Career Center

HudsonWay Immersion School (HWIS) is a progressive pre-K through Grade 8 Mandarin and Spanish Immersion School founded 16 years ago in the NJ/NY area. The school’s mission is to prepare students with the knowledge, skills and character to become global contributors and citizens of the world. Our values are excellence, respect, teamwork, integrity, communication, innovation, transparency, customer service, and accountability. HWIS has a strong academic reputation.

The lead teacher should understand and commit to the vision of the language immersion model. S/He must possess an excellent command of the language of instruction (Spanish) to model, instruct, and promote the students' social, emotional, and academic growth. 

Responsibilities:  

• Plan and instruct assigned classes to meet students' individual needs.   
• Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the students.  
• Encourages students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior. 
• Collaborate daily with colleagues to plan lessons and discuss student development.  
• Guides the learning process toward achieving curriculum goals.   
• Build classroom community by partnering with families to facilitate children's academic success and personal development. 
• Utilizes a variety of instructional strategies, innovating techniques that enhance the immersion model and incorporates social-emotional learning strategies in the classroom.  
• Assess students' accomplishments, including linguistic benchmarks in the target language, and provide progress reports as required.  
• Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities.  

Other responsibilities:  

• Maintains accurate and correct records as required by law, school policy, and administrative regulations.  
• Assists the administration in implementing all policies and rules governing student life and conducts them in the classroom.  
• Strives to maintain and improve professional competence.  
• Attends professional development, curriculum development sessions, and staff meetings and serves on committees as required. Encourages colleagues to pursue professional growth.  

Qualifications:  

• Native speaker of Spanish  
• At least three years of teaching experience in elementary preferred  
• Degree in early childhood or elementary education  
• Dedication to learning and growing as an educator  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills  
• High level of personal organization, planning, and classroom management skills 
• Vigorous technology usage preferred