Lower School Bilingual Teaching Associate (2024-2025)

*WELCOME!* Join the vibrant community at the Chinese American International School's new Forever Home campus on 19th Avenue as a bilingual teaching associate.
Become part of a team striving to be the world’s most innovative, inspiring, and influential Mandarin-English dual-language immersion school.
As a distinctive aspect of your work at CAIS, you will also help students navigate their way in a bilingual and bicultural school setting, guiding them to hone global skills and competencies and prepare to make a difference in the world around them.
*OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE* The ideal candidate finds resonance with CAIS’s mission to Embrace Chinese, Become Our Best Selves, and Contribute to a Better World; our Core Values of Courage, Curiosity, Inclusion, Kindness, and Perseverance; and our Strategic Vision 2020-2025 to Reimagine CAIS, Reimagine Success.
As CAIS aims to empower independent, effective, and inspired learners, we look for a candidate who seeks to become proficient in student-centered pedagogy such as differentiation, use of assessment to inform teaching, and Workshop-based instruction.
The candidate will enter an environment that values social emotional learning alongside academic challenge.
Teaching Associates are mentored by and coordinate student learning with an experienced classroom lead teacher.
CAIS offers a dynamic dual culture setting in which faculty are immersed in a culture of language learners.
We look for a candidate who will embrace CAIS’s work to create an equitable, inclusive environment where all faculty, students, and families are supported in their individual identities.
We welcome all applicants who aim to actively support and participate in our diverse and inclusive community.
*ESSENTIAL DUTIES* Position responsibilities include (but are not limited to): ● Develop a positive intellectual, emotional, and social environment within the classroom and a class community in which all children feel valued and a sense of belonging ● Encompass a positive discipline approach in guiding student behavior ● Work collaboratively and maintain standards of respect, courtesy, and mutual consideration with the school community, including students, staff, and parents ● In coordination with the lead teacher, plan and implement engaging learning experiences in alignment with the curriculum for individual, small and large group activities ● Assist in the daily operations of the classroom ● Meet the varied needs of children in the classroom by scaffolding and extending classroom lessons ● Provide for the physical safety of children ● Support the daily operations of the school by assisting with arrival and drop-off ● Actively supervise students during lunch and/or recess times ● Attend required meetings ● Substitute for the teacher by independently leading the class ● Keep current in pedagogical thinking, strategies and techniques ● Demonstrate an affirming attitude toward the school, a willingness to receive feedback, and professional demeanor and integrity *ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS* ● Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred ● Bilinguality in Mandarin and English (OPI level Advanced-Low with non-native language) ● Experience working with children ● Desire to develop as an educator ● Commitment to meeting the needs of individual learners and promoting social and emotional development ● Commitment to school mission, policies, and initiatives *VALUED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE* We value, but do not require, the following attributes: ● Personal experience with second language acquisition ● Training or experience in elementary classrooms preferred ● College coursework in education BENEFITS The CAIS Board of Trustees and administration are expressly dedicated to ensuring that CAIS is a great place to work.
The school is committed to attracting, developing, retaining, and rewarding top-tier faculty and excellent educators with a strong benefits package.
CAIS has an established salary scale that recognizes experience and other qualifications including (but not limited to) education and training, leadership, and bilinguality.
The salary range for this position is: $21.
00- $25.
53 per hour.
Please see the final page for a description of benefits.
*ABOUT CAIS* As the nation’s first Mandarin Immersion Preschool through 8th grade school, CAIS embodies our mission by working continuously to maintain our role as a leader in immersion education.
We value honest self-assessment, thoughtful self-reflection, intentional planning, and focused implementation.
We are known as an ambitious school, and we are making substantial progress on our multi-year vision to reimagine immersion, reimagine our culture of learning, reimagine character and community, and reimagine our learning spaces.
Since 2021, we have been using our new campus on 19th Avenue in San Francisco for athletics, arts, and community events.
In September 2024, our entire community will begin the school year at our newly renovated Forever Home, which more than doubles our program space from our Hayes Valley locations and allows all divisions to be together on one spectacular campus.
*TO APPLY* CAIS’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is central to our mission.
People of color and LGBTQIA candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Email cover letter, resume, and list of references to lower\_school\_jobs@cais.
org, attention Kimberly Kaz.
In the subject line please indicate: “LS Bilingual Teaching Associate.
” Please no calls.
Job Type: Full-time Pay: $21.
00 - $25.
53 per hour Benefits: * 401(k) * Dental insurance * Health insurance * Life insurance * Paid time off * Professional development assistance * Retirement plan * Vision insurance Grade levels: * 1st grade * 2nd grade * 3rd grade * 4th grade * 5th grade Schedule: * Monday to Friday School subjects: * Foreign Language School type: * Private school Ability to Relocate: * San Francisco, CA 94132: Relocate before starting work (Required) Work Location: In person