French teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for French teacher in details. A complete job description concludes French teacher key duties/responsibilities, French teacher job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

                                        

I. List of French teacher duties:

1. Create syllabi for each of the four courses assigned
2. Plan with other members of the department for sequential curricula, with each year’s course of study building upon previous year’s work and building toward the following year’s work
3. Plan, initiate and guide the study of units of study in French which involve speaking, listening, writing, and reading
4. Create assessments (including comprehensive semester exams), evaluate those assessments, and promptly grade those assessments and each student’s other work (assignments, presentations, etc.)
5. Keep current each student’s attendance and grades on FAWeb
6. Foster thought, discussion, reading comprehension, linguistic analysis, a consistent work ethic, French skills, and a desire for learning and excellence
7. Communicate regularly and constructively with peers, administrators, students, and parents
8. Contribute to the total upper school program
9. Contribute to the Foreign Language Department in its deliberations and collaborative efforts
10. Employees are held to the highest standards of professionalism, collegiality, and personal conduct
11. Comply with conditions as stated in employee handbook
12. Meet deadlines on time
13. Fulfill other duties as assigned
14. Be punctual and reliable in attendance

II. List of French teacher qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree or graduate degree (preferred) in French or French Education
2. Keen interest in guiding, nurturing, and inspiring adolescents
3. Exemplary role model
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
5. Effective time-manager
6. Proficient in the use of computer applications as required
7. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently
8. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.