EAL Specialist

Job Description

Employer:
Nansha College Preparatory Academy


Location:
Job Location
China

Position Title: EAL Specialist

Reports to the Director of English as an Additional Language

School description: GUIS-NCPA is an English immersion secondary school for Chinese students located in the Nansha district of Guangzhou. We are a fully accredited (WASC) school with 19 Advanced Placement offerings, and a curriculum based on the US Common Core standards. We believe all teachers are language teachers, regardless of discipline. As a guiding framework for achieving the GUIS-NCPA mission, NCPA adheres to Stanford University’s Six Key Principles for Teaching English Language Learners. All classes are taught in English, except for Chinese literature. The EAL Specialist co-plans and co-teaches with the content teachers to ensure students learn English alongside the academic content of the course.

Overall Responsibilities

* Promote positive and productive relationships and communication between colleagues, and other stakeholders.    

* Support and model the NCPA Mission and lead through the norms of collaboration.   

* Co-teach in an assigned subject area ensuring language is integrated and developed alongside content skills and knowledge 

* Create language objectives for each unit of study aligned to the WIDA 2020 Standards and course content standards

* Use common planning time to co-plan lessons and learning experiences that help students meet the language objectives

* Use individual planning time to create scaffolds and supports to make content accessible and provide challenge to students at a range of English proficiency levels

* Use co-teaching models to provide whole-class, small group and targeted individual support to students 

* Administer WIDA assessments and use results to plan instruction, in collaboration with content teachers   

* Interpret data from both formal and informal assessments to improve student language growth

* Provide Office Hours support before and after school 

* Provide intervention support to students identified by Student Response System 

* Other responsibilities as described in the school’s EAL Handbook

Qualifications:  

* Professional experience as an EAL/ESOL/ESL instructor

* Bachelor’s degree in English Language Acquisition, Linguistics, Literacy or equivalent program; a master’s degree is preferred. 

Please note that due to visa restrictions, NCPA cannot employ teachers who will be 60 years old or older on the first day of the initial contract with the school.

Nansha College Preparatory Academy

Job Location
China

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