Language teacher career description

Language teacher career description

In this post, you can ref career description of Language teacher in details. A complete career description concludes Language teacher key duties/responsibilities, Language teacher career qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of Language teacher duties:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Utilizing a variety of instructional methodologies and curriculum resources geared specifically towards ELL students.
4. Working as a team member, sharing common planning, professional development, curriculum design, and teaching responsibilities.
5. Prioritizing the instruction of English Language Learners in English Acquisition.
6. 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.
7. Facilitating and participating in Transition meetings for students who meet the minimum expectations for leaving ELL services.
8. Attending school based meetings, as needed and pertinent English Language Learner professional development sessions.
9. Completing necessary paperwork regarding the identification, progress monitoring and transitioning of English Language Learners in each school.
10. 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.
11. Providing support and sharing information with school staff on ESL/ELL matters.

II. List of Language teacher qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree and MA Teacher Certification in English as a Second Language required
2. Must have appropriate credentials such as valid teaching certification and be highly qualified as designated by the State DOE
3. Must demonstrate competency in all areas of content responsibility and be computer literate
4. Must have experience with standardized testing and interpreting data

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