OMS English Language Acquisition Teacher

Oms English Language Acquisition Teacher

The EL teacher will work closely with ELL students, staff, and families to ensure high quality academic instruction, accommodations, assessments, and events are in place. Qualifications include a culturally/linguistically diverse endorsement, or license to teach English language learners. Fluency in Spanish is preferred but not required. The candidate should be technology savvy and have teaching experience. The teacher reports to the principal, administration, district EL coordinator, and communicates with K-12 EL teachers.

Performance will be evaluated in accordance with school board policy and procedures for evaluation of certified/licensed staff. Professional/ethical responsibilities include training for and administering the WIDA ACCESS 2.0 & Colorado Screener, documentation of designation & redesignation for October count and CDE, creating EL plans and sharing with OMS staff, writing EL parent letters of acceptance of the program and meeting with parents to sign, implementing a research-based curriculum to EL students in a classroom setting with direct instruction, knowing and applying CDE guidelines for ELs, knowing federal and state laws that pertain to EL students, progress monitoring student growth and adjusting instruction as needed.

Requirements, knowledge, skills, and abilities include the ability to communicate with parents, content area teachers, and the counseling department, knowing WIDA language standards and the four domains of language proficiency and implementation, collaborating with the English department and applying state/national standards to instruction, collaborating with content area teachers on accommodations, collaborating & coordinating class schedules with the counseling department, collaborating with EL paraprofessional, connecting students & families to community services and higher education opportunities, organizing family events, knowledge of current teaching methods and educational pedagogy, as well as differentiated instruction based upon student learning styles, knowledge of English grammar, word usage, word denotations and connotations, spelling, literature and other content areas taught, knowledge of data information systems, data analysis and the formulation of action plans, knowledge of applicable federal and state laws regarding education and students, ability to use computer network systems and software applications as needed, ability to organize and coordinate work, ability to communicate effectively with students and parents, ability to engage in self-evaluation with regard to performance and professional growth, ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others contacted in the course of work.

Physical and mental demands, work hazards include working in standard office and school building environments.