Japanese Teacher

POSITION TITLE: Japanese Teacher
SUPERVISED BY: Assistant Principal for Academics
FLSA STATUS: Full-time
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 1, 2025
COMPENSATION: $69,626 - $109,376 per year

Position Summary
This is a 5/5 (100% FTE) position, teaching Japanese

Responsibilities and Duties

• Model Lasallian/Vincentian charisms;

• Support SHC’s mission, philosophy and Integral Student Outcomes;

• In collaboration with World Language Department colleagues, and per department goals (see https://www.shcp.edu/academics/category/world-language):

• Following the National Standards for Foreign Language Education, facilitate development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Japanese;

• Encourage students to gain experiential knowledge of other cultures, make connections across disciplines, explore the natures of language and culture by comparisons with their native language and culture, and actively participate in bilingual communities, beginning with the World Language classroom;

• Design and implement standards-based learning to facilitate critical thinking and mastery of essential skills and understandings as determined by the level learning team;

• Provide regular and varied formative and summative assessments to demonstrate achievement and to facilitate students’ ability to understand their progress toward learning targets;

• Maintain an engaging and constructive learning environment, in both physical and virtual learning spaces;

• Communicate consistently with students, parents, and school personnel;

• Keep current and complete electronic grading and attendance records;

• Collaborate in the school’s cocurricular activities, service learning, and retreat programs;

• Engage in professional development, especially our four-year New Faculty Professional Development and Support Program, becoming a reflective and growth-minded practitioner who integrates best and next teaching practices rooted in the SHC mission;

• Actively participate in SHC’s strategic initiatives to strengthen meaningful diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices, especially strategies to support equitable learning, culturally responsive teaching, social emotional learning, and universal design for learning;

• Strengthen the mission of SHC and the charisms of the Daughters of Charity and De La Salle Christian Brothers and Department of Catholic Schools through their formational programs.