Albuquerque Public Schools
Bilingual 1st Grade Teacher
Cien Aguas International is currently seeking to fill their open Bilingual 1st Grade Teacher position.
Job Overview
- Posting Date: March 31, 2025 - Closing Date: open until filled
- Salary Range: $58,000-85,000
- Job Description or School Website
Job Description
Cien Aguas International School seeks a full-time, highly qualified Elementary School Teacher for a 90/10 Dual Language school. Candidates must be bilingual and bi-literate in both English and Spanish. The position is available for the 2025-2026 school year.
License Requirements: Current NMPED Elementary Teaching license with endorsements in Bilingual and TESOL required. Bilingual and biliterate in Spanish.
GLAD, TESOL, EL training preferred.
Duties and Responsibilities
*Contributes to student learning, growth, and advancement.
*Demonstrates academic competence in subject area(s), and displays an inclination for developing integrated and interdisciplinary work across the curriculum.
*Maintains a growth mindset toward student learning, teaching practice, and personal/collective professional development.
*Demonstrates a high degree of self-efficacy; holds themselves accountable for learner outcomes and advocates for their students; works efficiently; and believes in their ability, the capability of their students, and themselves to succeed and excel.
*Facilitates problem-solving, with a curious mind and critical thinking skills, showing a high degree of creative application in the implementation of data-driven curriculum and practice.
*Serves as a role model and an innovative and creative learner with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, personal growth, and being on the cutting edge of instructional practice and pedagogy.
*Collaborates effectively with a variety of stakeholder groups within the organization and with external partners to increase student performance and contribute to advancing the teaching and learning craft.
*Looks beyond the walls of the classroom and demonstrates global competence and how their work will expand the impact of students' work to their families and local and global communities.
*Invests in the learners' well-being, health, and safety, physically, socially, and emotionally.
*Recognizes the relationship between social-emotional learning and academic performance, and aspires toward developing and teaching the whole child.
*Designs and facilitates differentiated and personalized learning goals and activities that follow a coherent sequence, are aligned to instructional goals, and engage students in high-level cognitive activity.
*Be active in the school community and events
*Collaborates with the grade level department to develop/maintain units of study.
Implement the grade level’s and school’s curriculum.
*Designing, developing, and delivering quality lesson plans and curricula that adhere to national and school guidelines.
*Drawing up suitable assessments and delivering helpful feedback to students, parents, and other teachers.
*Establishing classroom, and field trip rules and regulations and ensuring that all students understand what is expected of them.
*Setting up demonstrations, guest speakers, and experiences, and assisting and supervising students while they conduct research and experiments.
*Providing extra resources, differentiation, support, and interventions for students who are struggling.
*Ensuring all permission slips are signed in a timely manner and acting as a field trip chaperone when required.
*Grading papers, updating records, and handling various administrative tasks.
*Creating an environment where students feel comfortable asking questions and voicing concerns.
*Assisting with the recruitment and training of all new teachers and providing support to student teachers.
*Participating in other school activities and regularly communicating with parents.
Maintain/update the grade level’s units.
Required Skills
License Requirements: Current NMPED Elementary Teaching license with endorsements in Bilingual and TESOL required. Bilingual and biliterate in Spanish.
GLAD, TESOL, EL training preferred.
Benefit Information
Dental insurance Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Professional development assistance Retirement plan Vision insurance
Application Process
Apply through link on website on Indeed or directly through Indeed
Contact Information
Tonya Troske, Assistant Director, Email: ttroske@cienaguas.org