Elementary ESL Teacher (2) - Special Services

SUMMARY:

• Provides each English Learner (EL) with the individually tailored help, counsel, and learning experience he/she needs to make progress toward educational goals established with the individual's limitations in mind.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Determines specific second language needs, skill deficiencies, or social adjustment difficulties of students and initiates remediation programs in these areas.

• Provides students with tutoring for all classes.

• Evaluates such students in terms of initial needs and progress toward remediation.

• Prepares progress reports and year-end evaluations, administering pre-tests and post-tests as appropriate and necessary.

• Makes available a wide range of teaching materials and equipment, including reading materials at many levels, instructional games, resource materials, etc.

• Counsels students in identifying and dealing with their academic and social problems.

• Establishes and maintains standards of individual student behavior.

• Works closely with other teachers to help the students maintain satisfactory classwork, homework, and behavior.

• Helps parents to understand the specific problems of educationally handicapped students and the goals and operation of the program, appraising them of problems and progress.

• Participates in the selection and evaluation of students for admission to the program of education for such students.

• Participates in case conferences about educationally handicapped students.

• Performs basic attendance accounting and similar record-keeping functions pertinent to the educationally handicapped program.

• Keeps abreast of new developments in the field by reading journals and publications, attending professional society meetings, seminars, etc., and discussing problems of mutual interest with others in the field.

• Transports district materials to specific buildings.

• Travels between buildings.

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Other duties as assigned.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

• 9-Month Contract

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Certificate, license, or other legal credential required. Degree(s) required and area of major study. Related experience required/desired. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the board may find appropriate and acceptable.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of students, parents, and the general public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, & REGISTRATIONS:

• Alabama certification with appropriate endorsement.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to hear, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 35 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

• The employee occasionally works outside and is exposed to heat, cold, and dampness.

SALARY:

• Salary schedules are found on the main Decatur City Schools website, available here. (Please right-click and select Open in New Tab to view our salary schedules.)

• Listed below are items that may be necessary to complete your employment process in order to compute your annual salary. It is your responsibility to provide us with this requested information in order to receive your accurate salary.

• We need verification of previous public school teaching experience. Use the following information when requesting verification of experience from your past employment at other boards of education:

  • Within the state of Alabama, experience must be verified on Supplement EXP

  • Outside the state of Alabama, we must have a letter (on school district letterhead) or public school district form showing beginning and ending dates stating your years of service and position held while employed

  • Credit is awarded for public school experience only, private, parochial, or similar experience will not be accepted

  • Experience must be full time at least 50%-100% of the academic year

  • Administrative credit will be awarded only for experience in the same position, i.e., principal for principal position as stated in the salary schedule

  • Transfer Sick Leave: If you have sick leave from another state school system or from another state of Alabama agency, you must have a Sick Leave Transfer form sent from your previous employer to our Human Resources department

• The Decatur City Board of Education awards a salary based on the highest degree earned, even if the degree is outside education. The degree must be verified on an official transcript & recognized by the Alabama State Department of Education.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee(s) within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of an employee(s) for this job.

The Decatur City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, sex, religion, national origin, or age in its programs, activities, or employment and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The Title IX Coordinator for Decatur City Schools is responsible for handling inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies. The Title IX Coordinator can be reached by calling the Decatur City Board of Education at (256) 552-3000.