Ell Teacher - Chicago, United States - Instituto del Progreso Latino

Instituto del Progreso Latino

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Chicago, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

ELL Teacher (IHSCA)

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Instituto Health Science Career Academy along with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has set ambitious goals to ensure that every child-in every school and every neighborhood—has access to a world-class learning experience from birth, resulting in graduation from high school college
- and career-ready. In alignment with CPS/ISBE, our school strives to provide high quality and specially designed instructional supports and services for all students with disabilities within the least restrictive environment. We work collaboratively with the goal of improving the academic achievement of all students with disabilities by ensuring they receive meaningful and relevant access to grade level core instruction within the school. Teachers provide appropriate, effective, and culturally relevant instruction for grades 9-12 aligned to SAT, AVID College Readiness, and state standards. IHSCA ensures that students are provided a safe learning environment that supports student social-emotional growth as well as academics.

The English Language Learner Teacher provides instruction to high school students (9th - 12th ) in the ELL Program.

The goal of this position is to guide English Language Learners toward gaining proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

This position reports to the Bilingual Coordinator.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide ELL instruction to students in grades 9th 12th.
Assist in administering required language proficiency and academic achievement tests for determining placement for students along with ongoing monitoring of student progress.
Assist in developing appropriate curriculum to help ELL students acquire the English language.
Employ a variety of instructional techniques and teaching strategies to meet different aptitudes and interests of students, including whole group (coteaching)/ smallgroup or individual learning.
Establish and maintain communication with parents of students in the program.
Engage parents and families in their student's learning and acting as an ambassador for the school in the community.
Participate in department meetings
Contribute productively to the school as a whole.
Participate in inservice and staff development activities and staff meetings as required or assigned.
Attend IEP, Section 504, or other related meetings necessary for student assessment and/or compliance with federal and/or state law.
Attend and participate in established traditional schoolsponsored activities (i.e, backto school night, open house, and other activities customarily attended by classroom teachers and/or faculty members), which may be outside of regular school hours.
Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in education
Professional educator's license (preferred)
Must be ESL/Bilingual endorsed/certified
Two years teaching experience in bilingual education
Technologically literate including using Microsoft Office is required
Ability to maintain a high sense of confidentiality
Ability to work with a diverse group of people
Ability to work as a member of a team
Exceptional organization and time management skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills, bilingual English/Spanish preferred
Dependability and punctuality
Ability to adhere to deadlines, react to unpredictable events quickly and efficiently, be resourceful, manage conflict and challenges
Advanced skills with Microsoft Office
The above is intended to describe the general conditions of and requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities and requirements_.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Nature of work requires an ability to operate standard business office equipment. Requires ability to communicate and exchange information, collect, compile and prepare work documents, as well as setup and maintain work files.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Majority of work performed in a general office environment. Position requires availability for extended hours plus nontraditional hours may be required to perform job duties. Also requires participation and attendance at organization sponsored events and meetings.
Instituto Health Science Career Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer