Cherry Creek School District - Aurora, CO
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Entry Level
Aurora, CO
Educational Services
About the position
The ELS Specialist at Ponderosa Elementary School plays a crucial role in supporting culturally and linguistically diverse learners by ensuring they have equitable access to learning opportunities. This position involves collaboration with school administration and the district's English language support team to enhance the academic and social English skills of multilingual learners through co-teaching and tailored instruction.
Responsibilities
- Build capacity so that all teachers are equipped to design and deliver linguistically appropriate instruction all day, every day.
- Collaborate and co-teach with mainstream classroom teachers.
- Assess and progress monitor the language development and academic performance of multilingual learners in conjunction with mainstream classroom teachers.
- Serve as a building resource for administrators and classroom teachers.
- Serve as an advocate for multilingual learners and their families.
- Ensure that multilingual learners receive English language development appropriate for their level of English proficiency and embedded within content.
- Model, support and promote rigorous instruction and high standards for multilingual learners.
- Connect and collaborate with administrators, families and students.
Requirements
- 1 to 3 years classroom experience
- Colorado Department of Education (CDE) teaching license
- CDE Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (CDLE) (grades K-12) endorsement
- Knowledge, experience, training and willingness to foster and promote sheltered instruction and explicit language development in mainstream classrooms throughout the school.
- Familiarity and working knowledge and application of both the Colorado English Language Proficiency (CELP- also known as WIDA standards) and Colorado Academic Standards (CAS).
Nice-to-haves
- Experience, skills and ability in program development and coordination, organizational leadership, team-building and problem solving.
- Experience working with multilingual learners from various language backgrounds.
- Experience as an elementary mainstream/classroom teacher preferred.
- Experience with co-teaching and/or sharing equal responsibility for planning, instructing, and assessing students preferred.
- Experience using various approaches to co-teaching based on student needs preferred.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health savings accounts
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment
- Long term disability
- Critical illness insurance
- Accident insurance
