Hybrid ESOL Teacher bei Somerset County Public Schools

A full time opening will be available for the 2025-2026 school year at Washington Academy & High School. 

Summary

Is responsible for assisting students in obtaining English Language Proficiency resulting in academic success by implementing instruction in a manner consistent with the goals and mission of Somerset County Public Schools including understanding, modeling, developing, selecting and modifying instructional plans and materials to meet the needs of the students.  Individuals will assist students in making the cultural and linguistic transition as smoothly as possible by enhancing knowledge of social, academic and cultural practices.

1. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: Other duties may be assigned by the Building Principal, Instructional Supervisor, or other administrators.

• Provides rigorous and appropriate instruction in Language Acquisition to Multilingual Learners (MLs) that supports the acceleration of English speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills and appropriate academic content and is aligned with the Maryland College and Career Readiness Standards along with English Language Development Standards
• Screen potential ML students for placement in the English Language Development Program
• Analyzes data to target instruction, enhance student learning, and to inform recommended effective teaching practices.
• Assists teachers and school leadership teams in utilizing, analyzing and reporting on a variety of on-going, instructionally based assessment approaches to inform and differentiate instruction.
• Implements all the procedures of the Multilingual Learners Program as prescribed by MSDE and SCPS.
• Maintains appropriate and required documentation on every Multilingual Learner 
• Makes recommendations to administration and staff about the types of accommodations, adaptations, special resources, courses, classes and classroom adjustments that are appropriate for each Multilingual Learner. Maintains appropriate documentation supporting the recommendations.
• Makes recommendations about the appropriate accommodations for all types of formal assessment through the school’s leadership team and communicates those recommendations to parents and staff. Maintains appropriate documentation supporting the recommendations.
• Serves as a language specialist by maintaining a high knowledge base of the latest research, laws, most effective practices, and issues in the field.
• Serves as liaison between the Multilingual Learners, his/her family and the school, especially with respect to cultural and language differences, and providing cross-cultural information to all parties that foster positive relationships.
• Monitors Multilingual Learners’ progress in all aspects of their academic schedule and their participation in all school activities and programs and promotes or advocates for their participation as appropriate.
• Provides on-going staff development as is necessary and/or requested on the language acquisition, best strategies, accommodations, the latest research, and most effective practices in teaching MLs
• Serves as a consultant for purposes of referrals to other programs such as content related interventions, Special Education, Gifted and Talented, extended programs, extra curricular activities and others to assure fair representation of Multilingual Learners.
• Participates in professional learning opportunities that enhance one’s own knowledge of the curriculum in order to know how to plan complementary lessons and support for MLs.
• Participates in all meetings within a school where representation of Multilingual Learners is needed and appropriate such as school councils, grade level meeting, curriculum meeting, School Improvement Teams and faculty meetings, etc.
• Maintains on-going communication with all teachers, ESOL paraprofessional and/or tutors of the Multilingual Learners maintains a positive, nurturing, collaborative and consultative-type relationship.
• Coordinates the work and schedules of any ML paraprofessionals and/or tutors