Job Description

POSITION: EL Coordinator/Teacher

JOB TITLE: A-ELL Coord(S), JOB CODE: INST1045

LOCATION: Great Hearts Harveston, REPORTS TO: Head of School, EEO Classification: Professionals, FLSA STATUS Salaried-Exempt

JOB DESCRIPTION

The EL Coordinator/Teacher fulfills two essential roles in support of English Learners at Great Hearts Harveston:

Leading and Coordinating the EL program at Great Hearts Harveston

Providing language acquisition instruction to students who are English Learners such that they attain academic proficiency in English and can engage the Great Hearts curriculum and classical, liberal arts experience.

Responsibilities:

Coordinating: The EL Coordinator facilitates the identification and assessment of EL students, develops English Language Instructional Support Plans to support EL student language acquisition, and collaborates with and supports parents and teachers throughout the assessment, planning, instructional, and dismissal process.

Teaching: The EL Teacher supports students in acquiring English through the language development approach. EL Teachers create and lesson plans that target specific EL standards based on the student’s proficiency level and grade level and monitor their progress to promote their language acquisition.

Ongoing Tasks:

• Review EL roster and new enrollees identified as potential ELs through the home language survey
• Facilitate the ELPT screening and assessments at required times throughout the year
• Attend SBLC meetings, meetings with parents
• Communicate with parents regarding the EL program
• Develop EL Instructional Support Plans that will facilitate language acquisition and access to the general curriculum
• Create lesson plans aligned with EL standards
• Create and maintain a schedule for targeted instruction time with school administration and grade-level teachers
• Attend grade- or subject-level meetings to help plan integrated EL instruction
• Collaborate with grade-level teachers to determine students’ strengths and weaknesses for lesson planning
• Collaborate with grade-level teachers to identify and implement any accommodations necessary for the student to access the curriculum
• Monitor students’ progress through quarterly reports
• Participate in professional development opportunities

Personal Qualities and Values

Passionately Committed

With humility and curiosity, we seek to know more about our core purpose; seek to share (with each other and with others externally as an advocate); seek to live the mission ourselves with relentless pursuit and intrinsic motivation; seek to understand our work and how it serves the mission…which should result in getting the right stuff done with measurable results because we love actualization – not just the theory.

Servant’s Heart

The foundational element of having a servant’s heart is the acknowledgement of inherent dignity in their fellow human. Someone with a servant’s heart believes that their work is to promote the development of those around them and make it possible for others to be successful in serving the mission of the organization.

Team Player

We believe our mission can only be accomplished through collaboration and receive true joy in being a part of something greater than ourselves; Each of us is one part of a whole, each with different roles, expertise and responsibilities; working together in synchronicity.

Qualifications, Competencies & Strengths

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• Lousiana Teacher Certification
• ESL Certification for the grade levels served

Experience:

• Minimum one year of successful English Learner teaching and/or coordinating, preferably in Louisiana

Special Skills:

• Ability to prepare appropriate EL instructional support plans
• Knowledge of local, state and federal rules and regulations pertaining to English Learners
• Knowledge of Louisiana EL standards and connections to academic standards
• Basic computer skills
• Strong organization and communication (written and oral)
• Ability to work cooperatively with staff, students and parents

Additional Requirements

Employment is subject to passing a fingerprint criminal history check, from the State Bureau of Criminal Identification.

Physical functions: Requires but is not limited to standing, sitting, repetitious hand and body movements, bending, squatting, and reaching. May be required to move or position equipment up to 15 pounds approximately.

This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, it does not exclude or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

Great Hearts Academies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $48,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• ESL teaching and/or coordinating: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• Louisiana Teaching Certification (Required)
• ESL Certification (Required)

Work Location: In person

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