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ESL Early Years Specialist

ESL Early Years Specialist

Concordia International School Ningbo

Ningbo, China

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Full Time, Permanent
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7 July 2020

Job overview

As the ESL Early Years Specialist at Concordia International School, Ningbo you will apply the most effective teaching practices for children ages 3-5, based on pedagogical theory. The ESL Early Years Specialist creates, analyzes, and adapts lesson plans for this age group, and works with other teachers to foster an appropriate and fun teaching environment that maximizes student participation in the English language. 

The ESL Early Years specialist works with other teachers and alone to create learning experiences that are contextualized and part of a real event, such as a project or investigation, where the content is social, interesting, relevant and enjoyable. The learning experiences designed by the ESL Early Years Specialist creates learning opportunities that belong to the child and has purpose for the child; which builds upon the child’s intellect and also challenges the child, who is supported appropriately.  

The ESL specialist will co-support and co-design programs that are part of a coherent whole, multisensory, active and experiential, memorable, designed to provide for personal, divergent responses and multiple intelligences, offered in a relaxed and warm learning atmosphere and focused on meaning. 

You will deliver integrated language instruction with mainstream curriculum, use task-based, project-based, and content-based approaches to provide fun in the classroom, set up children for success and foster learner autonomy.  

The ESL Early Years specialist is expected to used technology appropriately and use a standards-based curriculum such as Cambridge English: Young Learners. All materials and curricula need to be culturally and linguistically appropriate. 

You will be willing to learn about local and national culture and cultures of other countries. You will be committed to help children develop intercultural competence and grow in understanding of their own culture. Teachers who educate students on English as a second language need to be insightful and sensitive as well as aware of the multiculturalism in their classroom and beyond.  

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES: 

ESL teachers at the elementary level are focused on teaching young language learners to use English in a variety of settings. They may: 

  • Be involved in co-teaching with other preschool and primary teachers 
  • Teach English for a variety of social settings 
  • Teach students to use effective learning strategies 
  • Teach word classes, grammar structures and how to use language for different functions 
  • Teach vocabulary: key concepts, word formation and combining words 
  • Teach Pronunciation: key concepts, word and sentence stress, connected speech and intonation. 
  • Teach children to read English with both fluency and comprehension 
  • Develop young learners listening, speaking reading and writing skills in the primary classroom 
  • Develop materials and resources, implement, support and/or lead in the production and improvement of curriculum planning as appropriate, and undertake other academic project work as directed.  
  • Assist with project-based teaching while integrating skills. 
  • Manage intercultural differences in the classroom. 
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of the primary ESL learner 
  • Plan lessons and a program of work. 
  • Provide formative and summative assessments of language learning in the primary context 
  • Employ appropriate instructional strategies for preschool and primary learners 
  • Be empathetic to a student's migration experience and its stressors 
  • Be aware of the level of development in a student's first language and how this may impact ESL learning 
  • Be aware of student's prior experiences with English and English-speaking culture 
  • Provide extracurricular and in-classroom opportunities for English interaction 
  • Evaluate student's English comprehension and listening strategies, model more sophisticated strategies as students skills progress 
  • Accommodate 1-2-1 tuition where necessary 
  • Maintain current lesson plans, assessment data (i.e., grades), and attendance records using a defined school-sanctioned electronic interface. 
  • Attend academic, departmental, and school meetings when required, and attend/deliver professional development sessions as directed.   
  • Supervise and accompany students on excursions, as appropriate, ensuring their safety and welfare at all times.   
  • Participating as a member of the faculty on school committees and professional association activities. 
  • Address and respond to student issues/emergencies as needed.  
  • Be aware of your responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons you are responsible for/come into contact with during your employment and be fully aware of the School Safeguarding Policy.  
  • Any other duties that are deemed necessary by the principal as part of your work 

QUALIFICATIONS: 

  • Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) from an accredited college/university  
  • CELTA/Trinity/TESOL II 
  • CELT-P (Cambridge English Language Teaching – Primary) or other Young Learners Certification  
  • 3 years’ experience teaching learners of preschool and age 
  • Working within a diverse environment of international learners and their parents 
  • Excellent oral and writing skills  
  • Capacity for prioritizing conflicting demands 
  • Intercultural competence 
  • Ability to gather facts and to analyze situations objectively, accurately, and in an organized fashion 
  • Demonstrates good critical thinking skills  
  • Attentive to deadlines  
  • Flexible and adaptable 
  • Basic computer literacy   
  • Supports the aims, objectives, goals, ethos, and mission of the school

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About Concordia International School Ningbo

Why work for Concordia International School Ningbo ?

With the advent of the age of artificial intelligence, mechanical automation and increasingly advanced biotechnology have brought great convenience to human work and life, and have triggered Concordia's thinking about the future of education. How does the new technological revolution essentially affect education now and even in the future? Can the educational wisdom we have accumulated lead today's students to adapt to and even create the future they desire? Concordia's answer is that whole-person education that conforms to the laws of human growth is still the most likely path to success, which is expressed in Concordia's philosophy: Harmony and Difference, Harmony for Prosperity.

About Concordia School Ningbo

Relying on the Concordia Global Education Community, which has global influence and a long history of development, and as a supporting project of Ningbo's "3315 Talent Program", Concordia School Ningbo is based on the principle of "Harmony and Difference, Harmony for the Future". Concordia School Ningbo (CSN) and Concordia International School Ningbo (CISN) are established under the motto of "Harmony and Difference, Harmony for Prosperity". The two schools are distinctive in their philosophies, curricula, and teaching staff, providing diverse, profound, dynamic, and life-affirming whole-person education programs for families with different needs, and nurturing new generations who are inquisitive, knowledgeable, caring, and who have made lifelong learning a lifelong pursuit. At the same time, the two schools share cutting-edge educational resources, integrate Chinese and foreign cultures, and work together to form a vibrant, inclusive, multicultural community of Concordia learners. We believe that the forms of a vital education can be varied, but the commonalities embodied in the inherent spirit as well as in the practice far outweigh the differences.

Make a difference where it matters most

At Concordia, we build environments that stimulate student learning, plan rigorous and dynamic curricula, design rich and personalized teaching and learning activities that promote curiosity and creativity, and guide students to become their best selves in terms of academic competence and personality development. Our students enjoy learning, take ownership of their learning, apply what they learn, and collaborate and grow with their peers and teachers.

At Concordia, our teachers tailor their teaching to students' abilities and interests, and set up authentic teaching situations to provide students with opportunities to explore their interests, utilize their creativity, and challenge themselves. Through teaching and learning by example, teachers build a bond of mutual respect, trust and care with their students, care for their physical and mental health, support their students in developing their identity and extend it to others, and build a partnership with their students to make progress together.

Take your career in your own direction

At Concordia, the school administration, teachers, students, and parents work together to create an inclusive culture that respects and celebrates diversity. Each member of the school community collaborates with each other and takes different actions to fulfill and support the school's vision and mission. Concordia believes that every Concordia educator is able to retain his or her unique individuality within the Concordia community of learners, while tapping into the commonalities in collaboration with others, and that harmony and diversity are the key to success.

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