Open Teaching Positions

The German Saturday School Boston, the oldest language school in Massachusetts and one of the largest German Saturday Schools in the United States, invites applications for middle and high school teaching positions for the 2008/09 school year. We’re looking for applicants with the following background:
 

  • native fluency in German
  • a teaching degree along with teaching experience
  • a flexible and enthusiastic personality

 
Classes take place on approx. 30 Saturdays from September through May from 9:30am to 12:30pm at the BU College of General Studies on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Some afternoon attendance for faculty meetings is required.
 
Our faculty consists of about 25 teachers who share the love for the German language and teaching children of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Our curriculum is designed to enable students to actively communicate in German by giving them a strong foundation in understanding German, building their vocabulary, speaking, reading and writing. German is the primary language of instruction in all grades. Find out more about our program here. Our school currently teaches more than 290 students from pre-K through 11th Grade. We offer our older students to take internationally recognized standardized tests – from the basic A2 Sprachdiplom through the advanced B1 anc C1 exams for those students who perform at the highest language proficiency level.
 
Candidates should contact the principal as soon as possible via our contact form.