Teacher - English Language Learners

Essential Job Functions

• Serves as a resource on ESL-related matters for teachers, school administrators, instructional personnel, parents and others.
• Affords appropriate assistance regarding teaching second language learners to mainstream classroom teachers.
• Instructs students in English emphasizing the acquisition of listening, speaking, reading, grammar, vocabulary acquisition and writing skills.
• Evaluates student performance in English for placement at the various levels of ESL instruction.
• Regularly reviews testing materials to help correlate results with instruction.
• Affords assistance in coordinating testing for and exemption from state mandated tests (SOL tests) for ESL students.
• Affords assistance in coordinating referrals of ESL students for special placements; confers with personnel in early childhood services and special education for continued collaboration; affords assistance with IEP and/or child study teams as requested by building principals and special education staff for ESL referred students.
• Affords assistance in securing translators when possible for conferences, presentations and written translations.
• Affords communication with parents at all times.
• Affords regular communication with the ESL Liaisons, principals and other ESL teachers via e-mail and telephone in order to optimize effectiveness of service.
• Affords supervision of the instructional aides in the program (elementary level ESL teachers), makes lesson plans and gives direction for their work with ESL students.
• Affords supervision of students in non-classroom time (before & after school, student activities, fire drills).
• Affords regular communication with parents.
• Affords demonstration of commitment to improving professional competence.
• Affords assessment of student learning on an ongoing basis and alters instruction to meet group/individual needs.
• Affords use of the curriculum of the district to plan daily instructional activities.
• Affords performance of other work as assigned.
• Affords meeting and instructing the students(s) in the locations and at the time designated.

Qualifications

• Considerable knowledge of the regulations and policies related to English as a Second Language and of the concepts, principles and methodologies of ESL instruction.
• Working knowledge of current curriculum development, program implementation, learning theory and recent research in ESL.
• Working skill in the use of technology to deliver and assess instruction.
• Demonstrated ability to develop instructional goals to design and deliver instruction and to assess students' learning.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, schedule and monitor work assignments; to train and advise teaching staff regarding ESL students; to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
• Demonstrated ability in decision making, problem analysis, conflict resolution, interpersonal relationships and planning.