About This Role
This teaching post seeks a caring, outgoing, and transformative English as a Second Language Teacher. The role involves facilitating student success and growth in academic and interpersonal skills, collaborating with fellow teachers, and creating a flexible, safe learning environment. The ideal candidate will have experience teaching students of all ages, with a background in working with at-risk students and experiential learning.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate student success and growth in academic and interpersonal skills
- Collaborate and work with fellow teachers to provide the best growth and opportunities for students
- Create a flexible, safe learning environment that is conducive to individualized and small group learning
- Provide feedback to students, parents, and administration regarding student progress, expectations, and goals
- Document teaching and student progress, activities, and outcomes
- Understand and utilize district technologies to support learning for students
- Perform other responsibilities assigned by the supervisor
Requirements
- Thorough knowledge of standard office equipment and software
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, students, parents, and elected officials
- Ability to effectively use and implement technology in the classroom
- Ability to create an environment of respect and trust
- Ability to differentiate curriculum to a wide range of learners
- Proven skill in forming, building, and maintaining positive relationships
- Evidence of successful experiences with students at a range of ages
- Commitment to and evidence of continual improvement
- PELSB License: English as a Second Language
- 125 Continuing Education Units every five years
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of Infinite Campus and Educlimber
Important Details
Physical Requirements
- Occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds of force
- Regularly requires speaking or hearing
- Frequently requires standing, walking, sitting, and using hands to finger, handle, or feel
- Occasionally requires stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, pushing or pulling, and lifting
- Requires close vision and distance vision
- Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly
- Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound