Multi-Lingual Learning Teacher

Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science•New York City, NY

11d•$75,000 - $115,000

About The Position

The Multilingual Learner (MLL) Teacher role is first and foremost a strong classroom teacher and advocate that supports students in developing their language proficiency across listening, speaking, reading, and writing in order to access and master content area standards. The MLL Teacher promotes a positive classroom culture and practices ownership over their space and their caseload of students through relationship building, cultural context understanding, knowledge of families, and advocacy to support students academic, social, emotional, and cognitive growth. The Multilingual Learner Teacher role promotes the CSH S.C.O.R.E. Values in full and strives for growth and excellence in their role as it relates to CSH mission and vision.

Requirements

Have a Bachelors degree (Certification in ESOL teaching is preferred)
Have Knowledge of federal, state, and local ELL laws, regulations, and frameworks.
Proficiency in NYSESLAT exam compliance and standards.
Experience in providing NYSESLAT exam preparation to students.
Demonstrated success in supporting student improvement in grades and exam scores (e.g., NYSESLAT)

Nice To Haves

Have three years of experience in instructing English Language Learner (ELL) students preferred

Responsibilities

Support multilingual learning through strong classroom instruction
Know your subject matter well and develop strong familiarity with standards and external assessments in your courses.
Plan clear, rigorous lessons that build foundational language acquisition skills, support vocabulary development, and promote fluency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Design formative and summative assessments aligned to end of year goals (and any external exams).
Review student work and student data and use it to plan.
Know student learning levels and needsunderstanding students' proficiency levels as well as any students with IEPs and multilingual needs.
Collaborate with teachers to support ELL student growth in ENL class, build on skills across Humanities classes.
Ensure the classroom is physically safe.
Communicate and uphold clear and consistent classroom expectations (intellectual and behavioral).
Build a classroom culture that is welcoming and promotes shared respect and student engagement.
Ensure that students meet school-wide expectations in academic settings.
Build a proficient classroom culture that supports student excellence.
Be consistent, clear, engaged, caring, and patient in the classroom.
Consistently assess student understanding throughout the lesson.
Provide regular feedback to students during class, in written comments, and in the form of consistent, clear grades.
Grade assignments and update the gradebook according to our CSH grading policy.
Establish clear roles and student groupings with your co-teacher so both teachers are actively engaged with students during the lesson.
Check in with students who are disengaged (not listening, focused, head down)
Adjust daily lessons at the moment when many students become disengaged or confused.
Collaborate with teachers and service providers to schedule and deliver mandated hours of instruction and support through push-in and pull-out services for English-Language Learner (ELL) classified students.
Collaborate with colleagues to help ELL students access and engage with content in all of their classes.
Support student language development to ensure growth, preparation for, and success on the annual NYSESLAT exam.
Conduct regular assessment (diagnostic, interim, etc.) in order to understand language proficiency needs during the academic year as it relates to growth, mastery, and proficiency.
Collaborate with DAS, Principal, CAO, families, and applicable staff regarding student progress toward meeting mandated hours and supports needed to ensure mandated support is provided.
Monitor and track student language instruction to ensure alignment with state-mandated service hour requirements.
Maintain accurate records and documentation for compliance reporting and audits.