Secondary Esol ELA Teacher- Northeast High School (2024-2025)

KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Job Description

Job Title: Secondary ESOL ELA Teacher

Job Title Code: 870

Salary Grade: T01 -T06

Department: Language Services

Reports To: Building Principal

FLSA Status: Exempt

Date Prepared: Reviewed 2023

PURPOSE OF JOB: Teachers sheltered content (English) to ELL students by performing the following duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONDIBILITIES:

Instructs students by lecturing, demonstrating, using audiovisual aids, and other materials to supplement presentations.

Adapts content and modifies assignments to accommodate students' language proficiency level.

Prepares course objectives and outlines for course of study following curriculum guidelines or requirements of state and school.

Assigns lessons and corrects homework.

Keeps attendance records.

Maintains discipline in classroom.

Confers with parents to discuss student's progress and concerns,

Participates in faculty and professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops.

Performs related duties as assigned.

Assist students with adjustment and academic problems.

SUCCESS FACTORS:

Demonstrated experience and/or training with current techniques and skills to teach English Learners at the middle school level and literacy proficiency.

Experience teaching in an urban setting with refugees and immigrants.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree in Secondary Education from a U.S. four year college or university

Missouri certification in subject area (ENGLISH) and ESOL certification.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job requires that the employee be able to: sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, use hands, fingers, reach with hands and fingers; bend, stoop, lift objects of at least ten pounds. Job requires the employee occasionally to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Visual ability requires mono and color vision, close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.