Canton High School seeks a highly qualified and DESE-certified full-time Spanish teacher who has native or near-native fluency in the language to teach Spanish for the 2024-2025 school year and beyond.  

Successful applicants should be capable of teaching various levels of Spanish, and must have the knowledge and capacity to design and implement effective, student-centered high school world languages curriculum units and lessons. 

We are seeking a dynamic professional who will bring inclusive, differentiated, and purposeful standards-based instruction to the world languages classroom. Applicants must be effective communicators who can articulate what they believe to be the essential ingredients of quality world languages instruction and be able to deliver lessons in the target language that meet the academic and social-emotional needs of all learners. 

Desired candidates will be creative self-starters, able to design, scaffold, and implement instructional units and Integrated Performance Assessments informed by the current MA World Languages Curriculum Framework, ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and 2017 NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements, 21st Century Skills, Understanding By Design (UbD), and the essential design elements of Project-Based Learning (PBL). 

Candidates must be comfortable using a variety of technologies, such as a digital language laboratory and Google Classroom, to engage learners in authentic learning experiences.  Successful applicants will have experience with content-based instruction, proficiency-based teaching and learning, TPR/S, CI, universal design for learning, and student travel.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Current Massachusetts DESE certification in Spanish (5-12)
• Successful student teaching experience 
• Three (3) current professional references
• Experience integrating technology, including digital language lab technology, into lessons.
• Ability to collaborate with colleagues to develop interdisciplinary instructional units and common assessments and to work in data teams
• Flexible, dependable, and organized
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Passion for teaching high school students