ELL (English Language Learner) Teacher

ELL teacher plays a crucial role in developing a student oral and written communication skills, like writing formal letters, reports, speeches, poetry and short stories. They teach sentence structure, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and literature of the language. Some teachers may also be a part of the administration in the institute where they conduct classes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Planning and Preparation for Learning

Design, plan, and implement English instruction for ELL students

Monitor and assess student progress

Utilize a variety of teaching strategies and techniques to maximize student learning

Collaborate with other teachers and staff to develop language programs

Provide support and guidance to ELL students

Develop lesson plans and materials to meet individual student needs

Facilitate parent and community involvement

Participate in staff development activities

provide support and guidance to ELL students and collaborate with other teachers and staff to create a positive learning environment

Direct, specific, consistent and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations

Shows warmth, caring, respect and fairness for all scholars and builds strong relationships

Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that scholars maintain them throughout the year

Classroom expectations are posted in the classroom and continually referred to on a daily basis

Utilizes visuals for class and/or individual schedule as needed

Collects data on classroom and or individual behavior

Gets all scholars to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their actions, and have a strong sense of efficacy

Alert, poised, dynamic and self-assured and nips virtually all discipline problems in the bud

Identifies potential reasons of the occurrence behaviors and can match interventions to increase or decrease a given behavior Delivery of instruction

Offer various co-teaching models to teachers to help facilitate success for all scholars

Groupings to involve and motivate all scholars

Gets all scholars highly involved in focused work in which they are active learners and problem-solvers.

Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Lessons entail a variety of materials to address learner variability

Accommodations are evident for those scholars

Ability to meet each scholar at their specific level if need Family and Community Outreach

Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families’ cultures, diverse abilities, and values.

Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child’s ability to reach standards.

Gives parents clear, objective expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year.

Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning areas of growth, and also updates parents on good news. Professional Responsibilities

Advocate for the scholars by informing professionals of accommodations and best fit interventions for success

Designs each lesson with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and unit outcomes.

Seeks out effective teaching ideas from colleagues, workshops, and other sources and implements them well.

Write and maintain an Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) yearly for each scholar on the teachers’ caseload

Work collaboratively with LS and classroom teachers to assign grades and craft report card comments

Communicate and receive feedback on goals with classroom teachers

A list of scholars will be provided on the LS teachers caseload this needs to be continually reviewed

Create a snapshot, a mini profile of each scholar on the caseload prior to the start of the year

Know and understand the scholar’s profile (academic, social, emotional, medical)

Engage with community in after-school activities

Engage with community in open communication