About the Role
The Maternelle & Lower School Instructional Support Teacher plays a vital role in ensuring instructional continuity and excellence across the Lower School. This educator provides high-quality classroom instruction, supports student learning, and contributes to the daily life of our bilingual, multicultural school community.
Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality instruction in French and English classrooms during planned and unplanned teacher absences.
- Deliver lessons that align with the school's curriculum and maintain continuity of learning.
- Foster a safe, inclusive, and engaging classroom environment that promotes student growth and well-being.
- Build positive relationships with students across grade levels and become a trusted member of the Lower School community.
- Collaborate closely with classroom teachers, specialists, learning support staff, and administrators to ensure a seamless educational experience for students.
- Provide small-group or individualized instructional support when classroom coverage is not required.
- Support classroom management and reinforce school-wide expectations for student behavior.
- Participate actively in faculty meetings, professional learning, school events, and other community activities.
- Maintain effective communication with colleagues and administrators regarding student progress and classroom needs.
- Demonstrate flexibility by supporting the evolving instructional needs of the Lower School throughout the school year.
Requirements
- A laser focus on each student's academic, social-emotional, and personal growth.
- Demonstrated success in elementary classroom teaching.
- Strong classroom management skills and the ability to build positive learning environments.
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills.
- Collaborative, flexible, and proactive approach to teaching and problem-solving.
- Commitment to working in a multilingual, multicultural, and inclusive school community.
- Authorization to work in the United States or eligibility to obtain appropriate work authorization or visa sponsorship.
- Fingerprinting and criminal background check required for all prospective staff.
Skills
- Ability to teach effectively in both French and English
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- Exempt
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent required; advanced degree preferred.
Salary/Compensations
- $65,153-$110,975 based on experience and qualification.
About the Company
- The International School of San Francisco is a bilingual, multicultural learning community where students learn to navigate the complexities of the world with confidence, empathy, and joy.
- Our vibrant urban campus is situated in the heart of the city and serves nearly 1,100 students beginning at age 2 and continuing through grade 12.
- Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, The International School of San Francisco offers programs of study in French and English to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to communicate across cultures is of paramount importance.
- Working at The International School of San Francisco opens up a myriad of opportunities both personal and professional.
- When minds and cultures from around the world come together, boundless curiosity takes hold; faculty and staff benefit from that deep intellectual engagement and joyful discovery as we live out our values of respect, integrity, inclusion, collaboration, and curiosity.
- Each employee is both teacher and learner in our vibrant, multicultural, multilingual school community.
Equal Opportunity
- The International School of San Francisco is committed to providing an open, fair, inclusive, non-discriminatory environment for all individuals across differences of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, socio-economic status, ethnicity, age, physical ability, or medical condition.
- We seek to increase the presence, representation, and inclusion of U.S. historically under-represented people of color, international, bilingual, and bicultural students, faculty, and staff; and, to provide an environment that will attract and retain individuals identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and intersex (LGBTQQI).
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
