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Job Title: Spanish Teacher – Part-time (Grades 9-12) 

Department: Waldorf High School 

Reports to: High School Director

Classification: Exempt, Part-time, Benefits-ineligible

Supervisory responsibility: No supervisory responsibilities

Salary: Salary offered depends on qualifications and years of teaching experience

How to Apply

If you are qualified and interested in joining a warm, hospitable, and growing community such as ours, please email your updated resume and letter of intention along with three professional references, to awsrecruitment@austinwaldorf.org.

Place the job title and your full name in the subject line of your email message and send it as shown below. If you are applying for multiple jobs, please send a separate message for each job.

High School Director

Austin Waldorf School, Inc.

8700 South View Road

Austin, TX 78737

awsrecruitment@austinwaldorf.org

Position Purpose

The High School Spanish Teacher (“Spanish Teacher” or “Teacher”) is responsible for guiding students in grades 9–12 in developing linguistic fluency, cultural understanding, and confidence in communication through the study of Spanish. Teaching 12 periods per week, the Teacher’s work is grounded in a developmental and experiential approach that integrates speaking, listening, reading, writing, movement, music, and cultural context.

In addition to classroom teaching, the Teacher coordinates and leads the school’s student exchange program, supporting immersive, relational, and culturally rich learning experiences aligned with Waldorf educational values. Teaching and program leadership are grounded in an anthroposophical understanding of adolescent development, supporting students’ growing capacity for abstraction while maintaining a living, relational connection to language.

TEACHING AND PROGRAM ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES

The Teacher must perform the following essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodations.

Spanish Language Instruction

1. Teach high school Spanish courses across grades 9–12, including multiple levels of proficiency
2. Design and deliver developmentally appropriate lessons that integrate:
   1. Spoken language and conversation
   2. Listening comprehension
   3. Reading and writing skills
   4. Grammar taught in context
   5. Cultural studies of the Spanish-speaking world
3. Create a classroom environment in which Spanish is used actively and regularly as the language of instruction
4. Support students in developing confidence, accuracy, and expressive capacity in Spanish
5. Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners while maintaining clear expectations
6. Integrate artistic, rhythmic, and experiential elements such as:
   1. Song, poetry, drama, and movement
   2. Storytelling and dialogue
   3. Cultural projects and celebrations

Student Exchange Program Leadership

1. Coordinate and oversee the school’s Spanish-language student exchange program
2. Serve as the primary liaison between the school, partner exchange organizations or sister schools, students, and families
3. Support students and families through the application, preparation, participation, and reintegration phases of exchange
4. Collaborate with administration to ensure exchanges align with school policies, safety standards, and developmental appropriateness
5. Integrate exchange experiences into the broader language and cultural curriculum
6. Support visiting exchange students and host families as appropriate

Pedagogical Approach

1. Teach out of an anthroposophical understanding of human development and adolescent learning
2. Balance experiential, oral, and relational language learning with increasing grammatical and written rigor
3. Support students’ transition from immersion and imitation toward conscious understanding and independent expression
4. Foster cultural empathy, curiosity, and global awareness