Language arts teacher activities
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Language arts teacher activities
In this post, you
can ref key activities of Language arts teacher in details. Based on
this activity list, you can set up daily activities, weekly activities, monthly
activities.
I. List of Language
arts teacher duties:
- Planning, developing and implementing instructional activities which promote the use of English literacy for academic achievement in the content areas, and the use of English in culturally and socially appropriate ways.
- Communicating knowledge and skills to ESL/ELL students in an interesting, stimulating and effective manner in conjunction with the classroom teacher and appropriately tailoring instruction so that students will be able to effectively participate in the English Language arts curriculum.
- Utilizing a variety of instructional methodologies and curriculum resources geared specifically towards ELL students.
- Working as a team member, sharing common planning, professional development, curriculum design, and teaching responsibilities.
- Prioritizing the instruction of English Language Learners in English Acquisition.
- Administering different forms of student assessments and planning instruction for students based on the data from the assessments. Specifically, understanding the English Language Proficiency benchmarks and outcomes in order to distinguish between the expected benchmarks for students at each level of English Acquisition: Beginner, Early Intermediate, Intermediate and Transitioning.
- Facilitating and participating in Transition meetings for students who meet the minimum expectations for leaving ELL services.
- Attending school based meetings, as needed and pertinent English Language Learner professional development sessions.
- Completing necessary paperwork regarding the identification, progress monitoring and transitioning of English Language Learners in each school.
- Ensuring the progress of ELL students regularly receiving instruction improves on the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment, when compared to the score from the previous Spring, or the previous Fall, if the student was new.
- Providing support and sharing information with school staff on ESL/ELL matters.
II. List of Language
arts teacher qualifications
- Bachelor Degree in Education or related discipline (i.e. Social Science, English/Language Arts, Humanities, Math, Science).
- Minimum 2 years in a self contained classroom preferred
- MUST be State certified in BOTH ELA & Social Studies and deemed Highly Qualified by the Department of Education.
- MUST demonstrate competency in all areas of content responsibility and be computer literate.
- MUST have experience working with youth in an urban/inner city.
- Preference will be given to those with a proven track record of academic improvement supported by recent data.
