Limited Term Content and Curriculum Specialist – Spanish

As a SpanishContent Specialist within the Content Development Services team, you will work as both a content and assessment expert to develop K-12 assessments for our state clients. Our team develops standards-based assessments for students. We collaborate with education departments, committees of educators, and business partners to develop assessments of learning that are accessible to all students. We are looking for flexible and creative content expert to join our team.

Responsibilities:

Develop and review Spanish test items and stimuli, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, cluster sets, and performance-based tasks across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments Help develop Spanish item, passage, and test specifications, item development plans, test blueprints, and other ancillary documents Help select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop Spanish items based on standards, cognitive complexity, and item development best practices Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide social studies assessment expertise Facilitate activities related to test construction and review of composed test forms Consult with the customer as required, including participation in planning, status, review meetings, etc. Develop, revise, and adapt Spanish curriculum materials. Work closely with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups Perform other duties as assigned Some travel required

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. 

Qualifications:

Master's degree in Spanish, Education, Creative Writing, Humanities, or equivalent experience preferred. Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary Spanish teacher preferred Professional knowledge of Spanish and educational trends required  Knowledgeable about the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) Spanish Content Standards as well as the PRDE curriculum tools used by teachers in the classroom.  Some experience in large-scale educational measurement preferred General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments preferred Outstanding oral and written communication skills Ability to creatively and flexibly address challenges with a variety of audiences Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills and the ability to work on multiple activities and adapt to unexpected events Ability to deliver trainings to teachers and to facilitate customer meetings Skill in basic software tools and technology and the confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs