Teacher - Secondary - French Language

Chesterfield County Public Schools; United States; On-site; USD 57,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Chesterfield County Public Schools is seeking a dedicated World Language teacher to join our team for the 2026-27 school year. You will plan and deliver French instruction aligned with Virginia standards and ACTFL frameworks, integrating culture and literature while developing speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills 90% of the time.

You will assess student progress, collaborate with colleagues, communicate with families, and participate in district professional development.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of the concepts, principles and methodologies of instruction.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with others effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Demonstrated ability to develop instructional goals to design and deliver instruction and to assess students' learning.
• Demonstrated ability in decision making, problem analysis, conflict resolution, interpersonal relationships and planning.

Responsibilities

• Plans and delivers world language curriculum content to students.
• Plans, teaches and assesses.
• Assesses student learning on an ongoing basis and alters instruction to meet group/individual needs.
• Uses the curriculum of the district to plan daily instructional activities.
• Maintains order within the classroom setting in accordance with division guidelines regarding student behavior management.
• Supervises students in non-classroom time (before school, after school, student activities, fire drills).
• Collaborates with other faculty in planning and delivering instruction to students.
• Communicates regularly with parents.
• Ensures compliance with existing applicable federal and state statutes and local policies, regulations and guidelines related to public schools.
• Demonstrates commitment to improving professional competence.
• Uses the curriculum of the district to plan daily instructional PBL activities.
• Engages in the planning and delivery of language specific district events throughout the school year.
• Participates in district professional development and curriculum design.
• Promotes authentic student experiences by engaging with school partnerships abroad.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Communicate effectively

Instructional goals

Decision making & problem analysis

Interpersonal relationships

Education

Bachelor's degree

Virginia teaching license (French endorsement)

Job description

Our outstanding teachers, support staff members and leaders are top-notch educators whom others seek to emulate, and quite simply - we would like for you to consider joining us.

General Description: This is for the 2026-27 school year. Plans, delivers and evaluates instruction based upon specific VDOE Foreign Language standards, the ACTFL framework and objectives established by CCPS. Integrates classroom content into daily lesson plans. Assists students in learning knowledge and skills that will contribute to their development as mature, able and responsible citizens. Exposes and engages students with specified world language literature, history and culture of the target language. Provides instruction in speaking, reading, writing and understanding the world language, as well as lessons in the world language literature and culture using the target language at least 90% of the time. The emphasis is on developing language proficiency in the interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational language modes. Integrates students' use of technology as appropriate.

Essential Job Functions

• Plans and delivers world language curriculum content to students.
• Plans, teaches and assesses.
• Assesses student learning on an ongoing basis and alters instruction to meet group/individual needs.
• Uses the curriculum of the district to plan daily instructional activities.
• Maintains order within the classroom setting in accordance with division guidelines regarding student behavior management.
• Supervises students in non-classroom time (before school, after school, student activities, fire drills).
• Collaborates with other faculty in planning and delivering instruction to students.
• Communicates regularly with parents.
• Ensures compliance with existing applicable federal and state statutes and local policies, regulations and guidelines related to public schools.
• Demonstrates commitment to improving professional competence.
• Uses the curriculum of the district to plan daily instructional PBL activities.
• Engages in the planning and delivery of language specific district events throughout the school year.
• Participates in district professional development and curriculum design.
• Promotes authentic student experiences by engaging with school partnerships abroad.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Budgetary Responsibility

• Report Preparation: NA
• Equipment Operation: Operation of computer, LCD and copy machine

Contacts

• Teachers, regular classroom and instructional assistants - daily, Building Administrator and parents - regularly

Work Direction

• NA

Supervision

• NA

Decision Making

• Performs majority of functions independently.

Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities

• NA

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to lift, support, handle or feel objects, tools, equipment and/or controls; reach with hands and arms and talk and hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, sit, climb or balance and stoop or kneel. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close and distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

Work is performed in a public school. The noise level is moderate.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of the concepts, principles and methodologies of instruction.
• Working knowledge of academic curriculum for assigned classes.
• Demonstrated ability to develop instructional goals to design and deliver instruction and to assess students' learning.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with others effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Demonstrated ability in decision making, problem analysis, conflict resolution, interpersonal relationships and planning.

Additional Job Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.

Must hold or be eligible for a Virginia teaching license with an endorsement in French.

Applicants considered for employment must successfully complete the following background investigations/tests:

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal History Investigation
• State Police Criminal History Investigation
• Child Protective Services (CPS) Investigation
• Tuberculosis Screening/Test

Compensation $57,226.69 - $87,774.05 Hours Per Day 8 Days Per Year 200

Benefits

Chesterfield County Public Schools offers a wide variety of benefits to employees. Benefit offerings may differ based upon full-time and part-time employee status. Chesterfield County Public Schools assures Equal Employment Opportunities for employees as required by Federal and State Orders and Laws. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks. This job description is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements. However, administration reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and assign other duties as necessary. It is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position and does not imply an employment contract. As one of the largest and most innovative school divisions in the nation, Chesterfield County Public Schools is committed to creating a better tomorrow through authentic and captivating learning experiences. With work guided by the values of equity, integrity, teamwork and ingenuity, we believe that a better tomorrow is created one student at a time. Through our strategic plan, Imagine Tomorrow, our focus is to create an infinite learner mindset while encouraging students and staff to exemplify personal responsibility and supportive relationships. We think our schools are pretty amazing, but we aren't the only ones. Our award-winning school division - which includes six National Blue Ribbon Schools, seven National Title I Distinguished Schools and six Middle Schools to Watch - is often cited as the reason people choose to live and work here. Educators from outside of our school division routinely visit our nationally-recognized schools to learn more about what we are doing, how we are doing it and why we are doing it. Our outstanding teachers, support staff members and leaders are top-notch educators whom others seek to emulate, and quite simply - we would like for you to consider joining us. You have a choice to make, and we would like for you to choose Chesterfield.