Job description
ESL Bilingual Teacher Assistant
The candidate must be a Bilingual Spanish speaker with 48 hours of creditable college credit or an AA degree.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
A Bilingual ESL Teacher Assistant (TA) is a knowledgeable para-professional in the school-based Title III program. The primary responsibility of a Bilingual ESL TA is to assist ESL teachers with implementing the language instruction educational program within the school. This includes serving English Language Learners (ELLs) throughout the school in various contexts using various services and techniques with the ESL teacher's planning, direction, and support. As members of the Title III team, Bilingual ESL TAs help assure ELL students have a rigorous, relevant, accessible, and appropriate educational opportunity regardless of race, language, disability, or national origin. Bilingual ESL TAs also provide school-level translation and interpreting services to help facilitate home-school communication with families whose first language is not English (in our county, these families are 95% Spanish speaking).
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the general direction of the school's ESL Teacher, in conjunction with the school Principal, a Bilingual ESL TA performs the following services, which include but are not limited to the following examples of duties and functions:
- Provides classroom instructional assistance in the English as a second language classroom.
- Provides instructional services such as tutoring and student mentoring/advising to ELLs under the direction of the ESL teacher, who works with the content area teacher.
- Works with small groups or individual ELLs in content area subjects with guidance and planning from content teachers to support language development and content knowledge.
- Maintains appropriate data and logs on services rendered to ELLs that do not attend ESL classes, for whom they provide instructional services and support.
- Interprets verbal communications between school personnel and Spanish-speaking parents.
- Translates written communications between school personnel and Spanish-speaking parents.
- Maintains appropriate data and logs on interpreting and translating services rendered.
- Maintains knowledge of current laws, regulations, and best practices about interpreting/translating and instructing ELLs through attendance at meetings and workshops.
- Uses appropriate technology tools to help ESL teachers carry out Title III program compliance measures (e.g., ELLevations Database, Microsoft Excel).
- Assists ESL teachers with paperwork and record keeping for Title III compliance.
- Serves as test administrator or proctor for annual English language proficiency testing.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
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