What are the responsibilities and job description for the ESOL Teacher (Itinerant Position) position at York School District 1?
Job Goal:
To teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.
Performance Responsibilities:
- Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
- Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
- Assists the ESOL teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
- Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
- Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by teacher.
- Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the ESOL teacher.
- Guides students with group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and conversing.
- Supervises testing, homework and make-up work, as assigned by the classroom teacher.
- Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
- Guides students to increase their oral and written communication skills.
- Alerts the principal to any problem or special information about an individual student.
- Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the ESOL teacher.
- Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
- Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned.
Specific Job Requirements:
- Must possess and utilize excellent team building skills.
- Must accept delegated responsibilities willingly.
- Must be able to work under occasional stress.
- Must have own car to provide itinerant services
Terms of Employment:
2018-2019 school year. Salary and
work year established by the School Board.
Evaluation:
Performance of this job evaluated in accordance
with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Support
Services Personnel.