ESOL Instructor (Part-Time) - Sumter Adult Ed

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above
• Valid South Carolina teacher's certificate
• ESOL add-on endorsement or extensive course work in ESOL is preferred

Performance Responsibilities

• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher
• Affords assistance to the ESOL teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
• Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by teacher
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the ESOL teacher
• Guides students with group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and conversing
• Supervises testing, homework and make-up work, as assigned by the classroom teacher
• Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students
• Guides students to increase their oral and written communication skills
• Alerts the principal to any problem or special information about an individual student
• Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the ESOL teacher
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers
• Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned
• Utilizes effective classroom management strategies to create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and developmentally appropriate for students
• Strives to implement by instruction and action the District's philosophy of education and instructional goals and objectives
• Takes all the necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials and facilities
• Maintains accurate, complete and correct records as required by law, District policy, and administrative regulation

Evaluation

• Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provision of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel

Terms

• 190 days

Pay and Schedule

• Salary and work year to be established by the Board