Baystate Academy Charter Public School - Springfield, MA
posted 4 days ago
About the position
BACPS is seeking dynamic, talented, and dedicated ESL teachers to join our team for the 2024-2025 school year. Teachers will serve as the primary teacher in a single subject area, collaborate with grade-level teams to implement an inquiry-based, standards-based curriculum, and serve as Crew Leaders to a crew (group of students.) Teachers will participate in continuous assessment of students including ongoing targeted feedback, student-led conferences, and end-of-unit exhibitions. Teachers will collaborate with the school principal, dean of students, and curriculum coach in designing project-based expeditions as well as family workshops and events, and be responsible for implementing and integrating new policies and services that support the school's mission and instructional objectives.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct ESL instruction to small groups of students and/or provide inclusion support for ELA and History classes containing ELL students, based on caseload.
- Work specifically with ELL students during assigned periods of the day on helping to access the general education curriculum and build ELA skills.
- Support student use of additional technology-enhanced learning tools to support ELL students' language acquisition.
- Advise teachers on modifying/accommodating curriculum for ELL students and share best practices to ensure high-quality sheltered content instruction is provided.
- Be an active member of the Baystate State Academy Charter Public School community.
- Demonstrate a relentless drive to improve the growth of minds, characters & lives of students both in and out of school.
- Show unwavering commitment to urban youth achieving greatness.
- Create a positive, structured learning environment to ensure that students observe the school's core values, high expectations, and strict code of conduct.
- Use assessment data to refine the curriculum and inform instructional practices.
- Provide consistent rewards and/or consequences for student behavior to ensure that students observe the school's core values, high expectations, and strict code of conduct.
- Share responsibility for grade-level and school-wide activities.
- Exhibit resilience to persevere and turn challenges into opportunities.
- Focus constantly on student learning, thinking critically and strategically to respond to student learning needs.
- Communicate effectively with students, families, and colleagues.
- Engage families in their children's education.
- Commit to continual professional growth, participating actively in department meetings, faculty meetings, and other meetings.
- Participate in annual two-week staff orientation and training.
- May perform other projects and duties as directed by the principal.
- Develops with parents and students a cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and objectivity.
- Holds parent/student/teacher conferences in a manner consistent with BACPS guidelines.
- Participates in all professional development activities.
- Participates in all staff meetings including school governance.
- Demonstrates awareness of school/community needs and initiates activities to meet those identified needs.
- May perform other projects and duties as directed by the principal.
- Administer diagnostic and state-mandated assessments of English Language Learners.
- Evaluate, determine goals for, and track the progress of individual English language learners, and communicate with faculty, students, and families.
- Maintain ELL records in accordance with DESE standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree is required; a Masters degree is preferred.
- MA ESL certification is required. (Candidates who are in process of acquiring their license will be considered)
- Bilingual English/Spanish desirable.
Benefits
- Up to $2,000 Sign-on bonus
- ESL MTEL Preparation Course
