Language teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Language teacher in details. A complete job description concludes Language teacher key duties/responsibilities, Language teacher job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of Language teacher duties:

1. Planning, developing and implementing instructional activities which promote the use of English literacy for academic achievement in the content areas, and the use of English in culturally and socially appropriate ways.
2. Communicating knowledge and skills to ESL/ELL students in an interesting, stimulating and effective manner in conjunction with the classroom teacher and appropriately tailoring instruction so that students will be able to effectively participate in the English Language arts curriculum.
3. Utilizing a variety of instructional methodologies and curriculum resources geared specifically towards ELL students.
4. Working as a team member, sharing common planning, professional development, curriculum design, and teaching responsibilities.
5. Prioritizing the instruction of English Language Learners in English Acquisition.
6. Administering different forms of student assessments and planning instruction for students based on the data from the assessments. Specifically, understanding the English Language Proficiency benchmarks and outcomes in order to distinguish between the expected benchmarks for students at each level of English Acquisition: Beginner, Early Intermediate, Intermediate and Transitioning.
7. Facilitating and participating in Transition meetings for students who meet the minimum expectations for leaving ELL services.
8. Attending school based meetings, as needed and pertinent English Language Learner professional development sessions.
9. Completing necessary paperwork regarding the identification, progress monitoring and transitioning of English Language Learners in each school.
10. Ensuring the progress of ELL students regularly receiving instruction improves on the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment, when compared to the score from the previous Spring, or the previous Fall, if the student was new.
11. Providing support and sharing information with school staff on ESL/ELL matters.

II. List of Language teacher qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree and MA Teacher Certification in English as a Second Language required
2. Must have appropriate credentials such as valid teaching certification and be highly qualified as designated by the State DOE
3. Must demonstrate competency in all areas of content responsibility and be computer literate
4. Must have experience with standardized testing and interpreting data

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.