective.
• Utilizes a variety of assessments and uses data in the classroom to develop lessons and instructional activities needed.
• Updates curriculum and materials as needed.
• Work collaboratively with the Learning Effectiveness Instructor to support and enrich students in and out of the classroom.
• Participates in the Fall Grade Level retreats.
• Participates in and chaperones Spring Grade Level field trips.
• Creates a learning environment that is a motivating and age-appropriate setting with clear expectations for classwork and homework while maintaining instructional resources that support classroom learning.
• Seeks to actively know students’ strengths and weaknesses and responds promptly and with care to parent concerns.
• Communicates effectively with parents, colleagues, and administrators.
• Utilizes the school's online system to maintain an accurate and organized system for monitoring and reporting student grades and records.
• Meets reporting deadlines and requirements and follows school-wide procedures for reporting grades.
• Prepares well-thought out and thorough conference reports and written documentation on student progress.
• Maintains substitute plans and engages substitutes in advance when needed and when possible.
• Demonstrates classroom management skills.
• Demonstrates a willingness to learn, grow, and improve as an educator.
• Continues to update knowledge of content area(s) taught, as well as instructional practices.
• Engages in goal setting and review process with assigned administrator.
• Attends and participates appropriately in full, divisional, and departmental/team faculty meetings.
• Maintains a positive attitude and approach.
• Supports colleagues.
• Represents the school in the larger community in a positive manner.
• Assists with projects and school-wide initiatives.
• Other work-related duties as assigned by supervisor or management.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level