UPPER SCHOOL FRENCH TEACHER

We are looking for skilled and collaborative educators with the passion, commitment, and ability to help each of our students learn deeply and feel seen, heard, and valued.  
The ideal candidate for any teaching position at Hawken School Upper School:
  • Builds strong, supportive relationships with students and colleagues
  • Thrives on a team
  • Leans into all opportunities to collaborate with colleagues (and with students)
  • Is reflective and thoughtful about their practice, seeks feedback, and is excited to grow as a teacher and curriculum designer
  • Designs and facilitates learning in a way that supports students with learning deeply and sharing their learning through high-quality work
  • Has experience working in a diverse community and is committed to the ideals of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice
  • Creates learning experiences for and with students that students remember
THE POSITION
Hawken School is seeking a full-time French teacher for the 2024-2025 school year. The ideal candidate would be experienced in a language-acquisition, proficiency-based approach with knowledge of (or a hunger to learn more about) methodologies such as: Comprehensible Input, Project-Based Learning, Personalized Learning, and Inquiry-Based Learning. We currently offer 5 levels of French (including AP French Language and Culture). The school also offers three-week Intensive courses in which students engage in authentic learning in Northeast Ohio and abroad, including travel to France. The ideal candidate will be comfortable teaching at all levels and excited to co-design interdisciplinary learning opportunities with students and colleagues. 
 
The essential duties/responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following: 
  • Teach 4-5 sections of French ranging from level 1 to level 5 or other subjects of expertise
  • Actively participate in re-envisioning curricula along with other members of the Modern and Classical Languages Department
  • Plan, organize, and lead student educational exchange or service-learning opportunities in French-speaking parts of the world (the ideal candidate would be able and willing to travel every 2-3 years)
  • Assist with planning for exchange groups from France
  • Be available during office hours to offer extra help in subject areas of expertise
  • Engage meaningfully in extracurricular activities in and out of the department
  • Advise a group of 8-10 students, overseeing their academic and social growth
  • Utilize feedback-based assessment
  • Perform other non-teaching duties as assigned by the Upper School Director or Head of School
Because Hawken believes in supporting teachers’ passions, in deepening their expertise, and in fueling their spirit of innovation, we provide substantive professional development opportunities that lead to the kinds of excellence that are a hallmark of our community.

QUALIFICATIONS 
  • An undergraduate degree in French or similar degree; an advanced degree with at least three years of experience is preferred
  • Native or near-native fluency in French is required
  • Enthusiasm, flexibility, and a team spirit necessary for curricular collaboration and innovation
  • A deep understanding of adolescence and a passion for working with teenagers as they engage the complex issues of today’s world
  • A passion for creatively designing unique programing within our department and across disciplines to support curriculum that encompasses interdisciplinary approaches, diverse and inclusive perspectives, and experiential opportunities in and out of the classroom
  • A continuous commitment to improve teaching proficiency, particularly with technology as applied to best practices in education
THE SCHOOL 
Founded on the ideal that “the better self shall prevail and each generation introduce its successor to a higher plane of life,” Hawken School is a coeducational independent day school with 1,550 students from toddler through grade 12. Our four campuses are located within 25 minutes of downtown Cleveland, with two campuses in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, a campus on Cleveland’s west side, and a campus in University Circle, home to the Mastery School of Hawken and also our school-wide center for experiential and service learning. A nationally recognized leader in innovative programming, Hawken prepares students to meet the challenges of tomorrow's world.
This position is for our Upper School, located in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland and situated on over 300 acres featuring sprawling lawns, wooded trails, and both modern and historic buildings. To execute the school’s forward-focused missions, Stirn Hall—Hawken’s state-of-the-art academic building—offers expansive classroom space and common spaces, fabrication and media labs, a science wing, a learning commons, a writing center, and more. The adjacent building known as the White House serves as the primary dining facility at Hawken’s Gates Mills campus and is a stunning reminder of Hawken’s historic charm.
The Gates Mills campus also features an expansive athletic complex that includes two gymnasiums, one of the best competitive swimming pools in Ohio, a weight room, and a wrestling room. Surrounding grounds include eight tennis courts, a stadium, a track, artificial turf fields, and a high and low ropes course with 15 separate challenges.
To learn more about us, visit www.hawken.edu.

INTERESTED?
Please send a resume, references, and a cover letter to Matt Simon at: upperschoolemployment@hawken.edu.

Hawken School is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to promoting all forms of diversity in the workplace and in our student body. We strongly urge all qualified individuals to apply.
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An independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school, toddler through grade 12

Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135 
Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
Gries Center, 10823 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106

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